Back in September, apparently acting all on his own, Lenoir City mayor, Tony Aikens, decided to cut the city's funding to the Loudon County 911 Emergency Communications. According to Aikens letter below, he cut the funding out because of "the litigation going on between commissioner Van Shaver and Lenoir City." Of course, that's absurd.

At a previous council meeting, on October 23rd, there was no mention of the funding cut but it was learned later that Aikens hadn't bothered to tell, at least some if not all, of the council members of his unilateral decision to cut the funding. Given that, last week I sent every council person a copy of the mayor's letter cutting the funding to be sure they knew. Since the matter of the funding cut isn't on tonight's agenda, apparently, council must not be concerned about the funding cut.

It is unfortunate that the mayor and council now, apparently, just aren't concerned about the safety of their police officers.  

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