City Council - Regular Meeting

Good afternoon and welcome to the meeting of the Chattanooga City Council for Tuesday, April 7th, 2026. I'd like to invite council members to lead us in the pledge of allegiance and the invocation. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you. We'd like to welcome everyone who is joining us. Um, if you are here for the first time, I want to take a minute and explain to you the way that our meetings run. Um we will take some time as a council and um go through our agenda for today and then we will go through our purchases for today and this is a council that does its homework. So then we will go over our agenda for two weeks and finally we will look at um items that we call future considerations. Those are things that will be on our agenda in 3 to four weeks so that we have plenty of time to work in advance and understand what is uh the the people of Chattanooga's business. If you are here and you want to address the council, please know that we will go through that agenda. We do have two committees today. We have a planning and zoning committee and an economic development committee. Um and then we will take a recess. Um typically during recess we will have an attorney client privilege meeting which we will do today council. Um that uh recess will be approximately probably 30 minutes and then we will that's probably what I'll decide today and then we will come back and do our vote. At the end of that we are happy to hear from members of the public who are here that would like to address us on issues related to our scope of work. and uh you would have 3 minutes and we will stay for as long as we have folks that want to talk and our attorney will handle those rules when the time comes. So that being said, thanks for joining us here today and council, let's get down to it. Um we do have an item under final reading. Um if you've got anything you'd like to say about that, please do hit your line. Councilman Clark.

Uh, Madame Chair. Oh, there we go. Sorry. Um, over the weekend I submitted amen an amendment uh to the um booting and immobilization of vehicles and I think the red line versions were sent to you all, but I'm going to actually give you pass down the physical copies. Um, when the Sorry, let me get my We're moving. See, have some for that. Do you mean three for that side? Three for that side. Uh part of the um this is going to be

when this was first introduced to us, we had questions about what consumer protection meant for those who had who are chronic violators of our uh parking policies um and what that relief would look like. Also, while not discouraging people into uh parking downtown, but also uh the opportunity to collect um in most cities, they're already implementing these re these structural repayment plans um as an incentive to a if you do come downtown and you park and you have a bunch of tickets and you're immobilized, you have the opportunity uh to pay the $75 booting fee with a 25% initial down payment and then to enter into a structure payment plan. Uh this is not um uncommon to other cities our size. Uh at that when this was initially introduced um the language was left open for the uh Carter board to decide what those rules would be like. I thought it would be best for since we were considering this um ordinance to allow the city council to codify that into legislation. And so that's what that is. Um, it allows us to create a structured repayment plan uh to allow uh citizens who have high fines that if they are in mobile, if they are booted, they they can still get their car back. We can still secure some funding um including the fee and then a 25% payment down. Um and that's all the uh amendment in um involves.

Thank you, Councilman. Uh Mr. Attorney. Um yeah and this particular ordinance I believe passed on first reading last week uh without the amendment in it. It now has a new section 24518 regarding conditional release and a payment plan here. Uh we have been in contact with the attorneys for the uh Carter folks and they do not have any objection to this new addition, but it is a significant change adding a new section to your code and I believe that it will require you to have this go back to first reading if this amendment is accepted. So u there'll need to be a motion to amend and if that occurs it would go back to first reading because you have to have two readings on two separate days pursuant to the charter.

Thank you very much Councilman Henderson. Thank you, Madam Chair. Uh, Councilman, so the or Mr. Attorney, the whole section 24-518 is what's been added because mine Yes, sir. I do not have a red line. Mine and I have a red line. I'll give you and I think Nicole has one. Is it not in that packet that I just what I was what I was handed first did not have a red line. There's one there's one in our council packet. I'm sorry. I have a whole digital council packet. I had requested that Oh, sorry. I had the red in the digital in the digital folder. There was one. I just want to make sure that they were under my folder.

Well, I've got I've got the city attorneys. I've got all the top secret information. It's it's all on there. Yes, sir. Okay, that's all that's all for now. Okay. Councilman Elliot.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Uh, Council Clark, I just want to thank you for proposing this. This is something that I do support. It allows us to put guard rails to make sure that uh some of our residents who are experiencing a little bit harder financial hardships that we can give them some buffers. So, thank you for this. I look forward to supporting it and moving forward. And Miss Ree, I did not misspe. Good. All right. No problem. the minutes can reflect a thumbs up. Uh so the board is clear right now. So um Councilman Clark, I did have one item in in item D, the payment plan requirement. Um upon release of the vehicle, the remaining balance shall be placed on a structured PL payment plan administered by the parking authority subject to the following. And there are four four things that are subject to the following. Um and so my question is really about the sustainability of this for the parking authority knowing that that parking authority is in fact um the Chattanooga parking authority Carta. Um and last week I had asked Charles I don't Charles isn't here is he? No. Um, last week I had asked Charles about does there need to be a fee to keep them revenue neutral to manage this? And um I I know that within the overall plan they are not procluded from setting a fee to manage this, but um do we have a representative from Carta that could speak to this? Okay. Um if you wouldn't mind coming up to the podium. Um, have have you read the this amendment, sir?

Yes. Okay. If you'll go ahead and state your name for our record. Yes. Commission. Brent Matthews with Carter Parking Authority. Okay. We have discussed that and we were still we were going to take that through our board and that fee. We did talk about that and we have seriously considered that.

Well, and and uh you know, I understand you all are going to be as frugal as you can. You run tight margins and I appreciate that. Uh but with this language, we would be committing Carta as the parking authority to create a system to fairly manage these these payment plans beyond the initial uh what was the what was the good what was the word you were describing um the the amnesty time I guess when you were working through you know all the delinquent fines in the six months leading up to this. So that's something that you as an organization are comfortable with handling? Yes, we were comfortable with doing the payment plans.

Okay. All right. Thank you very much. Then I as I read through this language, I feel like it's it's neither um it it's it's neither overly punitive nor um overly u wide open. Um I I think it I think it hits the the just right for a Goldilocks like me. So thank you very much. Such a big deal. Yeah. Uh Councilwoman Burrs.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Uh, I started to grab you, Brent, before you sat down, but um, when I met with when I met with Charles, we talked about um, and I think he made a note that you all would look at revisiting this after a certain time frame because I imagine once this gets into play, kind of along the same lines of what you're saying, Chairwoman Hill, is it looks good on paper, but the enforcement of it, it almost sounds like another job or another position. So, yes, ma'am. Sorry.

I'm just That's okay. I'm wondering I'm wondering what the the time frame the reasonable time frame would be to bring this back for, you know, for review to bring it back to the council to say this is this is working, this is not working. Like Charles talked about when he did his presentation, we talked about coming back in six months with a you know, with an analysis of what we had done. I think that would probably be a fair time for us to Okay. if we make changes for us to come back and bring changes in if that's okay with the council.

Okay. Yeah. I mean, I'm I'm definitely in favor of the amendment as well. Always when we when we create things like this, I think about it looks good on paper, but in the real world, is it manageable? So, you know, I'll be interested to hear in six months how that's happening in real time. Okay. So, thank you. Thanks. Appreciate it.

Thank you. Madame clerk, will you please make a note in the minutes that um we need to uh put a note on a calendar to reach out to Carta in five months about setting up a special presentation six months from now. Thank you. Okay. Do we have anybody else that um has any questions or comments about this item? Seeing none, we will keep on keeping on here. Okay, we have some items. Uh we have one item under first reading. It is a right-of-way um abandonment. Do you have any questions or comments on that? That is in district district five.

I'm good on that. Okay, super. Um we have some items under resolutions uh for city council, some board appointments, economic development, family justice center. We have three appointments from the mayor, office of community health. Uh, we do have a handful of items from public works council. Councilman Clark or Councilman Elliott, excuse me.

Um, Ellis, this may be a question for you and I meant to ask you this the other day. These appointments to the airport board, are they um in any way going to be impacted by this new proposed law or would these appointments be grandfathered in? Uh, it's unclear at this time. We just have to proceed with business as usual until we know different. Okay. Sorry. And I meant to call you. We were we've been playing phone tag all week. All right. So, this was a question for you. So, no problem. That's all. Okay. Thank you, Councilman Clark. Uh, this is this might be a question for Councilwoman Doyle regarding the appointment of Chrissy Rashid.

Uh, and maybe this is an education for me, but when we're making a Well, first of all, Chrissy Rashid lives in my district. Um, are the rules for board appointments, especially for the board of zoning? Uh, do we make appointments of people who don't live in our districts to other areas such as that? Is that I know certain rule certain boards require that. Is this not the requirement for this board? Uh, I'm sure Chris can answer that question. Good afternoon. Uh Chris Anderson, mayor's office. Uh Councilman, you raised a very good point. Of our 50 boards and commissions, there are a handful that require residency in specific districts to serve in the role. The board of zoning appeals is not one of those boards, but some do. But it it is appointed by the council. But say Councilman Henderson from district 1 can appoint anyone he wants to represent district one or or represent him on the board of zoning appeals. They have always lived in district one, but they don't have to.

They they can live anywhere. But so we do have boards that require that, but this is not one of them. Is that what you're saying? Yes. For example, the parks and outdoors advisory committee requires you to live in a certain district. I believe Head Start governing board also. There's a couple more, but this is not one of them. Gotcha. I got excited cuz I thought maybe she had moved. I was like, "Oh, Chrissy Rashid lives on

Chrissy Rashid lives on Highway 58, which is three or four districts over from district 7." So, um I I that's a bit curious and especially on the board of zoning when zoning matters happen within our districts. Um I see on the previous resolution in district 6 that Jane Greger actually lives in district 6. So, uh, I just wanted clarity on that, uh, to note that Chrissy Rashid is a is a resident of district 5. Um, but I guess per the rules that she can be appointed from Highway 58 to represent the district, the people of district 7. Yes, sir. That's completely permissible.

Thank you so much.

Okay. I do intend council to take our parks, public works, and wastewater items as a package. Let's take a look at uh the requested purchases for this evening, please. We have a six or seven purchases requested. We do not have any uh RFP format recommendations, renewals, emergency purchases, or soul source purchases. Hit your light if you've got any questions about purchases, council. Okay, seeing none, let's take a look at next week's agenda, please. Next week we will have a special presentation from Arts Build regarding the arts week presentation and a proclamation. Um we also have um a community development committee meeting on the agenda. Is that still happening Councilman Clark

for next week? I originally you had set a cadence I believe and so I think it may be a relic of that for March and April and April. So, we're going to cancel that. Sure. I think that the 14th will be should be a short agenda for us that day anyway.

Okay. Yes. It's uh important to note for the public that we will be gathering at 2:00. Um and we do intend to move forward if possible without a recess because uh there is the opening night of the new Lookout Stadium. So, council uh will be there. We will have election of officers next week. Um, and then I'm Let's take a look at items under first reading. We will have several planning items under first reading next week. We are having a planning and zoning committee meeting, council. So, I'd like to hold any questions for those items until that meeting. Under resolutions, we have um we have a couple several or three with lots and lots of dates. Item E, I'm not sure if a new version has gone out. I have the uh there was going to be a correction to a date on item E that council can expect.

Also, next week we will be uh considering a resolution adopting the re revenue policies that the budget working group has been working on. Thank you, Councilwoman Dotley, for for your uh leadership of that work group. Councilman Henderson. Thank you, Madam Chair. Um, and and maybe this is directed more toward Councilwoman Dotley. You know, we had we had sort of batted around on our unbalanced target range,

you know, the 20 to 30 and we talked about 24 and then we talked about meeting in the middle at 22. You know, I think I'd mentioned after that meeting and I think given a little more consideration. I I think I would feel more comfortable with a 22 to 30 range, but I noticed in the resolution it's still at 20. Would there be a problem or do we need to sort of take a pulse of the council whether we want to leave it at 20 or or if everybody's good with 22 and changing it to that still gives a you know a pretty good range of but sets the floor just a little bit higher.

Well, thank you so much for the courtesy of asking uh Councilman Henderson. I appreciate it. I'm open to the 22 to 30%. I think that should be fine as the range for 22 to 30. Yeah, because Yeah, that's fine. Um, so do we uh we can add it as version? Yeah, for next week if the council can I get some nods? Y'all okay with 22 to 30%? Okay, still I mean council Harvey, I'm sorry, but yes. So, okay. So, we good. So, 22 to 30%. Okay. All right. Got it. Okay. We will have a version two on the agenda next week. Council, thank you.

Okay. Okay, we've got um several several appointments next week from the mayor's office and a wastewater item. Council, you may be interested to know that SSES stands for sanitary sewer evaluation survey in item O. All right, let's take a look at our future considerations. Please hit your light if you have any questions about items under future considerations.

All right, looks like we are great. Sorry. Uh, Madam Chair, Councilman Clark, um, I do have a question. Sorry, I've got so much paperwork up here. Uh this is regarding the land purchase by on um an item A and item A. I don't I can't find it in my agenda. It's the uh Reeds is the one 09 Reeds Lake Road of the Corey. Yes.

Purchase. Um previously I had to previously that property had been listed for $285,000. Um and it's currently we're even though that's a grant from the state that's allowing us to purchase that. I'd be curious to know if a an appraisal was submitted to the mayor's office and why we are offering $900,000 on a property that was previously listed u in February 2006 for $285,000. And Councilman Henderson, I don't know if you have some context of that, but I'd be curious. I know you don't work in our land appraisal office, but

just FYI, would you like for me to I I can take it or you can take it. Either one.

Uh well, we I was just speaking with Councilman Henderson about the property a little earlier. Um there is a Zillow listing. So, this is a this was a large golf course at one time. It's been subdivided into several parcels. U there are a handful of parcels north of the property in question that are, you know, sort of single family home size. The four of those parcels together, I think, have been listed separately uh for residential single family home use. And so that is what you're seeing when you see on there. There is a there is there is a dis because those were subdivided off of the property that we are currently looking at. Um there may be some confusion there. The property we looked at, we do use uh an appraiser. Um uh it's a it's a significant and long process. They look at uh comps and and they look at the land itself and and and things of that nature. And so that's that's where that our purchase price of the commercial property separate from the residential property to the north uh was based on that appraisal.

I'm referring to the commercial property that's 4 acres with the golf course on it which is a commercial which is on commercial. It was previously listed or I guess could you confirm that that we have an appraisal? Yes. For the 4 acres with the golf course on it that was not previously listed for $285,000. We do have an appraisal on that there. It was also listed uh on Loopnet other places for very close to what the appraisal came back at. So I'm not I've not seen the listing. Um I'm not sure that that's been shared. Have we Have we Has that been shared with us? It has not. That's what I'm asking. Happy to look at that listing uh and see what that looks like. Could you send that appraisal to Councilman Henderson and I?

Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Thank you. That's all. Okay. Councilman Elliot. Thank you, Madam Chair. I have a question in regards to how what steps are we taking? This is probably not for you, Ellis. What steps are we taking um to ensure that we're going to be able to properly maintain these parks? Mhm. I remember our previous department head who departed us, she presented some uh grave concerns around deferred maintenance

and being able to keep up with this. Um it's great that we're able to provide a new park with funds that don't come out of our general fund, but what are we doing to actually make sure we can keep up with this park? And yeah, so I want to start with that question. So, thank you uh Councilman Elliot for that question. Darren Le from mayor's office. U we need to purchase property first and then through a robust community input pro process including council the community and the administration we will find the best use for the property together and formulate a plan to move forward.

I I get that part, but I know we're going to figure out how to get the park. We're going to get the park. Well, I don't see anybody us not voting to get the parks, especially the state grant. how we make sure that this park along with the many other parks are going to be maintained. Uh I understand that this department also had a significant amount of vacancies at some point pulled from other divisions and everything else. Are we going to be utilizing those vacancies to bring on additional staff or how do we make sure I don't want to set us up for failure, right? I don't want to see us getting new facilities and infrastructure that we can't keep. Now, on the front end, we are it's going to be pristine. It's going to be the newest park in the city and I think we'll have almost 6 $700,000 to do what whatever we need to. So, we need the green space, but I'm talking about long-term. Not only that park, we have another park in my district that's coming online in end of 2027, Providence Park. How we're going to make sure these facilities are going to be properly cared for also considering we are in very tight budget constraints. So I think I understand your question is not really this particular space in general, but this is more of a budget

this and all of them. This is more of a budget question when we get into our budget education sessions about how we're going to maintain uh our parks in the future. Yep. Okay. We will unveil uh strategies. We'll take a deep dive into the budget at that time with this particular project at 109 Reeds Lake Road. We do not know what we do not know at this time. And again to repeat uh we will engage in a robust process and we'll figure out what we need uh the best use for this uh money that has been granted to us by the state. And uh moving forward with council's advice, we will find a the right way.

And I'm I'm going to say this. A kudos to your team for being able to be creative with how we find funding to make this happen. So I do appreciate that. Um, and I too I look forward to highlighting that in our budget conversation. So, if we can circle back to that of what does maintenance look like, what does utilization look like for vacancies to accommodate this this and other important divisions that we need to make sure uh we have filled in order to do our job to make sure deliver. So, that's it. That's all, madam chair. Thank you.

Thank you very much, Councilman Henderson. Thank you, Madam Chair. Just to follow up on Councilman Elliot's uh comments, it may be a good idea to revisit our POPS plan because it does sort of lay out

all of those um you know what what the what the vision is, what we anticipate, you know, cost being uh because I think that was voted on before a lot of the new members came on and it would pro probably be a good idea maybe to get a a um presentation on that pops plan and and just to go over a lot of those but but this particular park or this uh the planning for this is in that when I say it's in that POPS plan generally uh that sort of hits the target for what's in the POPs plan. So really, it's just sort of beginning to carry out the vision. Obviously, the land's available. Uh, you know, once land's gone, it's hard to get back. So, it the land is available. Uh, we can use it as a park. And I would say for the near term, it would u cost very little maintenance. You know, we're talking about uh some mowing basically, you know, that would take place. Uh, it it is it is not well, what you might call in pristine condition for a park at this at this point in time,

but that is something that will have to be developed and looked at. But to your point, uh I mean, you make a great point. I mean, obviously this will be a budgetary item, but I think it would be a good idea to have a presentation on the POPS plan and just kind of go through that sort of that plan again for for those that are Darren, what's the status of hiring for a new parks and outdoors director? I'm glad you asked. We're in interviews this week, Madam Chair, because I think the timing of that would be appropriate to line

and I appreciate you mentioning that we are uh in about 10 hours of interviews this week. Um, good. So we are moving moving that ahead quite quite quickly and but thoroughly. Uh to your point, Councilman Henderson, I appreciate that the POPS document as we adopted I think it was 2023 if I'm correct is 158 pages. So a presentation on that uh we are definitely willing to put together but probably we'll need to zero down or drill down into some specific areas otherwise we could be here for five or six hours and I was basically meaning general you know 30,000 foot view over overview. Well, and it could also be a a good use of the council's time to do a strategic planning session on that. Absolutely.

Or even possibly um a lunch and learn under uh you know with where we look at some of these parks and even move around a little bit. Well, I just think it is an important document that I'm not even sure how many might even be familiar that we that we have it. We haven't referred to it referred to it in the past year that I can think of.

Okay. Thank you very much, council. Do we have any other questions about future considerations? All right, looks like we are good. Thank you very much, council. Um, let's head on into our committees. Um, I will hand the chair over to Chairwoman Burrs for planning and zoning. Thank you, Chairwoman Hill. I'd like to call to order our planning and zoning committee and ask for a motion to approve the minutes from our last meeting.

Second. Oh, can can she approve the minutes from the other part of our meeting because I forgot to do that? You want to appear? No. Go ahead. Can we get a motion on the minutes from our meeting? It's sorry.

Okay. Um, thank thank you council. The minutes have been properly approved and second a motion to approve and seconded. So, they shall pass. Move forward. Um, all right. So we have you have your summary that you received in your packet. There are three highlighted items items B, E, and F. U which have been tagged by the RPA to review for sure today. Um my first question is to confirm that let's see that's districts three and seven. Do you want presentations on those? So sorry uh 0018 and 0020 for district 7.

Oh sorry my bad. Yes. Yes. So thank you madam chair. Yes, I do want a presentation on um 0018. Um and then for 0020 um I wanted to move that to May the 12th uh to the next well to review that in the next planning and zoning committee. I think it's May 5th. Okay. To move that one to then because I talked to the developer today and so we're going to meet with the community and then we should have all that resolved by the time we come back. So I don't need a presentation for that one but I did want one for 0018.

Okay, perfect. So noted and then um Councilman Davis, you have one item 0032. Would you like a presentation on that today? All right. So that hits the the hot ones. Is there any other item that anybody would like a presentation on? Yes. Councilwoman Doley so much for 0027. I would like a u a presentation on that one as well. Okay. Okay. Thank you so much. You're welcome. I see no other lights. Oh, I like presentation. Which one? Um, 0019.

0019. Is Matt Ball here? No.

Okay. So, as a reminder, council, these are items that will come before our agenda for first reading next week. And Karen, I see no other lights. So, Karen, if you want to come forward. So, we're looking at items B, C, E, and G. Okay. Um, I'll be brief on this one. I did note, um, this is in the Hixon area off East Boy Scout Road. Um, I did note it had opposition, but I think it was pretty much addressed at planning commission. So, I'll just go through briefly. This was a um request to abandon a plan unit development and it was um property that was reszoned in 1988. Um this is when it was in the unincorporated county. It received a special permit for putt in 1991 and then was annexed into the city of Chattanooga in 2014. So, it is zoned R2. It's a little bit of a pocket in that area. Zoned R2 with a planned unit development on top. and the Jackson um Square Homeowners Associated Association um doesn't want to is not able to maintain that property. So, they would like to abandon the PUD and then um a portion of that site will be redeveloped. So, at planning commission, there's a neighbor that I believe is a little bit to the um the northeast or east that was concerned about storm water. And so planning commission did talk to um that person and just talked about the permitting process and how storm water would be addressed in the permitting process but seemed to be u more about storm water than the ban of putt itself.

Okay. Councilman Davis and I think it was that same neighbor um that was concerned about some trees um that I heard from but actually they clarified that the trees in question were on their property and not this property. So they couldn't be cut anyway. So

yes, we we cleared that up as well. The planning commission is helpful oftentimes with kind of giving a little bit of input on the permitting process and talking through that. Um, and this comes with a um planning commission recommendation to approve the putt abandonment. We don't have um this is kind of a there's no process to amend a putt like this with the new zoning. So, this is a putt abandonment, but it's pretty much developed except for that um kind of that small portion. All right. I see. Oh, let's see. Chairwoman Hill. Yeah. So, we haven't had something like this where a pud was built, right? And now they want to But so when they were approved for the pud, they built to the density,

right, that they were approved for. And so now, help us understand a little bit better. It's first time I've seen one of these in five years. We've had a couple recently um and it's

that have already been built like this. We had one um off um it's just south of the Kohl's target site um on east um in Hicks, excuse me, in East Brainard. I cannot remember the Joiner Road and they had built out and they had one lot that I think they were having problems maintaining and maybe they were having some um unhoused activity and so they decided to sell the property. They just weren't able to keep up with it. And so the properties in there become non-conforming, legal non-conforming. But that one was all built out except for that one property also. And this one, I think there's some crumbling like recreational infrastructure on the site that they're not able to maintain. There's a whole um application narrative from the homeowners association kind of talking how they came to um this process, but I think there might have been one more. It is uncommon, but I think it's when people have a property that they as a homeowners association have to take care of and either they no longer choose to or able to take care of it. This is the process they go through. But those will become legal non-conforming um because um development.

So how many how many new lots then are created by this? They will be it is the let me see if I've got a site plan. There we go. So you already see some attached housing and so the um I guess the kind of where that new culde-sac is those will be the new units. And so one of the reasons why we have the zoning history in here is because it was zoned and got the special permit in the county and brought into the city that this would been a decision made um in the unincorporated county to kind of say that yeah we do have a little bit of a pocket in this pud with the attached housing

and so this is a low-lying floodprone area. So the storm water management pond will address those concerns. it um that was a discussion at planning commission that it would be addressed through permitting. So this is a um conceptual site plan once they go through kind of all the process of permitting it might look different when it actually gets constructed or what gets constructed might look different and I mean there so the neighborhood association is the no J Floyd with the engineers is the

and he's on behalf of the Jackson Square homeowners association and they have um like I said they presented a long letter but they um noted I believe that they have um some additional open space somewhere else in the area. Um but it says they could not afford what it would cost to repair and maintain the 2.13 acres of common property and would like to sell the property for for the development. Interesting. Okay. Thank you. I appreciate that additional welcome discussion. Councilman Davis.

Yeah. And I was just going to clarify to Chairwoman Hills point the situation as I understand it is the builder had built out like the shell of a clubhouse there as well as a tennis court that have just become dilapidated over time because they were never completed by the builder. Yeah. And so it's just an eyesore and um and just vacant land. But there is land and I can't remember exactly where it is in here. There is a vacant lot that the HOA plans to uh build a playground on um to kind of provide that same communal space that was originally envisioned for these lots. So,

thank you for that. Yeah, it says um just to um Councilman Davis's point, it says the HOA plans to use the proceeds of the sale to create a community park with a contingency set aside budget um and limited for some other common use area use upgrades.

So Karen, with that mic with the hardship being that these amenities that were supposed to be created were not finished. Um now like I had an issue like this in district 2 where there was a pool that was supposed to be finished and we held the final certificates of occupancy um I believe it was the the last the 20% of the certificates of occupancy could not be given until the amenities were complete. Um, so given that this was such a long time ago, is this something that we've refined so as to prevent something like this from happening again?

We have in somewhere and I was trying to find in my notes um whether or not open space was required. So sometimes open space is required in the code itself. So thinking back to when it was developed under the county code could be open space was required but didn't detail what those elements were and it might not have been enforced. But the new PUD, which we have only had one application for the new PUD process, is um is much more detailed and our the city enforcement team obviously is much more involved through the permitting enforcement. Um so I don't foresee that we would have a problem like that happen. Okay. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you. All right. Uh seeing no other lights, um Karen. Oh. Oh, sorry. You even said that our city attorney has some comments. Thank you. I apologize. Yeah, I just wanted to make sure on that that last issue on here, who is going to be maintaining the detention pond if this abandonment occurs? And that is right in the middle of a bunch of residential areas. So, I want to make sure someone has got responsibility for maintaining that detention p. I will confirm. Okay.

If they can't maintain a 10 score, they're sure not going to maintain. So that could just be a note on our agenda for next week um if we need to just get that on the record. Okay. Yes. I will I'll put a something on a slide. Okay. Thank you Karen. Anything else for this particular item? Okay. Thank you. Let's move on to item C 0019.

Okay. This is a property um this is a case at 1107 Northmore Road. It probably does look familiar to you all. This is um adjacent to Tucker Missionary Baptist Church. U the Brainer um high school complex is um to the right. Um this is a request to lift and amend conditions. So this is not a reszoning. The property is already zoned R and three. It is to lift and amend the conditions from uh the original zoning. So um I will get to kind of the lift of I will list the conditions briefly that were placed on it in 2022. They include maximum building height, landscape buffering, setback for the building, maximum number of units, and a landscape buffer. Um, and then in 2025, excuse me, um, 2025, the number of maximum number of residential units, that condition was lifted. So, there's still conditions at play. And I'll kind of those conditions are because the previous site plan was showing a larger structure um, with a kind of a bigger massing. So the setback, the buffering, all those were intended to address um the based on kind of the massing and location of this building. Um primarily single unit residential to the west. Um the church and um school campus is to the east. Um I'm going to go to show the new site plan and then um kind of back into the request. So this is the revised site plan. So the this site plan had originally six conditions. One was lifted. This is the new site plan and the new site plan is calling for um a change to one and twotory units and they're breaking up that building massing into smaller units. And so, um, the to response to that, the applicant is asking to lift conditions and, um, and I'll kind of skip where how how

they're being, um, the request and then skip to kind of how they were addressed. And so, um, staff does recommend that, um, note that the proposed project scale intensity has changed and that the enhanced landscape BM and 50-oot building setback are no longer necessary. The request to amend the maximum height from three stories to two and a half stories reflects the actual design being proposed and is reasonable. The request to command um to mend the condition from a landscape buffer um is reasonable based on the changing of that scale and intensity again they have those smaller footprint buildings and the request to mend condition with no res with respect to no vehicle access to Bella Vista Drive is reasonable and no vehicle connection um is indicated. So previously there had been concern about that larger masked building accessing Bell Bella Vista which is shown to the um top of the site plan. And then um so staff recommended a lifting um three of the condition amending three conditions and lifting two of the conditions. There was an opposition present at planning commission. Uh planning commission had a similar finding um that the scale and intensity has changed and many of those prior conditions are no longer needed. So to focus on the conditions that would remain in place are the three shown on the slide. Maximum building height of 2 and 1/2 stories, 25 ft landscape buffer around the perimeter where it ab butts that RN1 residential neighborhood zone and no vehicular access to Bel Vista Drive. And so partly it is um intending just um to mend and lift, but there are still conditions in place. And so and that is to help support this site plan other um which is the new proposed development.

Councilman Clark, do you have questions? I do. Um, Chairwoman Burns, in regards to some additional conditions we had discussed uh with Matt Bedsaw um regarding some well mostly submitting the site plan into listing the site plan as a condition because there were some concerns about the landscape buffering and what the neighbors had requested because part of the lifting of this condition that mound um which we had to remove to be able to do these cottages, which I think is so much better than that three-story building. Uh, but because of that, there were questions in our public meeting regarding what that looked like. Um, and I wanted to uh be sure that that was included in there. Um, so residents along Venoi and Bel Vista knew that we were including a landscape buffer. Okay,

that still met their specifications far as far as noise cancellation, light pollution, and to my knowledge it does. The second condition, although I think it's listed in the building permitting process, was in regards to 4903 Bel Vista Drive, which is Mr. Keith's house right there. Um, it's kind of the larger lot that abuts this property. There were some concerns from the public. Oh, actually it's on there where it says waterline easement.

Uh there were some questions from Donna Shepard that we're still waiting to get some information about regarding the um storm water and drainage plan that's also going to be submitted as a condition. And I know most of that stuff is handled during the building permitting process, but I wanted to sure to ensure our neighbors that we are intentional about making sure that they're held accountable to their concerns and making sure there's no impact to their uh properties. I can reach out to Miss Shepard and ask for the storm water and drainage plan and then make sure if the condition is not doesn't have enough of the details, I can confirm that with Mr. Bedsol and then I will follow up with you.

Yeah. And so those are the only two conditions and additions. This was a contentious project as many of you remember. And so we are finally at an impass to where everybody agrees. Um everyone is happy. We're having an additional meeting just to specifically discuss the storm water drainage plan and the landscape buffering uh with about eight of those neighbors at Tucker. But we have not received them yet. So I just want to say that on the record. But other than that, we are we are extremely happy with this revision. Um, and I noticed that Tucker Baptist is adding additional parking expansion on the other side. Um, so this is going to be a wonderful project for our community. So, thank you Karen and to Invest Chattanooga for all your work and um, re-spearheading the design on this everybody's happy about.

And I failed to mention there 53 homes are proposed on the site. Gota. Thank you. Yeah, I think madam chair. Yeah. Thank you. I see no other lights for this particular project. So, uh let's move on to uh we don't need to do item E, but item F, please. Uh Z, excuse me, yes to item E, not no to item F. So, 0018, my apologies.

Okay, 0018 is a reszoning of 4,300 Dods Avenue. We've had lots of activity on Dods Avenue recently and the request is to reszone from RN2 to CR regional commercial zone to keep a current car sales business. So, I'm going to skip to the end and then back up. The applicant was um requested to follow up with LDO regarding some um permitting issues at the first hearing at planning commission. Um to our knowledge, the applicant did not do that, nor did the applicant come back to planning commission. So, planning commission recommended to deny. So just keeping that in mind as we're going through it. Um the applicant um is um it's the property is currently zoned residential. Um this is the site. Um we don't have any reszoning history for the site. Um so using Google Earth and historical aerial images. It appears the repair facility would open in 2013. The use of the property as a commercial vehicle repair facility would not have been legally permitted in the R2 zone in 2013. So, you can tell it does have a commercial look, but um we don't have any zoning history on the site and appears that um it has been zoned residential for the length of its time there. Uh the applicant requested the CR regional commercial zone which is really intended to be um thinking more of our sites like a Northgate Mall or Hamilton Place Mall. Um but it is a site that allows vehicular repairs um with a special permit. So the site surrounded by um um some there's commercial uses and institutional the property immediately abudding it is single family detached. Um staff had concerns about the requested regional commercial zone but this is a small urban lot. It's 60 ft wide. To bring it up into compliance um there would be with the CR zone

requested CR zone there would need to be a 20 foot wide buffer. So, and then there would need to be street yards. So, staff just had concern concerns about whether this was even a viable use on a small urban residential lot. Um, we did note that the CNT neighborhood transition zone more aligns with the plan neighborhood commercial uses and only has a landscape buffer of 10 ft. So, it was just for information to the applicant. It's it might be challenging. Um and so again saying you know there is some possibilities maybe with that CNT neighborhood transition zone. Um there was discussion at planning commission about this and planning commission um asked the applicant to um go to set up a presubmittal meeting or talk to LDO just to understand the complexities about developing the site and recommended that the property owner go with the applicant. the applicant is um I guess renting the site and so um we didn't hear that happened and then um the applicant did not come back to the March planning commission meeting and so it does come with a recommendation to deny. Um planning commission did ask us to maybe look and see if there's some possibilities for um car repairs on smaller urban sites, but this does come with a recommendation to deny.

Thank you Karen. Councilwoman Dotley. Thank you so much Madam Chair. Thank you, Karen, for the presentation. I did speak to the uh renter or the person that put in the application and they advised they just wanted it to put up some security cameras and something else. Don't know how true that is. Um but for this one, uh just like the the 0020, can we move that one also to May the 5th? And then that way um if you can reach back out to them I will and let them know they need to do the presubmitt meeting before we'll consider moving forward with this. I will ask them to go ahead and schedule that. And also um with their lot because again I'm a former East Lake resident and I used to come out of that

space all the time to turn on Dods Avenue. Um they park cars on the rightway. Yes. So I know that's not u legal or it's not it shouldn't be like that. So just addressing those things and make sure they understand like no we're not doing we had noticed that and put one of that was kind of one of the challenges for use of the site. It did appear looking back at all the aerial photos you could see the parking in the rideway parking in the rightway. Now they have a fence up. I don't know if they're parking in the rightway, but that you could tell that that had been a pattern of the site. But I will mention and that was partly to try to figure out what type of use is possible on the site since it has had some sort of commercial structure according to the tax assessor,

right? And they um he said that a lot of people have been breaking in and stealing parts and all all the various things that happened in those spaces. Uh but that right away piece when you turn it out, you can't see like you just it kills the visibility coming out of that intersection. So uh yeah, just reach back if you could just reach back out to him and let him know he needs to do that present meeting before we'll consider bringing this back. And I will mention specifically kind of the parking and use of the ride ofway and also think of staff just the landscaping and buffering to be accommodated between like car repairs in a single family home just how that might work. A

lot. Okay. Thank you Karen. Thank you. Thank you Karen. Thank you. Um okay. So then uh item number 2026-000027 which is also in district 7. So this is at 34047th Avenue and the site is two blocks west of Dods Avenue in East Lake Academy. Um it is zoned RN2 residential and they would like to go to the RN3 residential neighborhood zone which uh for a quadplex. So that zone that difference bumps them up. Um let's see if I have a zoning comparison. You can see the um RN3 allows them to have multi-unit buildings. So that's where they were they were headed. Um we don't have any zoning or much zoning history on the site. Um, and the development form in the area is a mix of single unit detached residential south and west of the site and industrial and commercial uses east and north. The Rosville Boulevard plan recommends a medium business mix but does have limited residential as part of that mix. Um staff noted that so the part of the process is orienting people to new zones and so staff um found that the requested kind of that requested quadplex use is compatible with adjacent land uses and meets the goals of the Roshel Boulevard plan. We'll introduce a new housing topography which is supported by the plan. But the requested RN3 zone is more of that suburban kind of apartment kind of standard apartment complex zone. So, uh, staff recommended instead the TRN1 traditional neighborhood residential zone. It allows the use but allows that more urban form and introduces um, uh, what we feel is a more compatible, um, zone. And so, um, that comes with a recommendation for the TRN1. There was no opposition president planning commission. the applicant. We spent some

time talking um during the planning commission meeting with the applicant explaining the use is good. We're recommending the new zone and then we followed up the next day just to share the zone to make sure um he understood if he had any questions. So, um we think that we have all given him all the resources and he's good with the TRN1 zone. Um and so planning commission had the same recommendation to approve the TRN1 transitional neighborhood zone. I go with the planning commission. Uh but if the applicant wants to reach out and seem like y'all got it work down,

we'll follow up one more time. We um I asked Brian if we had heard from him and he um to our knowledge, he didn't follow up after our couple communications, but um we just wanted to make sure that um we went through it and feel like that's the best zone and he and tried to give him all the information he needed. Okay. All right. That's it. Thank you, Karen. Thank you, Madam Ch.

So, I see no other lights. And that covers the cases that you all said that you wanted review on. Does anybody else have any questions for Karen while we've got her here? M captive audience. Okay. A couple of notes for you all. Uh and Karen, just stay for just one second. Um plan Chattanooga. It's time for us to to review that again. and look at possibly adopting that. And Karen is going to provide a presentation on April 21st. Is that correct? At our strategic planning on April 21st. Is that still That is correct. And I'll have um I have several follow-ups to um council members that had asked for some revised text or some other and so I'll hope to get that out by the end of the week.

Okay, sounds good. So, just look for that in two weeks. We will have a presentation during our strategic planning meeting. As a reminder, the next planning commission meeting is April 13th, which is next Monday. You all received in your email from Brian Schultz uh on March 27th the cases that will be heard during that time. If there's anything as you as you all in your spare time have to review those those cases. If there's anything that I can be helpful with, please let me know. And I think that covers everything. Madame Chair, what is your

pleasure? Okay. So, I am going to pass um the seat on to economic development. Can I have a motion on the minutes?

All right. Uh council, city as a whole, uh welcome to economic development. Uh if you recall these last couple weeks, I have announced from this dis that we were scheduled to have a presentation from urban story ventures regarding an update as uh to the bin development. This meeting was scheduled with myself at a meeting at Urban Story Ventures uh office with their team on March 16th which we both look at schedules and highlighted that today would be the best day to do such presentation. Well, they were not prepared for today's meeting and are not able to attend today. Unfortunately, it is my recommendation to this council that we get through next week's leadership elections and allow our next chair to appoint whoever may serve in this committee uh or whatever committee that may look like. And then from there, we set a date for them to attend and they move their schedules accordingly for council. Um, this is a project that the council has invested significant amount of time and resources along with administration over the years and everybody in the city and I I feel confident uh speaking on behalf of my colleagues are invested in the success of the bend and want it to be successful not only for that development but we have other uh partners whose projects are extinct for this. So uh we don't know what's what's what's what's the what the outcome will be but that is my suggestion going forward. So uh

unless I have colleagues that have questions this will be um our economic committee e economic development committee today. So councilwoman chair woman um I'll I'll yield my time to councilwoman doly. I think she had her light as well and all that her speaking. Councilwoman Dolly.

Thank you. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I appreciate it. Thank you, uh, Madam Chair as well. It's very disappointing that you went to the office, set a date, and well, time doesn't change and they didn't come to the meeting. Um, and it's very offensive as well, simply because for a variety of reasons. Uh, starting when I first got on council, I could contact them anytime, take a tour, do all the things. And now when we need to follow up and we need additional information, they don't show up. In addition to that, the west side pro the west side is moving along amazingly. Uh they're doing an amazing job there. And so a lot of the infrastructure funding they need for their phase three part of the project. Is that correct? Phase three. I got it. Phase three part of the project is dependent upon what the bin does. Um so to not show up when they were showing up week in and week out when they wanted the tiff is very disappointing. So, uh, uh, Chairman, uh, Elliot, I I hate that that happened to you. I appreciate your diligence in doing that, and I do agree, uh, once, you know, the leadership change is over that we do have that meeting immediately. Um, and it would be great, uh, if someone from Urban Star Adventures can send us an update in the meantime because it is this is disappointing. Um, and I have a lot of other choice words that I won't say, but I appreciate you yielding your time, Madam Chair, and um, thank you, uh, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Councilwoman Sherwan Hill.

Thank you. I'd like to echo Councilwoman Dotley's feelings. I'm I'm pretty appalled. Uh when I learned that um our presenter, Jimmy White, was uh not going to be here. I um I think my jaw dropped. I was just astounded that someone that has an economic development incentive package valued at more than hund00 million cannot get their schedule right to be at a meeting to talk with um to talk with the the municipal body. Um this and some other economic packages that we have considered in the last few years um give me genuine concern about the attitude of applicants um who make it through this process and the way that they value or disregard the people of Chattanooga. and the investment that they are making in our shared prosperity.

Mhm. That's all. Thank you, Madam Chair. Councilman Clark. Um, so I had a really good meeting today uh with Betsy McCrack from the Channing Housing Authority who is here today. So, thank you for being here, you and your team. Uh, and the One Westside project is coming along quite well. I'm excited about that. Um, is it possible, Mr. Chair, that we can get a status um, update from um, Sharita Allen regarding uh, the compliance of this project with our municipal body like

Yes, let me do this for the cuz I I doubt she has it readily available and it's okay,

but if she could send it to us, I I will also say I am not to speak on behalf of Sharita. I know she has had her own difficulty with this particular or the administration as a whole has had their own difficulty with coordinating with this particular partner. So, um let us follow up on that so we can make sure we can accurately get you that information. Uh Mr. Chair, I would also like to make a point uh and maybe the city attorney can confirm this, but this body does have subpoena power um and requesting that you appear before this board um and that might be a remedy perhaps um in utilizing um I think Mr. right, has several properties in our um in our city and it has done some great things. Um and I and my hope because it is tied to our one westside plan that I want this to be successful. U it needs to be successful. I think in hindsight, I hope we will never um attach a uh tiff or pilot to a private developer again because this could happen um to where if they default or if any personal business items go arai in this case, we don't know because he is not here. But um I would like to extend some grace and understanding just before we make any type of judgments as to why he's not here other than the context that you have provided.

Absolutely. I will say this, this council does have subpoena power to sum anybody to this uh body as we see fit. And in a second, I'll let um our attorney speak more to that. But I I I will say you are correct. I will also say not only this project but we have several other projects who have received some type of incentives in the city um that you know we also got to be mindful of and review. I want to say this as a whole as we continue. Chattanooga is at a place where, you know, we want people to be good partners with us,

right? But not at the sake of um neglecting the responsibility we have as tax uh u representing taxpayers and our constituents, right? long as you want to be good partners with us, I I think I can speak uh firmly on behalf of the city. The city wants to be good partners with you, but that is a two-way street. Um so, Mr. City attorney, Mr. Attorney, can you speak to any authorities we have to summon the people? uh you clearly have the power to summon uh someone by subpoena based upon the quai judicial authority that you have for this body and that that is in the charter here under that code I guess the aspect of um Mr. uh where he is located today here is the the issue you had talked with him there had been communications back and forth with him uh by Mr. Mammontov I think on behalf of the city trying to at least arrange for a time for that to occur and it's my understanding that he will be appearing in the next meeting of the industrial development board as well since there was a tiff issued by that uh entity here in connection with the project and the only problem we've had with the IDB here during uh April is there was a problem getting a quorum up in that regard so he's scheduled to be at the next industrial development board meeting in May to my understanding and he had agreed to that as well and if there's a need for a subpoena before then or after that then we can definitely deal with that.

Can you uh inform us as the subject for that meeting? Uh just uh because he has an attorney involved in connection with the case. There were questions that the IDB had as to his proceeding on the project here uh that was presented here that is the tax increment financing arrangement. Okay. pretty much the same thing we're looking at. Yeah, that that body is trying to protect that that issue as well. Okay. Well, council uh council had a question for our attorney. Isn't um aren't they required to give an annual report? Yes. To us annual report as well. Okay. And this was back in 2023

that at this this point in time the initial uh development I believe was approved in 23 but I have not seen an annual report. So that was two years almost three year. Well, okay. I think that's what Mr. Mamtov is requesting at this point to see. Okay, that works. Thank you so much, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Mr. Attorney. Council Harvey, Mr. Attorney, did you say the IDB board cannot get a quorum? IDP board did not have a quorum for the April meeting on the 9th and they were trying to make sure they could get that quorum for their next available meeting. Is this a common occurrence? No, sir. Okay. This is spring break. Okay. All right. I was going to say we got an issue if the IDB can't get a Okay. All right. All right. All right. No, this that's that's the issue here.

I just want to make sure. Okay. Just wanted to make sure we had enough folks. Okay. Good deal. Thank you. Yes, sir. That's all. Council, any more questions? Well, all hearts and minds are clear and there's no unreadiness. This will journ our economic development committee. I appreciate you all for taking the time uh and leaning in on this conversation. Madam Chair, how when would you like for us to return? 510. We are recessed until 52.

Nicole, you have that alternate version 11 of the booting. Okay, we are ready, council, to resume our business. So, we have a version 11. Yes, version 11.

Okay. Uh, madame clerk, will you please read item 7A, version 11? This is the version with the amendment. Council, an ordinance amending Chattanooga City Code Part 2, Chapter 24, section 24, 337, and create a new ordinance relative to booting and mo immobilization of vehicles. Council, can I get a motion? Is that here?

So, this is actually not amended. This is just version 11. Oh, wait. Approve version. Second. Thank you, council. We have a motion on the floor to approve with a proper second. Do I have any questions or comments? All in favor? Opposed? Version 11 passes. And since that is a I guess a version that has got an amendment in it from the last reading of version 10, we will have to have a second reading on this item next week because the charter requires two readings on two separate days. Yes. Thank you very much. Great.

Ordinance is under first reading item 8A, please, madam clerk. an ordinance closing and abandoning unopened right away in the 4,000 block of Cromwell Road as detailed on the attached maps. Motion to approve. Council, we have a motion on the floor to approve with the proper second. Do you have any questions or comments? All in favor?

I opposed. Motion passes. Moving to resolutions. Madame clerk, I'd like to take items 8 A or 9 A and B as a package, please. Item A, a resolution confirming the appointment of Jennifer Gregory to the board of zoning appeals for district 6 with a term beginning on April 8th, 2026 and ending on April 7, 2029. Item B, a resolution confirming the appointment of Christy Rashid to the board of his owning appeals for district 7 with the term beginning on April 8, 2026 and ending on April 7, 2029. Thank you, council. We have a motion on the floor to approve with a proper second. Do I have any questions or comments? All in favor?

I opposed. Motion obstaining. We have one abstension. Motion passes. And I think I see Jen Gregory out there. Yay. Thank you. And is uh Christy here as well? She is not here today, but she's doing her thing. Okay. Well, thank you very much for your service to our community, both of you. Thank you. Um economic development item C, please. A resolution authorizing the administrator for the Department of Economic Development to enter into an agreement and substantially the form attached with the Associated General Contractors East Tennessee to implement the builder blueprint program, a construction trade and business training program in the amount of $175,000.

Thank you, council. We have a motion on the floor to approve with the proper second. Do I have any questions or comments? All in favor? I opposed. Motion passes. Item D, please. A resolution authorizing the Family Justice Center to apply for and if awarded, accept a continuation grant from the Tennessee Office of Criminal Justice for services provided to victims living within the city of Chattanooga, Hamilton County, for an amount not to exceed $124,000. Thank you, council. We have a motion on the floor to approve with the proper second. Do you have any questions or comments? All in favor?

Opposed? Motion passes. Let's take items E, F, and G under the mayor's office as a package. Please, Madam Clerk.

Item E, a resolution confirming May Kelly's reappoint of Sage Sand Car to the Metropolitan Airport Authority for term beginning on November 30, 2025 and end on November 29, 2028. Item A for resolution confirming May. his reappoint of Chris Suggton to the Metropolitan Airport Authority for a term beginning on November 30, 2025 and ended on November 29, 2028. Item G, resolution confirming Mayor Kelly's reappoint of Harriet Stokes of the Metropolitan Airport Authority for a term beginning on February 16, 2026 and endeavor, 2029. Approve second.

Thank you, council. We have a motion on the floor to approve these reappoints with a proper second. Do I have any questions or comments? All in favor? Opposed? Motion passes. Um, do we have any of our Metropolitan Airport Authority board members in the audience tonight? Well, if you're watching online, we thank you very much for your service to our community. Item H, a

resolution authorizing the office of community health to enter into a subreient agreement with the community haven incorporated to expand its community patrol workforce development community outreach and community safety initiatives targeting justice involve youth in Chattanooga to reduce crime and increase public safety for an amount not to exceed $650,000. Move to approve. Thank you. We have a motion on the floor to approve with the proper second. Do have any questions or comments? All in favor? I

opposed. Motion passes. Moving into parks, public works, and wastewater. Madam clerk, I'd like to take items I through M as a package, please. Councilman Henderson, did you have a comment? Okay. I was going to make a motion.

All right. Item I, a resolution authorizing the administrative for the Department of Public Works to award contract number R24004201 Johnny Patton Ballfield Improvements to J Brin and Construction Inc. of Dalton, Georgia in the amount of $812,140.71 with a contingency in the amount of $13,40029 for an amount of $825,541. Item J, a resolution authorizing the administrative for the Department of Public Works to award contract number S25017201, Summit Landfill Fence Replacement to King Development Group of Knoxville, Tennessee in the amount of $269,100 with a contingency in the amount of $26,900 for a total amount not to exceed $296,000. Item K, a resolution adopting the Chattanooga historic guidelines for use in all existing historic districts and landmarks including St. Elmo historic district, Ferg Place Historic District, Fort Historic District, Battery Place Historic District, and Logis Historic Landmark, Frank Lloyd Wright, Shaving House. more particularly described in ordinance numbers 9333 Fort 9542 Battery Place 9560 Ferg Place 9714 St. Elmo and 2511 Shaven House. Item L a resolution authorizing the administrator for the Department of Public Works to award contract number him to 30007201 Development Resource Center Interior Improvements to BJB Construction Company Inc. of Brentwood, Tennessee in the amount of $175,230 with a contingency in the amount of $35,000 for a total amount not to exceed $210,230.

Item M, a resolution authorizing an increase to PA1000443 with detail experts for custodial cleaning of the downtown campus buildings by 264,392 for a revised to amount not to exceed $679,392 to reconcile Oracle purchase order amounts, extend the purchase agreement by 60 days while a new contract is bid and awarded and provide funding through the extended extinction period. Thank you, Councilman Henderson. Move to approve. Second,

council, we have a motion on the floor to approve these items with a proper second. Do I have any questions or comments? All in favor? Opposed? Motion passes. Let's move on to purchases, please.

Good evening, council. We have seven purchases recommended for approval this evening. Item number one is for public works. It's a new agreement for equipment maintenance and repair services. This will be a 4-year agreement with an annual amount limit of $586,000. The awards will go to Sters machinery power equipment Kabota Chattanooga and Chattanooga tractor and equipment as the best bids. Item number two is with public works. It's a new agreement for bag dice. This will be a four-year agreement with an annual amount limit of $50,000. The award will go to Tennessee Valley ICE as the best bid. Item number three is with public works. It's a new agreement for grounds maintenance for city rights of way. This will be a 4-year agreement with an annual amount limit of $156,000. The award will go to the awards will go to city green services and excellent lawn care as the best bits. Item number four is with wastewater. It is a new agreement for bioolids handling services. This will be a 4-year agreement with an annual amount limit of 6,382,480. The award will go to Elite Enterprises is the best bid. Item number five is with public works. This is a one-time purchase for a Ford F550 bucket truck to be used by public works. This purchase from National Autofleet Group will be in the amount of $215,100 utilizing Sourcewell contract. Item number six for public works request to resend the award approval granted on March 10th, 2026 to Nicholls Fleet for a F550 CCTV truck and award the purchase to Q's Inc. in the amount of $389,13.35 utilizing the HGAC cooperative. And finally, number seven with wastewater is a new agreement for parasitic acid. This will be a four-year agreement with an annual amount limit of $895,000. The award will go to Bar Environmental as the best bit.

Thank you very much. Approve. Second. Thank you, council. We have a motion on the floor to approve with a proper second. Do I have any questions or comments? All in favor? Opposed? Motion passes. Okay, we're going to go around the horn for committee reports. Councilman Elliott. Um, Madam Chair, we had development committee today. Hit your light. We're good. We're good.

We had an economic development committee today. Uh, we were supposed to have a presentation from Urban Story Ventures regarding an update from the bin, but unfortunately they were not present today. Um hopefully we can get that re No, we will get that rescheduled soon after our leadership elections. And that is all, Madam Chair. Thank you, Councilwoman Dotley. No report. Councilwoman Burrs.

Thank you, Madam Chair. We had a planning and zoning committee meeting today with review of some cases that will come before our agenda next week. Um, two things that I u cases that I failed to mention during the meeting and I need your help with the the procedure. Uh, Councilwoman Dotley asked that two of her cases be moved from next week's agenda to May 5th. So, I want to get that on the record and that'll be item 20260018 and then 202600 20. She would like those moved. uh are deferred to May 5th for first reading.

Mr. Attorney, are you good to go ahead and move those? Okay. Uh 2026 00018 I had that was district 7. Yeah. So they're both district 7. District 7. And at the request of Councilwoman Dotley, I failed to mention that during the planning and zoning, but that case and then 0020. Got it. All right. Just defer to to May 5th. We will. And as a reminder, we'll have our um planning commission meeting, the planning and zoning um commission meeting on April 13th. Thank you very much. Thank you. Councilman Henderson, no report. Councilman Davis, report. Councilman Harvey, no report. Councilman Clark, no report. Vice Chairwoman Null, no report.

And I have no report either. Which brings us to the point in our meeting where we are happy to address persons who are here who wish to or we are happy to hear from people who would like to address the council. If you are here and you would like to address the council, please go ahead and line up behind the podium um and listen while our attorney reads the rules.

Yes, ma'am. At the end of each council business meeting, the chair will recognize members of the public who wish to address the council. And here's your rules. Each speaker wishing to address the council can only be recognized at the microphone up front for that purpose. Can have more than three minutes to speak and you can address the council only upon matters within their legislative and qua judicial authority and not upon matters which are not under their authority and are regulated by other governmental bodies or agencies. Do not engage in vulgar or obscene language nor use the floor to personally attack or personally denigrate others and address the council as a whole and not make comments directed towards individual council members. And lastly, do not engage in disorderly conduct or disrupting a public meeting which is prohibited by Tennessee law and someone commits that offense if a person substantially obstructs or interferes with a meeting by physical action or verbal utterance with the intent to prevent or disrupt a lawful meeting or gathering. Having stated those rules, please go ahead, sir, and if you would state your name and your district.

Yes, sir. Thank you. Uh Montreal Bessley, uh 3731 Door Street, District, the lovely and great District 7. I'm just I just stepped up just to invite you all out to a big cleanup day that we're having over in Alton Park on the 18th from 9 to 1:00 p.m. Uh and our center stage will be uh Cocoa Cafe. So, we love you all to come out and participate. Help us pick up a little paper, a little trash here and there. and um push, you know, people to Alter Park to get rid of all that unwanted stuff. So they they have in them homes in them garages. So yeah, it's a big spring clean. So I would love to invite you all out. That's it. Thank you. All right. Thank you.

April the 18th from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. And we're kicking off at Coco Lounge. We'll be cleaning up Alton Park Boulevard, 38th Street, and Central Avenue. That's fantastic. Thank you very much.

Good evening. I'm backing. I'm sure uh pass this. It's It's not enough everyone. I might need more three minutes. Well, you know, I've been having this uh problem in my neighborhood. Uh and uh the pictures that I'm showing you presently. Thank you.

Yeah, I'm passing around. When the first picture all of y'all when I get this is what my front yard look like. That's the first part. These flowers was one got mowed down several years ago. And I pray that they don't get mowed down. Anyway, the attachment A is worth my concern. Is it from my backyard? Let's put something you don't have. This branch over here, this tree right here, it was cut down. This one you will see on the back page where branches off of this tree have been cut down. This was just last week they came on my yard. Uh and this over here is a blueberry tree. It's a volunteer bush uh where I guess bird bears came in and dropped it down. Just a a berry bush. And you can see this the back with my backyard need cutting. Look like pot got popcorn in it. If them people come in my yard cut down trees, they need to be bringing the lawn mower and move my yard for me. This is what my backyard look like. And you can see how far they have to come through my yard to get to my house. Just taking the advantage of my house. But I don't know what reason or whatever. This is the gate. My gate back there. They took a lots of effort to get through that gate because it you it was locked but I was unable to lock it because I was waiting on Langley roofing come to my house to finish. They left many tracks in my yard when they put up my roof. My roof which they need to come and take it down, put a new one up there. I took think I have advantage the disadvantage of that also. And they have left my fence, my gate and a mess. You cannot close it up properly like it

should be. So they had to you see it's barcade. It got I have a a pallet on it. I have rope wrapped around it, but I didn't lock it because I knew they was coming in. I left it open for the man to come in. But they came in on my yard and and it and it just don't make sense. So therefore, I know it's someone out there just overly love me and I don't need that type of love. You know, I don't know what it is. And you can see where the branches are where they cut down. This is a this is continuing. So I don't know what it is and why it is, but I'm I'm bringing it to y'all effort. So anything happened to me, you all definitely would be responsible for it because I'm going to tell everybody what's going on cuz this don't make sense that I'm a 82 year old woman live by myself, a widow and they come and what the purpose? It must be a good thing my Lord Jesus Christ have for me to do. It might be for me just expose whatever going on in Chattanooga.

Thank you. I don't know exactly what it is. Thank you. Your time is up. Thank you. Let's see. We have a we have a couple folks uh ma'am that would like to to talk with you. Councilman Harvey. Sorry. That's something else. I'll Okay. Councilman Elliot. Ma'am, if you're having people cut your gate, that's a a legal matter. The police chief right here. He can CPD or filing a report would be best for that one. Oh, I f Oh, I've definitely filed a police report by them coming in on my yard. Each time something happened, I do call it. I've got load up there. Yes. All right. Thank you. Thank you.

Good evening, council. Hello.

I'm Janice Gooden and I'm from the great district 8. Um, I think we missed an opportunity last month. I didn't hear anybody recognize Women's History Month. or even national social work month which was my profession. So um I want to acknowledge the women who are present and the staff and the council women and I appreciate the work that you do. Um, also there are some women that uh I'd like to give tribute to who have passed in the last year or so. Dr. Tommy Brown. Mrs. Forestine Lockheart Haynes was a classmate. Mrs. Dorothy Pride lived to be 103.

She was a pastor's wife and a mother. And most recently, Janette Dods was a cousin, but also an aunt of Kevin, brother Kevin. So, I just wanted to bring attention to that. Thank you. Thank you very much. Is there anyone else here who would like to address the council this evening, council? I'm not seeing anyone who would like to address. Second. We have a motion on the floor to adjurnn with a proper second. All in favor of adjourning. I opposed. Motion passes. We are adjourned.