Remarks by Ron Elliott
68 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 3
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“but you can still meet, but you just can't vote, correct?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“To even meet? Yes, sir. Okay, well, that's our answer on that, right? But in this case, when Councilman Harvey can make it and Councilman Burrs does attend, you now have a quorum that can meet, and she can participate in this committee. She can vote on if that item needs a vote, favorable or whatnot, she can vote on the minutes, right? We've almost had this happen before, even on this council, where we've almost didn't have a quorum, right? And if somebody leaves for emergency or whatnot, or somebody comes in, you all of a sudden have a quorum, there you go, right? It provides the…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 1:26:42
“So let's say you have a committee that has three members on it or four members. Let's say you have four members on the committee and the quorum is three. If you have more people than needed, you've exceeded your threshold for the quorum. Everything else is just extra.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 1:27:07
“Yes, but I believe the language says in the rules that things go forth with a majority. So you're correct. Yes. So if the quorum changes, that majority also does change, but it's still captured in the rules because it says it goes forward.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 1:27:49
“I see that. And if you need to put that in writing, we can. But I also think it gives some flexibility.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 1:28:12
“If it's before a voting item, I think it's appropriate. Well, I don't. That's my opinion. And if you want to make an amendment for it, let's do it. Because this is your complaint, and I want to make sure I'm hearing your issue just like everybody else.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“So I'm going to say this, Counselor. If you have a suggested amendment, I would love to hear it.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“I don't know if there's a deferral. I don't know.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“ALL OF THE COMMITTEES THAT CURRENTLY EXIST WITH THE CHANGE OF CREATING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AS A STANDING COMMITTEE, AND I AM OKAY WITH CREATING COMMUNITY AND EDUCATION”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Correct. Is that correct? Everything else will remain the same. Okay. So to clarify, it would also be planning, zoning and housing will remain the same in the proposal. And economic and community development will be split from economic to economic development and community development education.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“I am open to amending it. I'm also open to it staying the same, too. Okay. Well, we're just having a dialogue to see what we... But I am open to the amendments for compromise.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Yes. Vice Chairman Elliott. So, I'll say this. You know... I CAME INTO THIS PIECE VERY OPEN TO COMPROMISE AND SUGGESTIONS, AND I APPRECIATE COUNCILMEMBER DOTLEY AND COUNCILMEMBER BURR, COUNCILMEMBER HILL, EVERYBODY, COUNCILMEMBER HENDERSON, I APPRECIATE EVERYBODY PROVIDING YOUR INPUT. I THINK ULTIMATELY WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE IS WHATEVER SUGGESTED AMENDMENTS PEOPLE PROPOSED TONIGHT, THEY GO UP FOR A VOTE. IF THEY PASS, GREAT. if they fail so be it but i think this uh topic has gone on for some time and i think this is a great time to land on it to move on and see how we continue on as a…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Councilwoman Hill, when it comes to these code enforcement pieces, I think to spare Nicole, if we can figure out how we can procedurally do a consent agenda and just read all of this into the record and for context for people who don't know what we're looking at. Because code enforcement has been moved under public works all inspectors who previously had a special police commissions prior to that move has to be reapproved by City Council to get those special police commission so it's pretty much a procedural thing that we have to do to mirror organizational shift And so all these folks…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Appreciate you counsel for the Fruitful conversation through all this I appreciate everybody's feedback what you'll see here You should have a copy of Suggested amendments that we discussed at our agenda session There are six of them which we need to take each separately now what you have here i'm gonna read them down the corn piece this is trying to close the gap for participation for everything now um there was some conversations about how does this impact um quorum on council and i understand there is some gray area with that uh that really probably needs to be flushed out even further but…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“And Vice Chair Elliott. um thank you uh i agree there's some gray area with this um it's not perfect this piece i think there's needs to be room to be cleaned up um and so but i do understand the tent behind it so however it goes it goes that's how i look at it all right any other questions or comments council before we vote and again madam clerk will do a roll call vote councilman henderson”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“and vice chair elliott you are recognized this this last one's a little tricky because the print is a little bit different the bottom section section va as amended to the following this is a follow-up from the cadence meeting it's technically supposed to be section 4a is that correct phil yes sir it's in under accounting and accountability and reporting yes um i would like a motion to move uh moves to approve that as amended with this.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Sure. This is the original language. If any committee held fewer than six meetings in the calendar year, fewer than once every two months or experienced a quorum failure rate exceeding 20%, the report shall flag this and city council chairs shall address this in the next strategic planning session. It replaces it with the following. If any committee held fewer than four meetings in a calendar year, fewer than once per quarter, or experienced a quorum failure exceeding 20 percent, the report shall flag this, and the council chair shall address this cause at the next strategic planning session.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Thank you, Mr. Chair. Counsel, I would first like to start by thanking all of you, as my colleagues. This piece of legislation was hard, much harder than I ever expected. But, you know, i think today we showed we can do hard things that can be transformative for us and continue to do hard things for our city so i thank you all for leaning into the conversation and the dialogue i hope this is a step and a stronger direction for the nine of us to move forward on better working relationships so we can as minimum, keep the main thing the main thing, and that's showing up for Chattanooga. And so…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026