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- Good afternoon, everyone.

Welcome to our Tuesday, June 21st, City Council Agenda Meeting.

The pledge of allegiance and invocation, if she so desires, will be led by Vice Chair Dotley.

Thank you, Madam Vice Chair.

We do have a special presentation this evening.

I believe a proclamation will be read by Vice Chair, Raquetta Dotley.

- All right.

Hello everybody.

- [Audience In Unison] Hello.

- Hello.

This proclamation is for the late Officer Clarence Hamler.

City of Chattanooga, Office of the Mayor, Proclamation.

Whereas the people of Chattanooga, Tennessee have been fortunate through the years to have been served by those brave and dedicated law enforcement officers, who, in their efforts to serve and protect their fellow citizens, daily put their lives on the line in carrying out their duties.

And whereas, the City of Chattanooga honors the service and life of Patrolman Clarence Edward Hamler, and whereas Patrolman Clarence Hamler enjoyed a special sense of pride in being a police officer.

Likable and outgoing, he had a sense of self confidence born of his experience as a street policeman, former undercover officer, and a graduate of Tennessee State University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Sociology.

And whereas Patrolman Clarence E. Hamler was a four year veteran of the Chattanooga Police Department.

And whereas Patrolman Hamler was fatally injured, responding to an armed robbery on Sunday, August 14th, 1977, sacrificing his life for many.

Now, therefore I, Tim Kelly, Mayor of the City of Chattanooga, honor the memory of fallen Patrolman Clarence E. Hamler with this proclamation and by naming West 35th Street, from Saint Elmo Avenue to Broad Street, Commemorative Officer Clarence Hamler Street.

In witness thereof, I set my hand and cause the Seal of the City of Chattanooga to be affixed this 21st day of June, Mayor Tim Kelly.

So, I wanted to present this proclamation as well as this commemorative sign to the friends and family of Officer Clarence Hamler for sacrificing his life for many.

If it wasn't for him, several people would've died in that grocery store that day, but he sacrificed himself so that they can live.

And so, we wanna honor him today.

If y'all don't mind, if we can have a moment of silence.

Thank you so much.

And Mr. Green, if there any other family members here for Mr. Hamler, would love to present this to you today.

And Mr. Green has been working with me for over a year to try to get this done.

So, glad to be able to do it for you finally, Mr. Green.

- To this City Council, I'd like to, first of all say thank you.

Secondly, on behalf of the Hamler family and Miss Susie Burke, who is his last living relative, who is bed stricken now, she is not able to walk, she wants me to also convey to this City Council that on August the 14th of this year, it will be 45 years that Clarence was killed.

So, we wanna say thank you.

Better late than never.

- Thank you.

(audience applauds) Thank you.

- Mr. Green, thank you for coming this evening.

We'll move on to our agenda.

We'll take a motion to approve our minutes.

I have a motion to approve our minutes.

If I hear a second, the minutes will stand without objection.

Tonight, we have ordinances on final reading.

Madam Clerk, planning item A please.

- An ordinance to amend Chattanooga City code part two, chapter 38 zoning ordinance, so as to rezone property located at 2149 Crescent Club Drive from R1 residential zone to RTZ residential townhouse.

There's a lot line zone.

- [Council Member] I approve.

- I have a motion to approve.

- [Council Member 2] I approve.

- I do hear a second.

Questions, comments before we vote?

All in favor, say aye.

- [Council In Unison] Aye.

- Opposed?

Motion carries.

Item B, Madam Clerk.

- An ordinance to amend Chattanooga City code part two, chapter 38 zoning ordinance, so as to rezone property located at 1040 Gibbons Road from R-1 residential zone to R-3 residential zone, subject to certain conditions.

- Councilman Smith.

- Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

This item is in your district and without objection, I would like to offer an amendment.

This is an amendment that is actually presented by the developer, an additional restriction that they would like to place themselves on this development.

So saying that I will elect to move for approval.

- I approve.

- I do have a motion to approve.

I do hear a second.

- All right, sir.

And then I would like to move to amend and prior to taking a vote on the amendment, I do want to ask, just to confirm that once I read this amendment, that the applicant is okay with it as stated.

And the amendment is adding a condition for development prohibited on the north side of the water course within 200 feet of the eastern property line.

I'm seeing a nod.

That is in the form of a motion, sir.

- Thank you.

I have a motion to amend.

I do hear a second.

Questions, comments before we vote on the amendment?

All in favor, say aye.

- Aye.

- Opposed?

Amendment carries.

- Thank you, sir.

And now I would like to move as amended.

- I have a motion to approve as amended.

I do hear a second.

Questions, comments before we vote?

All in favor, say aye.

- Aye.

- Opposed?

Item carries as amended.

This will put this item back to first read.

Final reading will be next week.

- Thank you, sir.

- Thank you, Councilman Smith.

Madam Clerk, if there's no objection from the council on items C through I, I'll have you read these as a package please.

And I'm seeing no objection.

- Item C, in order to amend Chattanooga City code part two, chapter 38 zone ordinance, so as the rezone properties located at 101 Cedar Lane, 103 Jubilee Drive, 5959 and 5995 Brainard Road, and 5707 Lehigh Way from R-1 residential zone M-2 light industrial zone and C-2 convenience commercial zone to M-1 manufacturing zone, subject to certain conditions.

Item D, an ordinance to amend city code part two, chapter 38 zoning ordinance, so as to lift all conditions from ordinance number 13516, the previous case number 2019, 0152, for property located at 603 Airport Row.

Item E, an ordinance to amend Chattanooga City code part two, chapter 38 zoning ordinance, so as to rezone property located at 5920 Pine Grove Trail from R-1 residential zone to R-3 residential zone subject to certain conditions.

Item F, an ordiance to amend Chattanooga City code part two, chapter 38 zoning ordinance, so as to amend condition number one and ordinance number 13672, previous case number 2021, 1003030, for the properties located at 3698 and 3710 Faith Road.

Item G, an ordinance to amend Chattanooga City code part two, chapter 38 zoning ordinance, so as to rezone property located at 1412 East 49th Street from R-1 residential zone to R-2 residential zone.

Item H, an ordinance to amend Chattanooga City code part two chapter 38 zoning ordinance, so as to lift conditions from ordinance number 10349 and previous case number 1995, 0293, for the property located at 2811 Hickory Street.

Item I, an ordinance to amend Chattanooga city code part two, chapter 38 zoning ordinance, so as to rezone properties located at 1300 and 1304 Bennet Avenue from M-2, light industrial zone, to C2 convenience commercial zone, subject to certain conditions.

- Councilwoman Hill?

- [Councilwoman Hill] Move to approve.

- I have a motion to approve.

I hear a second?

Questions, comments before we vote?

All in favor, say aye.

- [Council In Unison] Aye.

- Opposed?

Item C through I carry.

Madam Clerk under ordinances first reading, planning item A.

- An to ordinance to amend Chattanooga City code part two, chapter 38 zoning ordinance, so as to rezone property located at 713 Hamilton Avenue from ERM-3 urban edge residential multi-unit zone to ECX-3 urban edge commercial mixed use zone, subject to certain conditions.

- Is the applicant present?

Is there any opposition present?

Councilwoman Hill?

- [Councilwoman Hill] I move to approve.

- I have a motion to approve.

Questions, comments before we vote?

All in favor, say aye.

- [Council In Unison] Aye.

- Opposed?

Item carries.

Madam Clerk, item B.

- An ordiance to amend Chatanooga City code part two, chapter 38 zoning ordinance, so as to rezone properties located at 3820, 3834, and 3836 Hickson Pike from R-1 residential zone and R-4 special zone, to C2 convenience commercial zone subject to certain conditions.

- Is the applicant present?

Is there any opposition present?

Councilwoman Hill?

- Thank you, Chairman.

The applicant and I have spoken and I have spoken with the neighborhood, based on that, I'm going to be moving to approve, but I am going to add one small condition to the approval, that is that new and used vehicle dealerships shall be prohibited and I have agreement from the applicant.

- [Chair] Let's move to, we'll get this on the floor for discussion.

- Okay.

Move to approve.

- I have a motion and a second.

And you would like to amend the planning commission.

- Yes.

- [Chair] Planning version number two?

- Exactly.

To read new and used vehicle dealerships shall be prohibited.

- And that is in the form of a motion for an amendment?

I do hear a second.

We are voting on the amendment.

All in favor, say aye.

- [Council In Unison] Aye.

- Opposed?

We'll now look for a motion to approve as amended.

- Move to prove... (chuckles) Motion to approve is amended.

- [Council Member] Second.

- Do you have a motion to approve as amended?

I do hear a second.

Questions, comments, before we vote?

All in favor, say aye.

- [Council In Unison] Aye.

- Opposed?

Motion carries as amended.

Thank you, Councilwoman Hill.

Madam Clerk, resolutions under economic development, Item A.

- A resolution authorized to the mayor or his designee to enter to an amendment to the contract for sale and purchase with Melvin R. Standefer and wife, Kimberly D. Standefer for substantially the form attached to extending closing date from on or before June 30th, 2022 to on or before December 30th, 2022.

- [Council Member] Move to approve.

- I have a motion to approve.

I do hear a second.

Questions, comments, before we vote?

All in favor, say aye.

- [Council In Unison] Aye.

- Opposed?

Item carries.

- Madam Clerk, Item B.

- A resolution considering short term vacation rental, application number 22, STVR 147 for property located at 1716 Vance Avenue.

- Is the applicant present?

Is there any opposition present?

I do have opposition.

Councilwoman Coonrod, I do not have an applicant.

- [Council Member] I move to deny.

- Do you have a motion to deny?

- [Council Member 2] Second.

- I do hear a second.

Questions, comments before we vote?

- [Council Member 3] I was told I could speak.

Is this correct?

- Are you in opposition?

- [Council Member] Yes.

- You know there's a motion for denial?

- What was that?

- On the floor?

No.

- [Council Member] Okay.

- I...Questions, comments before we vote?

All in favor, say aye.

- [Council In Unison] Aye.

- Opposed.

Motion is denied.

Madam Clerk, under finance, Item C. - Resolution authorized to the city treasurer to execute a contract with iGov Services for the implementation and maintenance of a citywide municipal property tax billing and collection software system for four years, beginning June 1st, 2022, for the cost of year one not to exceed $271,385 with a contingency amount of $50,000 for years 2 through 4 for an amount not to exceed $106,500 per year.

- Dr. Berz?

- [Dr. Berz] I move to approve.

- Have a motion to approve.

- [Council Member] Second.

- I do hear a second.

Questions, comments before we vote?

All those in favor, say aye.

- [Council In Unison] Aye.

- Opposed?

Item carries.

Under information technology, Madam Clerk, Item D. - A resolution authorizing the chief information officer to renew the blanket agreement with IT Pipes LLC.

for the purchase of sewer asset inspection products and services, for the second option, a one year renewal term beginning August 1st, 2022 and ending July 31st, 2023 for and amount not to exceed $60,000.

- Dr. Berz?

- [Dr. Berz] Motion approval.

- [Council Member] Second.

- I have a motion to approve.

I do have a second.

Questions, comments before we vote?

All those in favor, say aye.

- [Council In Unison] Aye.

- Opposed?

Item carries.

Under police, Madam Clerk, Item E. - A resolution authorizing the chief of police to approve and accept a grant contract with the State of Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security for a five-month term, beginning May 1st, 2022 until September 30th, 2022 for an amount not to exceed $51,500.

- Dr. Berz, I do hear a motion to approve.

I do hear a second from Dr. Berz.

Questions, comments before we vote?

All in favor, say aye.

- [Council In Unison] Aye.

- Opposed?

Item carries.

Madam Clerk, under parks and public works, Items F through H, we'll take as a package without objection, thank you.

- Item F, a resolution authorizing the administrator for the Department of Public Works to award contract number W21012101, professional services for program management of the consent, degree, implementation to Jacob's Engineering Group Inc. for year one of five with four annual renewals for an amount not to exceed 3.4 million dollars.

Item G, a resolution authorizing the administrator for the Department of Public Works to renew the professional services contract number W18001 for the support of wastewater capital improvements program for year five of five to the 19 consultant forms listed that submitted qualifications in the six different categories per their qualification package as follows: Icon Technical Services Inc., Allen and Hoshall Inc., Amec Foster Wheeler Environment & Infrastructure Inc., Arcadis Us Inc., Brown and Caldwell, Burns and McDonnell Engineering Company Inc., Barge Design Solutions Inc., C2RL Inc., CDM Smith Inc., CTI Engineers Inc., Fulghum Macindor & Associates, Inc, Gresham Smith and Partners, Hazen and Sawyer, HDR Engineering Inc., Jacobs Engineering Group Inc., Lamar Dunn and Associates, Santech Consulting Services, Inc., Volkert, Inc., and W.K.

Dixon and Company Inc.

In the amount of $10,218,924.

In Item H, a resolution authorized administrator for the Department of Public Works to erect commemorative secondary street named signs on West 35th Street from St. Elmo Avenue to Broad Street, designating this section of West 35th street as commemorative Officer Clarence Hamler Street as Patrolman Hamler was shot and killed during a robbery at a grocery store in 1977.

- Thank you, Madam Clerk.

Councilman Hester?

- [Councilman Hester] Move to approve.

- Motion to approve.

I do hear a second.

Questions, comments before we vote?

All in favor, say aye.

- [Council In Unison] Aye.

- Opposed?

Items carry.

Purchases, Mr. Goldberg.

I believe we have six purchases and two emergency purchases.

- Yes.

Five, 'cause the last two are combined.

- Roger.

- All right.

First, from the Waste Resources Division Public Works, we have a new blanket contract for mechanical services.

Two bids were received and the awards go to H&H Brown and Acme Industrial Piping, Inc.

This will be a four year contract with an annual amount not to exceed 3 million.

Second, Waste Resources Division, new blanket contract for machining fabrication-related equipment repair services.

One bid was received.

The solicitation was re-advertised, did not yield any additional bids.

The award goes to a Valley Mechanical Inc.

This will be a four year contract with an annual amount not to exceed 100,000.

Third, from police, we have a new blanket contract for ballistic body armor.

Three bids were received and the award goes to Summit Uniform Solutions, Inc. and GT distributors.

This will be a four year contract with the annual amount not to exceed 200,000 combined.

Fourth, from parks and outdoors, we have the purchase of fuel dispensers and fuel system at Irwin Marina.

This is on public property and publicly owned, managed by Irwin Marina.

One bid was received, the solicitation was readvertised, but did not yield any additional bids.

The award goes to Estes Equipment Company, Inc. and the amount is $47,198.

And lastly, from public works, we have the second final renewal of a contract for gloves.

A combination of line item price increases and decreases were submitted at the time of renewal, resulting in a net 1% decrease.

The combined annual amount is 25,000 with 16,000 going to Roll-Aid Industrial Supply and 9,000 going to D&T Trucking Company.

- Thank you, Mr. Goldberg.

You've heard tonight's purchases.

Have a motion to approve.

I have a second.

Questions, comments before we vote on tonight's purchases?

All in favor, say aye.

- [Council In Unison] Aye.

- [Chair] Opposed?

Thank you Mr. Goldberg.

We have no RFPs, but we do have two emergencies.

- Yes sir.

So the first during June of 2022, 2 payroll staff members accepted other positions outside of the payroll department.

The current temporary staffing agency is unable to provide qualified temporary candidates for payroll.

In order to maintain continuity of operations and payroll, the CFO initiated an emergency purchase on June 9th, 2022 to obtain temporary staffing from Robert Half, a firm specializing in staffing for accounting, finance, and related fields.

The emergency purchase amount is not to exceed 35,000.

The second one, on June 14th, 2022, the Department of Technology Services initiated an emergency purchase on behalf of the Chattanooga Police Department to replace six inoperable and obsolete public safety cameras.

5 additional cameras were purchased for inventory to ensure that we have replacement cameras on hand in the case of unexpected failures.

The total cost for the 11 cameras was $182,465 and 9 cents.

- [Chair] Thank you, Mr. Goldberg.

- Thank you.

- We'll now move into committee reports.

Let's see.

Councilman Henderson?

- [Councilman Henderson] No reports, sir.

All right.

Councilwoman Hill?

- The body is going to meet early on planning and zoning.

So we will have a committee meeting on the 28th of June, which is next week to go over all of our planning and zoning cases for this month.

- Very good.

Thank you, Ma'am.

Councilman Smith.

- [Councilman Smith] No report, Mr.

Chair.

- Councilman Hester?

- [Councilman Hester] No report.

- Councilwoman Coonrod?

- [Councilwoman Coonrod] No report.

- Councilwoman Noel?

- [Councilwoman Noel] No report.

- Dr. Berz?

- [Dr. Berz] No report.

- Vice Chair Dotley?

You wanna give us an update and an announcement, please?

- Yes.

I have no committee report, but our July 5th meeting will be canceled, but to make sure we stay in order, as Councilwoman Hill mentioned, our planning and zoning meeting will be June 28th, which will allow us to have first reading on July 12th.

So I wanted to make that announcement that our July 5th meeting is canceled.

Planning and zoning, as Councilwoman Hill mentioned, is June 28th, with first readings of those items being July the 12th.

- Very good.

Thank you for that announcement, Madam Vice Chair.

We are at the time.

We will recognize persons wishing to address the council this evening.

If you'd like to address the council this evening, please make your way to the podium and our Madam Attorney will read our rules.

- Good evening.

Each speaker wishing to address the council shall be recognized only at the microphone for that purpose.

The speaker may address the council only upon matters within the legislative and quasi-judicial authority of the council.

And your remarks will be limited to three minutes unless additional time is permitted.

- Good evening, council.

- Good evening.

- Ann Pierre, district nine.

Every week I look at the city council agenda and every week there are changes on the characterization of the neighborhood by changing whether it's residential, single, double, whatever.

My request to you tonight is to make a map of the city and look at what we're doing and how we're doing that.

For example, in my area, there are just different businesses.

There is a blood place on the corner now.

We have people walking through the neighborhood.

We've never seen people walking like that before.

We've had break ins and different things.

So how you set up your neighborhood determines a lot of things about crime and other issues.

The second thing I'd like to speak to you about is one that another citizen came to you about two months ago and that's our city, it is dirty.

There is paper everywhere.

People just eat.

And by the time they get to our corner, they've thrown out bags of whatever, McDonald's or whatever.

At one time the city had a campaign and I believe it was called Pitch It In.

We need to do something for these people who do not understand that you should not throw paper on the street.

Or every day somebody needs to come out and pick the paper up.

So I'll leave that with you to choose which one is most economical as to what we do about our citizens and how we determine whether our city is going to be clean or it's going to be dirty because how you keep your city, how you keep your property, has a great effect on what people think about us as citizens of Chattanooga.

Thank you.

- Thank you, Reverend Pierre.

(council applauds) Evening.

Anyone else wish to address the council this evening?

Council, I am seeing one other person coming.

- Good evening.

- Good evening.

- My name is LaTonya Higgins and this is Alfred Beamon.

We have came, well, I have came to you guys, I went to Mayor Tim Kelly's office about a year ago, or when he first came into the system out in Hickson.

I have been to the county council meeting as well.

This man and I have been stalked all over Chattanooga, everywhere we go, we are being watched.

We're being followed.

My name has been defiled to stop me from getting a certain type of job or whatever.

He's obtained something else that I'll talk to somebody else about, but our main problem is this man is fighting bone cancer and all the unnecessary with the dirty cops trying to intimidate us and all other things going on and we don't appreciate it at all.

And we've been complaining about it for almost five years now, and it seemed to get worse every time I come and stand in front of you guys, it get worse and worse.

So if you guys can do something about it, I even spoke with the new police chief about it.

When I spoke with her at Evandale center, same day, it was worse.

A cop was sitting in the middle of the street.

I'm going to my job.

He's sitting in the middle of the street by Montague park.

He would not move out the middle of the street.

So I went around him.

When I went around him, he turned on his lights and I was like, I wish you would pull me over because I did nothing wrong.

I'm coming down the street on the right side of the street.

Today, he picked me up from work, cop followed us from over off main street to McCauley school.

And I am not scared of the police.

I have no reason to be scared of the police.

So the little intimidation tactics, I came to you guys, like I said, this may be my third time here.

I don't appreciate it within the last five years.

I don't appreciate it at all.

And neither does he.

I'm trying to take care of this man.

He's in remission and we wanted to keep it that way.

(council applauds) - Anyone else wish to address the council this evening?

Council?

I do not see anyone.

- Move to adjourn.

- We are adjourned.

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