Gordon Bright, Plainview Alderman, and John Sexton, firefighter, raised the flags on the new flag pole for the first time in February at the Plainview Fire Station.
Representative Dennis Powers donated the American flag, and Vice Mayor Richard Phillips contributed the Tennessee flag.
Last October, Bright reminded the Plainview Board of Aldermen that every fire station needed a flag pole with the American flag flying on it. So the board voted to purchase the pole from The Sign Guys. When the pole arrived, Bright, Sexton and Martin Shafer did the installation with Mr. Brantley of Plainview Maintenance, providing a bit of landscaping.
In February, the Plainview Planning Commission and the Design and Review Board finalized the variance to reduce the number of parking spaces and accepted the plans for the Dollar Tree/Family Dollar to be located at the corner of Tazewell Pike and Corryton Road.
The Board of Aldermen discussed adding two bays at the end of the current fire station. These two bays would be longer to accommodate the length of modern fire engines.
The next Plainview meeting will be on Tuesday, March 14. The planning commission will meet at 6:30 and the Board of Aldermen will follow at 7 p.m. A budget planning workshop will be on March 20 at 6 p.m.
The Neighborhood Watch will meet at 7 p.m. on March 16.
All meetings are at the Plainview Community Center.