City councilmen agreed at their Thursday meeting to sell an old shed that sits at Main Street and Allisona Road that was once used by the Eagleville Fire Department to the adjoining property owner.

The late Dr. E.L. Williams had sold the 20 by 28 foot lot that the building sits on to the city for $25 in 1956. Sam Tune, who owns the property that surrounds the shed on three sides, agreed to pay the city $1,500 for the building and property.

When the property was conveyed to the city, no right of way was included but the deed called for the driveway leading from the Allisona highway to the building be maintained jointly by the grantor and the grantee.

City Attorney Adam Dodd suggested the city quit claim any interest in the property rather than give a warranty deed because some questions might arise concerning the legal description in the deed of the owner of the property adjoining one side of the building.

Tune said the shed would probably disappear in the next few months once the transaction is settled because the building is in poor shape.

The council also voted to sell the yellow 1974 fire truck for $1,052 to resident David Turner, who submitted the highest bid. One other bid for $663 was submitted by Jimmy Lamb.

Much discussion was held about a mix-up concerning where to store the former police Ford Explorer vehicle that in the past has been kept outside at city hall. At the February meeting, councilmen voted to store the vehicle at the home of resident David Turner for $50 a month. Turner had agreed to donate the monthly $50 toward the city park. Fire department personnel were to move the vehicle to Turner’s home on Eagle Crest.

Fire Chief David Martin instead rented a storage place at Eagleville Mini Storage for $50 a month and moved the vehicle there.

Martin said he thought the vehicle should be "under lock and key, and it appeared it was going to be stored among other items at Turner’s residence. Turner said he did not know what location Martin evaluated because Martin had no idea where the vehicle would be stored.

"I looked at the options and it was going to be the same money and in a facility that was going to be under lock and key with surveillance and gated," Martin said.

But the cost was not the same because the $50 was to come back to the city, Councilman Ronnie Hill said. Hill indicated that the car was not worth spending any money on for storage space.

"I think that it should have been left where it was until we could decide where it would be instead of undertaking a storage deal," Hill said.

Councilman M.A. Smitty said the storage question was "too small an issue for us to discuss and it should have been an in-house issue anyway because it was just a matter of housekeeping."

Further discussion revealed that Martin had signed the mini storage agreement even though it appeared he was not authorized to do so, which he later apologized for doing. Turner said that the Eagleville Mini Storage is a fine facility but that he had not been notified about any changes in the agreement for him to store the vehicle.

Councilmen voted to rescind the motion to store the vehicle at Turner’s home and decided to move the vehicle back to city hall.

In other business, council postponed approval of a proposed procedure for inspection of the city’s public records until a question is resolved about whether the city can require those making a request to see any record to have to give their name, address, telephone numbers, driver’s license number or other appropriate identification before they can inspect the documents.

Under the provisions of the Tennessee Public Records Act, people who request to inspect law enforcement personnel records are required to provide such identifying information. However, this is the only provision of the Tennessee Code where some disclosure is required to have access to public records, according to David Conner, a County Technical Advisory Service legal consultant.

Also, councilmen voted to up park director Terry Mooneyham’s pay by $600 a year to help cover his cell phone costs because of the number of calls he is receiving from coaches, parents and others concerning the park.