The Morristown City Council---after months and months of repeated postponements---belatedly scheduled the Koch Foods appeal hearing for 6:00 PM earlier tonight.
Three or four residents of the Roe Junction area that is most affected by sewer odors and overflows were already there when I arrived about 5:55 PM.
Shortly afterwards, the council adjourned, and the entire council left the room. We waited and waited and waited.
Then City Attorney Dick Jessee came out and motioned for the attorney for Koch Foods to come back with Jessee.
Finally, roughly around 6:40, the council came back to the meeting area with City Administrator Jim Crumley and City Attorney Dick Jessee.
The meeting came to order, and Jessee announced that there was an agreement between the parties. Mel Tucker made a motion to accept the agreement, and the vote was 6-0 to accept.
[Councilman Frank McGuffin had left earlier and didn't take part in the hearing]
Without admitting guilt, Koch Foods dropped its appeal, and the long-awaited appeal hearing was over.
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