The Manchester-Coffee County Conference Center continues to lose tax payer money. For fiscal year 17-18 the center lost $366,692. Which, by the way is more than $46,000 over the approved deficit.
The conference center is also late in reimbursing the county for payroll checks.
Coffee County and Manchester governments split the cost of the center. This includes the regular budget and the overrun.
The Manchester-Coffee County Conference Center has been open since 2002 and has lost around $3 million over the last 16 years.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam and Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development Commissioner Burns Phillips on Thursday released the statewide unemployment rate for July 2018, and for the third consecutive month the statistic has held steady at 3.5 percent.
Tennessee’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate has not only remained unchanged since May, it mirrors the 3.5 percent recorded during the same time period in 2017.
Companies also continued the trend of new job creation across the state. Between June and July, Tennessee employers bolstered the state’s economy by adding 2,500 new nonfarm jobs.
Over the year, nonfarm employment in Tennessee has increased by 56,300 jobs. The largest increases occurred in the state’s leisure/hospitality, professional/business services, and education/health services sectors.

A Tennessee appeals court has ruled that Gov. Bill Haslam’s overhaul of the state’s probation system is unconstitutional, saying it violates defendant’s rights.
The Tennessean reports the court also ruled Tuesday that the overhaul encroaches on judicial powers by allowing probation officers to issue punishments to probation violators. It also said due process wasn’t being provided as defendants cannot challenge new punishments in court with an attorney.
Haslam has said those changes by the Public Safety Act of 2016 were meant to keep people from being imprisoned for low-level probation violations.
State Department of Correction Commissioner Derrick Schofield has said 40 percent of new inmates were imprisoned on those violations, which Haslam spokeswoman Jennifer Donnals says has been reduced.
A state’s attorney general’s office spokeswoman says officials are reviewing the decision.

Tennessee residents are allowed to hunt without a license on Saturday, Aug. 25 which coincides with the opening day of squirrel season.
Free Hunting Day is an event the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency annually provides in hopes of increasing interest in hunting. Squirrel hunting is one of Tennessee’s oldest and favorite traditions.
The TWRA encourages regular hunters to introduce friends and family members (young and old) to the outdoor sport. It is also an excellent opportunity for persons who have not tried hunting in a while to be reintroduced to the sport.
On Free Hunting Day, state resident hunters are exempt from hunting licenses and WMA permit requirements. Many of the WMAs are open to hunters seeking public access on Aug. 25. Hunters are asked to check the information for particular WMAs in the newly-published 2018-19 Tennessee Hunting and Trapping Guide which is available online at www.tnwildlife.org or copies are available at any TWRA regional office or at most outlets where licenses are sold.
The TWRA offers a reminder that hunter education requirements are not waived for Free Hunting Day. Anyone born on or after Jan. 1, 1969 is required to have successfully completed a hunter education course. An apprentice license is required for those born on or after Jan. 1, 1969 if the hunter education course has not been completed. This license exempts the hunter from the mandatory hunter education law for one year from the date of purchase but may only be purchased for up to three consecutive years during the lifetime of the hunter.