Franklin and Williamson County officials

The commission approves site plans and subdivision plats on its own. Every rezoning, annexation and development plan comes to it first, and the board votes after hearing its recommendation. The mayor appoints seven residents to five-year terms with the board's approval; the mayor's designee and an alderman the board selects hold the other two seats.

The County Commission adopts the county budget and sets the county property tax rate each June, approves the county's borrowing, school buildings included, and must approve any sale of Williamson Health, the county hospital system, which it voted in September to begin negotiating. Each of the county's 12 districts elects two commissioners in August of even years. The commission elected on August 6 took office on September 1, 2026; nine of its members are new.

Every motion the board voted on counts, procedure, amendments and deferrals included, and an item voted on at three readings counts three times. A consent agenda, passed in one motion, counts once. A member who was absent, left early or abstained has not cast that vote. The mayor votes only to break a tie, and there were none.

We read the minutes of every regular meeting, most of them scanned images, and checked each vote against the city's own roll-call record on its meeting portal, where each meeting's video sits beside its minutes. The minutes of August 11 and 25 and September 8 give split votes as tallies without names; those names come from the roll-call record, which agrees with the minutes wherever both name names. The minutes of October 13, 2026 are still a draft until the board approves them.

The Planning Commission is counted the same way, from its own minutes, which are also signed scans. They list who was present and give each vote as a count, naming only the commissioners who voted no, abstained or stepped aside; the city keeps no roll call for the commission. So a commission vote's yes column is everyone present who is not named otherwise, and every count the minutes print matches those names. A commissioner who recused (this year Williamson on 17 votes) has not cast that vote. We add each commission meeting from its signed minutes or, before they are posted, from the typed draft the city prints in the next meeting's agenda packet. The minutes of September 24, 2026 are still a draft until the commission approves them.

The County Commission is counted from its own minutes, which the county clerk writes and the county posts once the commission approves them. They print every recorded vote with a table naming each commissioner under yes, no, abstain or out, out meaning in the room and not voting, so the names come straight from the page. A motion there needs 13 votes, a majority of all 24 seats however many are present (state law), which is why a motion that drew 11 votes to 10 on March 9 failed. Every recorded vote counts, and at the June budget meeting each department's budget was voted on, and counts, separately. Four motions settled by voice vote with no count or names are left out: three elections of a chair and one set of board appointments. In one voice vote the minutes name only who voted no, and the yes column is everyone else in the room. For one unanimous vote they print the attendance list in place of the table, and every member present is counted as voting yes.

A county commissioner is counted only at the meetings held while they held the seat: nine members left on August 31 and nine took office the next day. The county has not posted the minutes of its May 11 meeting, so that meeting is missing from every count here. A special meeting on July 6 heard from the hospital board and took no votes. The minutes of September 9 and September 14, 2026 have not yet been approved, and the commission's October 12 meeting will be added once its minutes are posted. Three of the year's tables head the no votes' column YES; those votes say so where they appear, and the record counts the names as no votes.

How the board works explains the seats, the wards and how many votes an item needs.