By a vote of 14-to-7, Rutherford County Commissioners passed a new budget for fiscal year 2015-2016. That budget, which was passed Friday morning during a special session, includes a seven-point-eight-percent property tax increase for schools. The increase will fund the 326-point-one-million dollar budget for Rutherford County Schools. It will not only pay for new staff needed to keep up with growth in the system's 46 schools, but also a three-point-one percent pay increase. That's the county's portion to go along with what the state budgeted.

Commissioners against the budget were:

Commissioners voting in favor of the budget were:
Rhonda Allen
Carol Cook
Phil Dodd
Joe Gourley
Joe Frank Jernigan
Will Jordan
Shawn Kaplan
Mike Kusch
Steve Pearcy
Robert Peay, Jr.
Jeff Phillips
Pettus Read
Brad Turner
and Chantho Sourinho