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Putnam County having to postpone presenting its preliminary plat for the new county bus garage at the Cookeville Planning Commission.
The new bus garage is set to be off of Tennessee Avenue. County Mayor Randy Porter said the engineer asked for the postponement after running into issues with TVA.
“So we’re in the process of getting all those plans finished and getting those out to bid,” Porter said. “One of the things that has to happen is, is there are TVA lines that run across a section of the property and we have to get TVA’s approval on the plans to make sure they’re okay with it.”
Porter said once it receives TVA and Cookeville Planning Commission approval the project will be ready to go out to bid.
Porter said he is hopeful the project will go out to bid within 30 days of approval. He said the county commission had already approved and budgeted for the project.
“The current bus garage is on Jefferson and that’s a highly trafficked road,” Porter said. “So our busses had some trouble getting in and out. Plus, the facility itself is pretty old.”
