Help Save the Fairgrounds/Race Track

If you have read the newspaper or watched the news there could be a great injustice going on at the [Nashville, TN] Fairgrounds/Race Track. They (city) are trying to take your Fair Grounds and sell it to a Developer and move your State Fair and you the people of the State of TN that is your property and you have a say on if you want the Fair to Stay or Go. You the people of the State of TN need to tell the Fair Board to leave your property alone. And leave the State Fair right where it is. And fix it up. The City/State does not need to burden on the tax payers to move the Fairgrounds. Because, if they move the Fairgrounds the property taxes around the Fairgrounds property will go up. No, this is not right at all.

According to the City Charter the Fair Board can not sell that property and could be a great injustice being done to the people of the State of TN. Where you need to look in the City Charter is Administration Fair Board Commissioners Acts of 1909 Chapter 490 Section 7 and this was passed 1909.

COMPILER'S NOTE: This general law established the Board of Fair Trustees of the State of
Tennessee. Sections 2 and 7 directly pertain to Davidson County.

SECTION 2. That the said Board of Fair Trustees is hereby invested with the power,
authority, and duty to take complete charge and control, in behalf of the State of Tennessee, of any
property which may hereafter be purchased by Davidson County and conveyed or leased by Davidson
County to the State of Tennessee for the holding thereon of a State Fair, and they shall use and
maintain said property by holding thereon at least once a year for not less than six days a fair or
exposition for the benefit of the people of Tennessee, at which shall be exhibited, as far as possible,
the resources and developments of the State of Tennessee and the progress of its people in all kinds
of enterprise and endeavor. ...

SECTION 7. That should any property be conveyed or leased by Davidson County to the
State of Tennessee as aforesaid, for the purpose of holding thereon said annual fairs, the said Board
of Fair Trustees shall use and maintain said property for the purpose set forth in this Act, and should
said property, without good and sufficient cause, such as bad weather, fire, storm, pestilence war, etc.
cease to be used for the purpose herein set forth for a period of two years, beginning with the last day
of any annual fair, then and in that event said property, with all fixtures thereon, shall revert back to
and become the absolute property of the donor or conveyor, and all right, title, and interest whatever
in said property which shall have been acquired by the State of Tennessee shall become null, void, and
extinguished. This provision shall constitute a condition of the acceptance and use of said property
by the State of Tennessee. In this manner and upon this condition the State of Tennessee through
its said Board of Fair Trustees, shall accept and use such property as may be conveyed, leased, or
otherwise tendered to the State of Tennessee by Davidson County for the purpose of holding thereon
an annual State Fair; ...
Passed: May 1, 1909.

METROPOLITAN BOARD OF FAIR COMMISSIONERS
Sec. 11.602. Functions and duties.
It shall be the duty of the metropolitan board of fair commissioners to:
(a) Exercise all the powers and perform all the duties heretofore or hereafter imposed on the Board of Fair Commissioners of Davidson County, as established by chapter 490 of the Acts of Tennessee for 1909 and chapter 515 of the Private Acts of 1923 and amendments thereto.
(b) Within the limitation of its budget appropriation and funds otherwise available, employ and fix the compensation of such personnel as may be necessary.
(c) Perform such other duties as may be imposed upon the board by ordinance

The other matter is the Race Track and truthfully that is part of NASCARS History.
To all would you all please find in your heart to help us save the Race Track at the Fairgrounds here in Nashville, TN.? As some of you know they are trying to do a way with the State Fair and also the Race Track so if you like racing please sign this petition.
http://www.petitiononline.com/RaceFair/petition.html

I am just one person and I alone can not stop what could be an great injustice by myself I need the people of the State of TN to help so I call on you the people of the State of TN to stand with me and help me fight what could be an great injustice. And together we can beat the Fair Board and the City. Here is my proposal that I have sent on behalf of the people of the State of TN.
http://lewisdt.com/lpmndc/FairgroundsProposal.pdf