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A resolution supporting Amendment 1 on the March 5 ballot was approved by the Jefferson County Commission on Thursday, but not before two commissioners had a better knowledge of the proposal.

During the committee meeting on Tuesday, Joe Knight clarified that the change would facilitate lawmakers’ ability to approve local legislation early in the session. Legislators would be able to discuss county-specific laws before discussing the state budgets. To approve a budget isolation resolution, which permits the lawmakers to consider other legislation before the budgets, they often need the support of three-fifths of the quorum. Often, the budgets are not passed until much later in the term.

Getting a supermajority of legislators to vote on local legislation that is unpopular with their voters can be a challenging task.

Concerns were raised by Sheila Tyson and Lashunda Scales that the change would lead to party politics, giving the ruling party an easier way to pass legislation and obstruct legislation that it doesn’t want.

According to Tyson, “this will open the door for them to pass (legislation) quicker.”

“Who do you mean when you say, ‘we and they,'”? Chairman of the Commission Jimmie Stephens enquired.

“You want to call it out,” Tyson retorted, “Democrat and Republican.”

Republicans such as Knight and Stephens asserted that although they hold a supermajority in the state Legislature overall, they only hold a “razor-thin majority” in the Jefferson County delegation. They also cautioned Democrats Tyson and Scales that they were engaging in “negotiating against yourself.”

Knight invited assistant tax collector Johnny Curry of the Bessemer Division to weigh in on the discussion. From 1986 until 2002, Curry served as a state legislator for sixteen years.

Curry expressed his belief that the amendment strengthens the Jefferson County delegation’s authority to make its own decisions. “I don’t want to tell you that the Jefferson County delegation gets total control over everything because that is never the case. Republican Curry stated that he comprehends the Democrats’ worries regarding the commission. “The Republicans were inIt makes things better for you. It gives you more power and influence over more problems than you already have.

the minority for the sixteen years that I served in the Legislature,” he stated.

Stephens, Knight, and Scales voted in favor of the resolution, which carried. Mike Bolin was not present, and Tyson did not vote.

Scales declared, “Jefferson County has to prevail.” other of the things we have, like dumping and raising the amount of penalties as a penalty, might not seem like big deal to other people. That is important to us. Although it may not matter to others, maintaining these right-of-ways clean is important to us and costs money.