FSA committee recommends adjustments to LAA boundaries

Each year, the County Committees review these boundaries to determine if adjustments should be made.

‘This year, the County Committee reviewed the boundaries and determined that changes in the boundaries would help to alleviate issues regarding LAAs for voting purposes and determining which LAA a person should be registered in,’ according to Steve Stubblefield, Warren County Executive Director. ‘After reviewing a map of the entire county, the County Committee agreed to establish the local administrative area boundaries along permanent highways or permanently established boundaries. The County Committee determined the most effective boundaries would be those established along state and county highways.’

The Committee has recommended that Local Administrative Area No. 1 be established from the Warren County line, south along Hwy. 55 and following the Hwy. 55 bypass to Hwy. 56 north. Then, following Hwy. 56 South to Hwy. 8 toward Dunlap. LAA No. 1 would include the communities of Irving College, Viola, Vervilla, Fairview, Brookside and the city of McMinnville.

LAA No. 2, which now runs along an imaginary line just west of Hwy. 56 North, would, with the change, begin at the intersection of Hwy. 55 and 56 North and follow Hwy. 56 to the Warren/DeKalb County line, then east and south to Hwy. 8. LAA No. 2 would included the communities of Wayside, Highland, Campaign, Rock Island, Bone Cave, Gath and Eastside.

The boundaries for LAA No. 3 would begin at the Warren County line and travel north along Hwy. 55 then eastward to Hwy. 56 North to the Warren/DeKalb County line. The boundary would then travel south to the intersection of Hwy. 56 and the Hwy. 55 bypass. LAA No. 3 would include the communities of Centertown, Yeager, Newtown, Ivy Bluff, Crisp Springs, Morrison and Smartt.

According to the county director, these changes would have a minimum impact on producers and their voting areas, while providing a more clearly defined voting boundary for producers who may live in one local administrative area but conduct the majority of their farming operation in another area.

‘Producers and landowners who wish to review the new recommended LAA boundaries may visit the Warren County Service Center and view the county map with the proposed changes,’ Stubblefield said. ‘Producers and landowners may also submit any comments or objections to the proposed changes within 15 days of this publication to the Warren County FSA County Committee for their consideration. If no comments or recommended changes are suggested, the FSA Committee will submit these changes to the Tennessee State FSA Committee for implementation of the recommended changes.’

The proposed boundary changes may be viewed at the FSA Service Center located at 811 Faulker Springs Rd., McMinnville, during regular office hours of 8 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.