For half the Warren County Fiscal Court, Friday was the day to say goodbye. District 2 Magistrate Terry Stahl, District 3 Magistrate Tony Payne and District 5 Magistrate Lonnie White will be out of office by the courts next meeting Jan. 10, replaced by Cedric Burnam, Eddie Beck and Terry Young, respectively. Longtime Warren County Clerk Yvonne Guy, who regularly reports to the court, is also retiring, succeeded by Dot Owens. Thus part of the meeting was taken up by farewells, photographs and congratulations from their colleagues. County Parks and Recreation Director Phil Moore presented Payne and White with plaques for their support of the parks department. Stahl, out of town, was not there to receive his. One of the last items on the courts agenda was approving the annual budget for the Warren County Sheriffs Department. Fiscal court votes are usually a unanimous chorus of Yes, but departing magistrate Payne couldnt resist one last, humorous dig at his old friend, Sheriff Jerry Peanuts Gaines. When Fiscal Court Clerk Brenda Hale called out Paynes name, he replied, No, maam, smirking at Gaines. The sheriff responded with a single, upraised finger. Thats why you leavin today, son. Goodbye, Gaines said as a ripple of laughter ran through the courthouse crowd. The budget still passed, 4-1.Gaines $3.5 million budget included a 5 percent, cost-of-living pay increase in his department. This increase can be justified in order to bring the pay scale of this department more in line with other agencies of our same size, he wrote in an attached memo to the court. The sheriff added two road deputies, one animal control deputy and two dispatchers to his budget, saying these were necessary to win certification from the FBIs National Crime Information Center, which maintains a nationwide database on criminal histories, driver’s licenses and vehicle registration, wanted or missing persons and stolen vehicles. With a department of our size it has become a must for us to become NCIC certified, Gaines wrote. Subdivisions comingSeveral new housing developments are in the works for Warren County. The court approved the first reading of an ordinance rezoning 100 acres at 1700 Grider Pond Road. If given final approval, it will allow Joe Daniel Construction Company to build 275 single-family houses there. The land is owned by Patricia Manning, Owen and Mary Lawson, James and Corine Moss, and Bob, Mary, Joe and Joy Larmon. Darrell Oliver also received the first round of approval from the court on rezoning 23.54 acres he owns at the southwest intersection of Boyce-Claypool and W.G. Talley roads so he can build about two dozen houses. Oliver proposed the zoning change in November, but was rejected by the City-County Planning Commission of Warren County. He appealed to fiscal court, then withdrew the appeal to negotiate further with the planning commission. His revised application won approval, and now should be back for final permission Jan. 10.Thirty-four homes may soon go up near Peachtree Lane. The court approved the first reading of an ordinance rezoning 19 acres with access to the street, from agriculture to single-family residential. That would let its owner, Wilford Lynn Davenport Jr., build single-family homes there. As part of the subdivision plan, Davenport has agreed to widen Peachtree Lane from the entrance of the development to the junction with Old Scottsville Road, Magistrate Doc Kaelin said. Garbage plan changesThe court approved changes to the countys solid waste disposal master plan, with several new projects extending through 2007.One goal is assembling a complete list of trash service subscribers by mid-2003 to identify those dodging mandatory garbage collection service. Residents and businesses who have not contracted with a licensed hauler by then will be notified and, if they still do not apply for service, could face fines, according to the plan. The county bids out garbage collection and recycling services to several companies, but decentralization makes it hard to track who has signed up for trash service and who has not. A possible solution, but one Reagan does not endorse, is adding the garbage fee to the annual county tax bill, he said thus ensuring that every household and business will get one. Magistrate Robert Donoho asked Reagan if people who own businesses and have garbage contracts there could legally dispose of their household trash at the business, thus avoiding a second charge for residential collection. Donoho has received numerous calls on that question, he said. Thats not permitted under the current franchise agreements, Reagan said. But that might be something to change when those county contracts come up for renewal, Buchanon added. The countys Solid Waste Advisory Committee will seek ways to eliminate the user surcharge for recycling, Reagan said. A stronger effort at recycling education is proposed. Under the revised plan, people who report illegal dump sites in Warren County may be rewarded. The county may also use aerial spotting to find dumps, with fines, public identification and criminal prosecution for illegal dumpers.