The Greene County Commission faces a short agenda at its regular monthly meeting on Monday, which may set the stage for yet another effort to maintain certification for the Greene County Detention Center.

The county commission has held two workshops on the subject andGreene County officials face a Dec. 3 deadline for announcing a plan to address overcrowding at the Greene County Detention Center, or jail.

The most recent workshop, on Monday, failed to produce a resolution to address inmate overcrowding.

Last spring, the Tennessee Corrections Institute (TCI), which inspects the state's county jails, approved a plan for converting an existing exercise area in the detention center to a "pod" with cells to house 30-some female inmates.

At the time plans for that work were approved, jail inspector Melody Gregory also told county officials that a long-term plan to address inmate overcrowding also needed to be in place by the end of this year.

Greene County officials never moved ahead on plans to convert the pod.

Sheriff Steve Burns told committees studying needs for the detention center that the estimated $300,000 to $400,000 to convert the pod would be "throwing good money after bad" if the county's long-range plan turned out to call for a new detention center on a new site.

County Mayor Alan Broyles said at the end of Monday's workshop that he plans to travel to Nashville to address the TCI board, and tell of the county's efforts, in hopes of maintaining state certification.

The only action items on the agenda provided Monday to commissioners are four budget-related resolutions, all recommended by the budget committee.

One resolution, also recommended by the school board and education committee, would make changes in the county school system's budget related to state-funded teacher raises.

The resolution includes a $181,499 increase from the state for the bonuses, and a $72,376 increase in state funding for special education students that require additional services.

Increased funding for pre-kindergarten equipment accounts for $51,391, and an additional $27,000 for an after-school program at McDonald Elementary School and $10,000 for a school health grant are also included.

Another resolution, if ratified by the full commission, would reimburse Lloyd Cutler for property taxes he paid on land purchased at a county tax sale in 2000 that should not have been offered in the sale.

County Mayor Alan Broyles told the budget committee that the county is under a court order to make the reimbursement.

According to the resolution, on Jan. 7, 2007, Cutler filed suit against County Trustee Dan Walker seeking reimbursement of the purchase price, fees, costs and property taxes "as well as interest resulting from his purchase of a parcel of land at the tax sale for Greene County on Jan. 10, 2000.

The resolution states that the sale of the property "was in error" and was later set aside. The resolution directs that Cutler be paid $3,977.

A resolution is on the agenda to use $5,100 in the Solid Waste Department's budget for concrete pads needed for installation of large trash compactors at garbage collection convenience centers. The resolution also adds $1,700 for increases in the cost of electricity used at the centers.

Another resolution would enable the county government to accept and spend a $470 reimbursement for damage to landscaping when a truck driver headed for the John Deere Power Products plant mistook the new driver license station for the Deere entrance.