Metro Legal is recommending a hearing be set for Metro Fair Board Chairman Jasper Hendricks relating to an ethics complaint filed about efforts to bring NASCAR to the Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway.

The complaint was filed on Sept. 18 by four residents living near the speedway, including former Metro Councilmember Sandra Moore and local attorney John Spragens, who also founded Citizens Against Racetrack Expansion (CARE) for Nashville.

The complaint alleges that Hendricks accepted free tickets to the 2023 NASCAR awards gala, leaked a confidential speedway deal term sheet to local television station WZTV and negotiated a secret deal with Bristol Motor Speedway. The filing also notes that Hendricks accepted campaign contributions from Bristol Motor Speedway during his unsuccessful 2

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