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• The mayor's race — the current Ward 1 (North Ward) alderman is running for mayor against the former vice mayor who's been in power a long time. She has been in power a long time. One of the big issues is how much support the Town of Farragut gives to the schools — the Farragut schools: primary, middle, high school. They give very, very little. I think it's barely over $100,000 a year to the primary, middle and high school. That's ridiculous. That's a big issue in the mayor race. The current Ward 1 (North Ward) alderman and the former vice mayor need to say what they would do about funding the schools better. Knox County supports the schools. Farragut does not. That's a big issue in the mayor race between the current Ward 1 (North Ward) alderman and the former vice mayor, who's been in power a long time.
• The entrance at Boring Road to the new Farragut Primary School — the Town of Farragut needs to spend some of their millions of dollars of surplus — it wouldn't cost that much to widen Boring Road from the school entrance on Boring Road down to Kingston Pike. The Town of Farragut should do that — widen Boring Road and make the Boring Road Kingston Pike a right in, right out. It's probably too close to the other traffic signal at the shopping center to have a traffic signal at Boring Road, but it could easily be converted into a right in, right out at Boring Road. So the school children and parents have another way to get into the school other than go through the Villages or Smith Road. The Smith Road will have a lot of buses coming in at Smith Road and Boring Road, and the parents and teachers could use the Boring Road entrance off Kingston Pike. Just make it right in, right out if you could not have a traffic signal, which is probably too close to the traffic signal at the shopping center. So right in, right out at Boring Road and Town of Farragut spend some of their money. They have a lot of surplus money to help the schools. They need to help the schools more. Town of Farragut does not spend but just slightly over $100,000 on schools, which is a paltry sum, they should spend a lot more on schools. So they need to widen Boring Road and have a right in, right out at Boring Road to help these parents and teachers in the new primary school.
