June 8th, 2021
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Highlights from Chattanooga's city council meeting for June 8th, 2021.
Highlights from Chattanooga's weekly city council meeting for Tuesday, June 8th, 2021. Topics include concerns of zoning.
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June 8th, 2021
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Highlights from Chattanooga's weekly city council meeting for Tuesday, June 8th, 2021. Topics include concerns of zoning.
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(upbeat music) - [Narrator] You're watching highlights of the City Council meeting, a production of WTCI PBS.
(gavel bangs) - Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, welcome to our Tuesday, June the 8th city council meeting.
I now call this meeting to order.
If you would please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.
- [Council] I pledge allegiance 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.
- Reading from Daniel 9:17, "Now therefore, our God, hear the prayer "of thy servant and his supplications "and cause your face to shine upon your sanctuary."
Would you bow with me in prayer?
God, we ask for your wisdom and guidance in the decisions that we need to make tonight.
In your name we pray, amen.
Turning now to ordinances on final reading.
Madam Clerk, since these are both on final reading, would you please read 5A and B together, please.
- [Clerk] An ordinance, item A an ordinance of providing for an Interim Budget and appropriating funds for the usual and ordinary expenses of the City government for the months of July, August and September 2021, pending the adoption of the 2021-2022 annual budget.
Item B, an ordinance closing and abandoning a sewer easement located in the 1100 block of West 33rd Street, as detailed on the attachment.
So be to certain conditions.
- Councilwoman Berz!
- Move approval.
- We have a motion on the floor to approve items 5A and B with a proper second.
Any questions or comments before we vote?
Roll call please.
- Councilwoman Hill!
- Yes.
- Councilman Ledford!
- Yes.
- Councilman Hester!
- Yes - Councilwoman Berz!
- Yes.
- Councilwoman Dotley!
- Yes.
- Councilman Byrd!
- Yes.
- Vice Chairman Smith?
- Yes.
- Chairman Henderson?
- Yes.
- Eight yeses.
- So moved.
Mr. Bridger would you mind to join us at the podium in the event that you're needed as we move into our planning items for this afternoon.
Moving now to item 6A, Madam Clerk.
- [Clerk] An ordinance to amend Chattanooga City Code, Part II Chapter 38, Zoning Ordinance, so as the rezone part of a property located at 900 Birmingham Highway from M-1 Manufacturing Zone to M-2 Light Industrial Zone.
- Is the applicant present?
Okay, is there any opposition present?
Seen no opposition to this.
What's the pleasure of the council?
Councilman Vice Chair Smith?
- Thank you, Mr.
Chair, this is in your district and with no opposition, I move approval.
- Thank you, sir.
We have a motion on the floor to approve item 6A with a proper second questions or comments?
Okay, roll call please.
- [Clerk] Councilman Byrd!
- [Byrd] Yes.
- Councilwoman Dotley!
- Yes.
- Councilwoman Berz!
- Yes.
- Councilman Hester!
- Yes.
- Councilman Ledford!
- Yes.
- Councilwoman Hill!
- Yes.
- Vice Chairman Smith!
- Yes.
- Chairman Henderson?
- Yes.
- Eight Yeses.
- Motion carries eight zero.
Now moving to 6B please.
- An ordinance to amend Chattanooga City Code, Part II, Chapter 38, Zoning Ordinance, so as to rezone part of a property located at Highway 58, from RT-1 Residential Townhouse Zone to R-3 Residential Zone, subject to certain conditions.
- Is the applicant present?
Is there any opposition present?
Mr. Vice Chair?
- Thank you Mr.
Chair.
John, would you mind reading the certain conditions into the record please?
- Sure, be happy to, just one second.
Okay, basically it's one condition subject to the building height limited to two and a half stories or 35 feet.
- Great, I spoke to the applicant earlier today.
They are amenable to this condition and with no opposition, I move approval.
- Do we have a motion on the floor with a proper second to approve item 6B, questions or comments before we vote?
Roll call please.
- Counselwoman Hill!
- Yes.
- Councilman Ledford!
- Yes - Councilman Hester!
- Yes.
- Councilwoman Berz!
- Yes.
- Councilwoman Dotley!
- Yes.
- Councilman Byrd!
- Yes.
- Vice Chairman Smith!
- Yes.
- Chairman Henderson!
- Yes.
- Eight yeses.
- So moved.
C please.
- An ordinance to amend Chattanooga City Code, Part II, Chapter 38, Zoning Ordinance, so as to rezone property located at 5048 Irvin Road, from R-1 Residential Zone to A-1 Urban Agriculture Zone, subject to certain conditions.
- Is the applicant present?
Is there any opposition present?
Councilman Hester?
- After careful consideration I've spoken to the applicant.
I spoke to the neighbors and at this point I think we're going to have to deny that request.
It changes the total dynamic of the neighborhood, but in time they will revisit this, thank you.
- Is that in the form of a motion sir?
- [Hester] Yes sir.
- Okay, we have a motion on the floor to deny with a proper second.
Any questions or comments before we vote?
Okay, roll call please.
- Councilmen Byrd!
- Yes.
- Councilwoman Dotley!
- Yes.
- Councilwoman Berz!
- Yes.
- Councilman Hester!
- Yes.
- Councilman Ledford!
- Yes.
- Councilwoman Hill!
- Yes.
- Vice Chairman Smith!
- Yes.
- Chairman Henderson!
- Yes.
- [Clerk] Eight yeses.
- Motion to deny carries eight to zero.
Moving now to 6D please.
- An ordinance to amend Chattanooga City Code, Part II, Chapter 38, Zoning Ordinance, so as to lift condition number five, all existing easements be retained, from Ordinance No.
11522 of previous Case No.
2004-0016, from property located at 8001 Volkswagen Drive, more particularly described herein.
- Is the applicant present?
Okay, is there any opposition present?
Councilwoman Berz!
- Move to approve.
- Second.
- We have a motion on the floor to approve 6D with a proper second.
Any questions or comments before we vote?
Roll call please.
- Councilwoman Hill!
- Yes.
- Counsilman Ledford!
- Yes.
- Counsilman Hester!
- Yes.
- Councilwoman Berz!
- Yes - Councilwoman Dotley!
- Yes.
- Councilman Byrd!
- Yes.
- Vice Chairman Smith!
- Yes.
- Chairman Henderson!
- Yes.
- Eight yeses.
- So moved.
6E please.
- An ordinance to amend Chattanooga City Code, Part II, Chapter 38, Zoning Ordinance, so as to rezone properties located at 2500 and 2502 Bailey Avenue, from R-2 Residential Zone to R-T/Z Residential Townhouse/Zero Lot Line Zone, subject to certain conditions.
- Is the applicant present?
Is there any opposition present for this item?
Councilman Ledford.
- [Ledford] Thank you, Mr.
Chair.
I seen Councilman Coonrod is not in attendance.
John you wanna read the conditions for this please.
- Sure, it's approved subject to one condition parking to the side or rear only and access from the existing alley.
- Very good, move to approve.
Okay, we have a motion on the floor to approve with a proper second.
Any questions or comments before we vote?
Roll call please.
- Councilman Byrd!
- Yes.
- Councilwoman Dotley!
- Yes.
- Councilwoman Berz!
- Yes.
- Councilman Hester!
- Yes.
- Councilman Ledford!
- Yes.
- Councilwoman Hill!
- Yes.
- Vice Chairman Smith!
- Yes.
- Chairman Henderson!
- Yes.
- Eight yeses.
- Motion to approve, 6E carries eight zero.
F please.
- An ordinance to amend Chattanooga City Code, Part II, Chapter 38, Zoning Ordinance, so as to rezone properties located at 2314, 2316, 2505, 2509, 2510, and 2513 E. 17th Street, 2500 and 2513 E. 18th Street, 2420 and 2502 E. 21st Street, 2005 S. Lyerly Street, and 1607 and 1611 S. Watkins Street, from C-2 Convenience Commercial Zone, M-1 Manufacturing Zone, M-3 Warehouse and Wholesale Zone, and R-2 Residential Zone to C-3 Central Business Zone, subject to certain conditions.
- Is the applicant for this request present?
Okay, is there any opposition to this request present?
- Very odd, very odd.
Important project in district nine.
I know a lot of thought has gone into this is the applicant amenable to the conditions?
Then I will move to approve.
- Second.
- Okay, we have a motion on the floor to approve 6F with a proper second.
Any questions or comments before we vote?
If not, roll call please.
- Councilwoman Hill!
- Yes.
- Councilman Ledford!
- Yes.
- Councilman Hester!
- Yes.
- Councilwoman Berz!
- Yes.
- Councilwoman Dotley!
- Yes.
- Councilman Byrd!
- Yes.
- Vice Chairman Smith!
- Yes.
- Chairman Henderson!
- Yes.
- Eight yeses.
- So moved.
- Chairman if I may, I want to add a note as a setup for the next couple of months.
We're actually doing a C-3 text amendment so we don't have to do this every time.
- Oh good.
- So just know, this is the why we're doing it.
So it creates a more sip, standardized process so they're not having to create conditions for every case.
So just know that's coming your way.
- Thank you.
Madam clerk, let's take 6G now please.
- An ordinance amending Chattanooga City Code, Part II, Chapter 38, Article XVI, Downtown Chattanooga Form Based Code, Division 11, Signs, Section 38-753, Sign Types, two, Projecting Signs and A, Max Square Footage.
- Councilman Ledford.
- [Ledford] Move to approve chairman.
- Second.
- Okay, we have a motion on the floor to approve where the proper second questions or comments before we vote?
Okay, roll call please.
- Councilman Byrd!
- Yes.
- Councilwoman Dotley!
- Yes.
- Councilwoman Berz!
- Yes.
- Councilman Hester!
- Yes.
- Councilman Ledford?
- Yes.
- Councilwoman Hill!
- Yes.
- Vice Chairman Smith!
- Yes.
- Chairman Henderson!
- Yes.
- Eight yeses.
- Motion to approve 6G carries eight to zero.
That gets us through our planning items for this afternoon.
Now moving into resolutions.
Madam Clerk, with no objection from the Council I would ask you to read 7A and B together please.
- Item A, resolution authorizing the Mayor or his designee to enter into a First Agreement to Exercise Option to Renew with Hamilton County Mental Health Court, in substantially the form attached, for the continued use of 108 square feet of office space in a portion of the Family Justice Center located at 5705 Uptain Road, identified as Tax Parcel No.
157M-A-012, for an additional term of two years through the date of June 30, 2023, for the amount of $2,376.00 per term.
Item B, a resolution authorizing a Seventh Supplement to Resolution No.
22629, providing for the issuance of City of Chattanooga, Tennessee, Electric System Revenue Bonds, Series 2021, for an amount up to $75 million.
- Councilwoman Berz followed by Councilman Ledford.
- Move approval.
- Second.
- We have a motion on the floor to approve items 7A and B with a proper second.
Any questions or comments before we vote?
Roll call please.
- Councilwoman Hill!
- Yes.
- Councilman Ledford!
- Yes.
- Councilman Hester!
- Yes - Councilwoman Berz!
- Yes.
- Councilwoman Dotley!
- Yes.
- Councilman Byrd!
- Yes.
- Vice Chairman Smith!
- Yes.
- Chairman Henderson!
- Yes.
- [Clerk] Eight yeses.
- Motion to approve Seven A and B does carry eight zero.
Moving now to the Mayor's office.
Madam Clerk, would you please read under 7C the original version that we read at our agenda session please?
- [Clerk] Yes.
A resolution confirming the Mayor's Reorganization of the Government Plan.
- [Chair] Councilwoman Berz.
- Move approval.
- Second.
- [Chair] We have a motion on the floor to approve with a proper second.
Any questions or comments before we vote?
Okay, roll call please.
- Councilman Byrd!
- Yes - Councilwoman Dotley!
- Yes.
- Councilwoman Berz!
- Yes.
- Councilman Hester!
- Yes - Councilman Ledford!
- Yes.
- Councilwoman Hill!
- Yes.
- Vice Chairman Smith!
- Yes.
- Chairman Henderson!
- Yes.
- [Clerk] Eight yeses.
- [Chair] Motion to approve, 7C carries eight zero.
D please.
- A resolution confirming the Mayor's appointments of the following Charter positions: Fire Chief Phil Hyman, Police Chief David Roddy, City Finance Officer Daisy W. Madison, and Interim Treasurer Tanikia Jackson for the City of Chattanooga.
- Councilwoman Berz followed by Councilman Ledford.
- Move approval.
- Second.
- We have a motion on the floor to approve 7D with a proper second, questions or comments before we vote?
Madam Clerk, roll call please.
- Councilman Byrd!
- Yes.
- Councilwoman Dotley!
- Yes.
- Councilwoman Berz!
- Yes.
- Councilman Hester!
- Yes.
- Councilman Ledford!
- Yes.
- Councilwoman Hill!
- Yes.
- Vice Chairman Smith!
- Yes.
- Chairman Henderson!
- Yes.
- [Clerk] That's eight yeses.
- Motion carries.
Congratulations, ladies and gentlemen that were just appointed to your positions.
Miss Daisy do you have anything to say?
- [Daisy] No.
- I was just kidding.
(laughs) Okay, 7E please.
- A resolution confirming the Mayor's appointments of Leanne Kenny, Clifton McCormick, and Piper Stromit to the Chattanooga Historic Zoning Commission.
- What is the pleasure of the council?
- Move to approve.
- Second.
- We have a motion on the floor to approve with a proper second questions or comments before we vote.
Roll call please.
- Councilwoman Hill!
- Yes.
- Councilman Ledford!
- Yes.
- Councilman Hester!
- Yes.
- Councilwoman Berz!
- Yes.
- Councilwoman Dotley!
- Yes.
- Councilman Byrd!
- Yes.
- Vice Chairman Smith!
- Yes.
- Chairman Henderson!
- Yes.
- Eight yeses.
- So moved, now Madam Clerk under Public Works if there are no objections, Public Works and Youth and Family Development.
Would you please read F, G and H?
- Item F, a resolution authorizing the Administrator for the Department of Public Works to renew year three of a four-year term for the blanket contract for professional services for the continuum On-Call Environmental Consulting Services for asbestos, lead, indoor air quality and other environmental assessments contract number E-19-002-301 for the following eight consulting firms: one, S&ME Inc., Two, Alternative Actions Inc., three, Spectra Tech Inc., four, KS Ware and Associates, LLC, five, GLE Associates Inc., six, EnSafe Inc., seven, Wood, Wood Environment and Infrastructure Solutions, Inc, and eight, Cross Environmental Services, LLC for an amount not to exceed $350,000.
Item G, a resolution authorizing the Mayor to execute an agreement with Hamilton County relative to the Court Community Service program for Fiscal Year 2021 through 2022 between the city of Chattanooga Hamilton County for an amount not to exceed $60,000.
Item H, a resolution authorizing the Administrator for the Department of Youth and Family Development to enter into a concession services contract with Top Shelf Concessions to provide reasonable price, reasonably priced concessions for the Warner Park Pool, Summit of Softball Complex, and various recreational programs and events.
- What is the pleasure of the council?
- Move to approve.
- Second - We have a motion on the floor to approve items Seven F, G and H with a proper second.
Any questions or comments before we vote?
Madam Clerk, roll call please.
- Councilman Byrd?
- Yes.
- Councilwoman Dotley!
- Yes.
- Councilwoman Berz!
- Yes.
- Councilman Hester!
- Yes.
- Councilman Ledford!
- Yes.
- Councilwoman Hill!
- Yes.
- Vice Chairman Smith!
- Yes.
- Chairman Henderson!
- Yes.
- Eight yeses.
- Motion carries.
Now moving to purchases, Council if you will pull out your purchase sheet, Chief if you'll come to the podium.
- Yes, sir.
- View tonight's purchases, sir.
- Yeah, we have six purchases tonight.
The first is waste resources division, new blanket contract for flow meter instrumentation maintenance support and replacement.
Contract is for 12 months with the option to renew for two additional 12-month terms out of four bidders the award will go to tri-state electrical contractors as the best bid meeting specifications with an annual amount not to exceed $70,000.
The second is also with waste resources division.
It's a purchase of one motor control center and one non-automatic transfer switch.
Out of four bidders the award will go to Inline Electric Supply as the best bid meaning specifications with a cost of $225,425.
Third, we have a facilities division.
First of two renewal options with PPG Architectural Finishes and Sherwin Williams for paint and paint supplies.
PPG Architectural Finishes submitted a 17% price increase at the time of renewal for new annual amount of $90,000.
The increase is recommended for approval.
Next to city-wide services new blanket contract for masonry materials for local pickup contract is for 12 months with the option to renew for two additional 12 month terms the original bid opening date of May 20th, 2021 received only one bid.
Direct solicitations were sent to eight vendors.
The bid was readvertised where the new bid opening date of May 27th, 2021 and there were no other bids received.
Therefore the award will go to TT Wilson Company as the best bid meaning specifications with the annual amount not to exceed $35,000.
Number five is citywide services.
Second final renewal with Evan's Lumber Company for lumber and lumber products.
Evan's Lumber Company submitted a 51.6% price increase at the time of renewal for a new annual amount, not to exceed $75,000.
The increase is consistent with increases from all suppliers of building materials throughout the market.
The increase is recommended for approval.
And finally we have from the purchasing department the second final renewal with Interstate Business Solution, Staples Business Advantage and American Paper and Twine for multi-purpose printing paper.
Interstate Business Solution submitted an 11% price increase at the time of renewal and American Paper and Twine submitted a 14% price increase at the time of renewal for new annual amount of $60,000.
The increases are recommended for approval.
We have no RFPs tonight and we do have one emergency purchase.
- What's the pleasure of the Council.
- Approve.
- Second.
- We have a motion on the floor to approve tonight's purchases with a proper second.
Any questions or comments before we vote?
Roll call please.
- Councilwoman Hill!
- Yes.
- Councilman Ledford!
- Yes.
- Councilman Hester!
- Yes.
- Councilwoman Berz!
- Yes.
- Councilwoman Dotley!
- Yes.
- Councilman Byrd!
- Yes.
- Vice Chairman Smith!
- Yes.
- Chairman Henderson!
- Yes.
- Eight yeses.
- Motion to approve carries.
- Then shall I read the emergency purchase?
- Please.
- The recreation division of Youth and Family Development bypass the normal purchasing process and initiated an emergency purchase with landscapes of the South for irrigation repair at the summit ball fields.
The emergency repair was necessary to prevent additional costs for future repairs of the grass portion of the fields.
The amount of the emergency purchase was $4,576.
- Thank you, sir.
- Thank you.
- That concludes tonight's purchases under committee reports.
Do I have any committee chair at this time that needs to report?
Okay, moving now to other business.
I think we do have one appointment tonight to the board of zoning appeals, Councilman Hester.
- I recommended the approval of the appointment of Rudolph Foster to the Board of Zoning Appeals.
- Very well, Madam clerk.
You have that on record?
- Yes.
- Thank you.
Thank you, sir.
That concludes tonight's agenda.
We now do move to persons wishing to address the council this evening.
Do we have anybody that would like to address the council?
Would you just raise your hands and okay.
- Sylvester Harris, 3300 Curtis Street.
- Good to see Mr. Harris.
- Hey Good to see all y'all and congratulations to Byrd.
He's my Councilman in my neighborhood, and congratulations to everybody that won and the new people too.
And I'm looking forward for y'all doing a good job and making this city all it can be.
'Cause that's the main thing.
One thing I want to address where they talked about policing and I appreciate Mr. Byrd, he nominated me for the police advisory board.
Yeah, we got problems.
What we got to do is all roped together in the city.
We meet the first Thursday every month some kind of way.
We have to invite some of the people in our CP and others that wants to come and attend this.
When they can see how this is run I'm for everybody.
I don't care if you black or white, if you being abused by the police, we got to do something about it.
That's just the bottom line.
We can't live in this country and have that kind of activity.
Yes, we got some bad apples.
I see it a lot of times I asked for the body cam, I say, "I wanna see it 'cause I want to see what happened."
I don't like everything I see and sometime some things you see is, you know it's hard to be an officer.
I'm gonna tell you, I see some things that I said, "If I was an officer, I don't know if I could handle it."
But that being said, we got to work together.
We got to come together and try to weed out the bad apples and bring in the good weeds and you know the good flowers and we can all move forward.
That's a hard job, but it can be done.
This is America.
One of the best countries in the world.
And if we can't do it, it's sad.
We gotta move forward.
But I would like people to attend some of these meetings we have the first Thursday in every month and see for yourself, what we're doing.
I'll bat for you.
I don't care what color you are.
If you're being abused by anybody especially the police department, you know somehow let us know and let your councilman know and they will get with us and we'll try to look into this, and see what happened.
That's the best we can try to do, but we can make this happen.
Nobody shouldn't live in fear by the police or anybody.
If you've got a problem, let your councilman know and we'll try to work.
'Cause a lot of times people are scared to step forward because they're scared to be intimidated.
But if you are just step forward, tell your Councilman and we'll work together as a team and try to make you be safe as you can possibly be in this city 'cause Chattanooga could be a good city.
I was looking at something and it was saying that I don't know how the old this was but we was a third I think in homicides or something they said, I thought, oh, that's terrible.
We gotta work hard and with the new administration hopefully everything will get better.
Thank y'all for y'all time, and congratulations to the new board.
- [Chair] Mr. Harris you want to let everybody know where and what time you meet.
- We starting to meet here inside the, what you call that room?
- [Chair] The conference room?
The conference room here?
- The conference room, every Thursday, not the first Thursday in the every month.
First of the month, every Thursday.
Put that on your calendar- - What time?
- At nine o'clock.
- Nine o'clock - Thank you sir.
- Be free to come, yeah.
I don't make rules, I just go by them, but you know.
- Thank you, sir, thank you Mr. Harris.
- [Harris] Thank y'all.
- All right, any anyone else that would like to address the Council this afternoon?
Anyone else?
What's the pleasure of the council?
- [Council] We adjourn.
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