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(upbeat music) - [Chair] We have a special presentation order of business for city council, but I believe that will stand as our proceeding items and we'll take a motion for our minutes and the minutes have been approved I do hear a second to those, they will stand without objection.

With that council objection on ordinances on final reading planning items A through E we will take as a package this evening.

E special note we covered in 3:30 is the staff version with an added amendment version from Councilwoman Coonrod and that has been verified a number of times this evening.

So Madame Clerk, will you please read planning items A through E and we will take those as a package.

- [Clerk] Yes, Item A, an ordinance to amend Chattanooga City Co part two chapter 38 zoning ordinance so as to re-zone properties located at 401 Central Avenue and 1048 East 4th Street from R4 Special Zone and UGC Urban General Commercial Zone subject to certain conditions.

Item B an ordinance to amend Chattanooga City Co part two chapter 38, zoning ordinance so as to rezone property located at 1117 East 14th Street and an unaddressed property in the 1100 block of East 14th Street from R3 residential zone to RTZ residential Child House zero lot line zone subject to certain conditions.

Item C, an ordinance to amend Chattanooga City Co part two chapter 38 zoning ordinance.

So ES thee zone properties located at 1027 and 1029 East 14th Street from R3 residential zone to UGC Urban General Commercial Zone subject to certain conditions.

Item D an ordinance to in Chattanooga City Co part two chapter 38, Zoning ordinance.

So rezone properties located at 1200, 1202 and 1204 East 13th Street from R3 residential zone, UGC Urban General Commercial zone subject certain conditions.

Item E an ordinance to amend Chattanooga City Co part two chapter 38, zoning ordinance.

So regional property located at 107 South Germantown Road from R1 Residential Zone to RTZ Residential Town House Lot lines on subject certain conditions.

- [Chair] Councilwoman Coonrad followed by Councilwoman Hill.

- Second.

- [Chair] Have a motion to approve.

I do hear a second to that motion questions, comments on items A through E. All in favor say, aye.

- Aye.

- Opposed?

Items do carry.

Madame Clerk ordinances on first reading Public Works item A please.

- [Clerk] An ordinance closing and abandoning at pedestrian easement on property located at 715 Market Street as detailed on the attached map subject to certain conditions.

- Madame Vice chair.

- Move to approve.

- Have a motion to approve.

I do have a second to that motion.

Questions, comments before we vote?

All those in favor say aye.

- Aye.

- Opposed?

Item carries under resolutions this evening.

Madame Clerk community development item A please.

- A resolution authorizing the administrator for the Department of Community Development to apply for and if awarded, accept the Department of Housing and Urban Development, HUD lead hazard control and healthy homes older adults Home modification grant program funds for low income elderly homeowners to remain in their homes through low cost, low barrier, high impact home modifications to improve their functional abilities and their home and to enable them to age in place instead of moving to nursing homes or other assisted care facilities for amount up to $500,000.

- Madame Buts, chair.

- Move to approve.

- Motion to approve and a second to that motion.

Questions, comments before we vote?

All those in favor say, aye.

- Aye.

- Opposed?

Item carries under finance.

Item B, Madame Clerk.

- A Resolution to amend the debt management policy so as to allow for certain federal and state loan programs.

- Dr. Burs.

- Approve.

- Motion to approve, have a second to that motion.

Questions, comments before we vote?

All those in favor say, aye.

- Aye.

- Opposed?

Item carries.

Item C please.

- A resolution authorizing and providing for the issuance and sale a sewer revenue bonds providing for the collection and disposition of revenues from the sewer system of the city of Chattanooga, Tennessee and making provision for the operation said system and the issuance of indebtedness of said system.

- Dr. Burs, motion to approve?

Do you have a second to that motion?

Questions, comments before we vote?

All those in favor say, aye.

- Aye.

- Opposed?

Item carries.

Item D please.

- An initial resolution authorizing and providing for the issuance and sale of sewer revenue bonds in an aggregate principle amount not to exceed $186,800,000 for the city of Chattanooga, Tennessee.

- Dr. Burs.

- Approve.

- Motion to approve.

Do you have second multiple seconds to that motion?

All those in favor say, aye.

If there are no questions or comments.

Thank you.

Opposed?

Item does carry.

Item E please, Madame Clerk.

- This item has a blank in it, do I need to?

- Go ahead and read that and I'm anticipating an amendment, ma'am.

- A resolution supplementing and a menu resolution number to authorize the execution terms and delivery of a loan agreement by and between the city of Chattanooga, Tennessee and the United States Environmental Protection Agency acting by and through the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to which a loan will be provided in a principle amount not to exceed $186,800,000 providing for the financing of certain sewer system projects owned by or at least two and operated by the city of Chattanooga, Tennessee and to authorize the execution terms issuing sale and payment of one or more sewer revenue bonds in connection with or as evidence of said loan agreement.

- Councilwoman Hill.

- Move to approve.

- Have a motion to approve.

I do have a second to that motion.

- Mr.

Chair, I move to amend.

I'd like to add resolution number 31332.

- I have a motion to amend by adding the number 31332.

I have a second to that motion.

Questions, comments on the amendment proposal.

All those in favor say, aye on the amendment.

- Aye.

- Opposed?

I'll entertain a motion to approve as amended.

- Move to approve as amended.

- We have a motion to approve as amended.

I have a second to that motion.

Questions, comments before we vote?

All those in favor say, aye.

- Aye.

- Opposed?

Item carries as amended.

Thank you, Councilwoman under Mayor's office.

Madame Clerk, we have several appointments this evening.

Let's start with F and then I'll take the rest as a package please.

- A resolution confirming Mayor Carries appointment original Washington to the beer and record board for District eight four term beginning on October 19th, 2022, and ending on October 18th, 2025.

- Councilwoman Noel.

- Thank you Mr.

Chair.

Mr. Washington is here, will you stand please?

Thank you.

It feels so good Mr. Washington to have that if you don't have to beg and plead for someone to serve on a board.

So I am so grateful for your willingness to do that and also the city is grateful as well, so thank you.

I appreciate it.

- All right, I'm gonna take that as a motion to approve.

- It is a motion to approve.

- We do have a second to that.

Thank you, sir.

Questions, comments before we vote?

All those in favor say, aye.

- Aye.

- Opposed?

Item carries.

Thank you sir.

Madame Clerk, will you please read without objections from council, items G H I J K L M N O and we will take those as a package.

- Item G, a resolution confirming Mary Kelly's appointment of Corey Bishop to the head start governing board for a term beginning on October 19th, 2022, and ending on October 18th, 2024.

Item H, a resolution confirming Mary Kelly's reappointment of Marion Quarrels to the Board of Plumbing Examiners for a term beginning on October 19th, 2022, and ending on October 18th, 2024.

Item I, a resolution confirming Mary Kelly's reappointment of Michael Webb to the Board of Plumbing Examiners for term beginning on October 19th, 2022, ending on October 18th, 2024.

Item J, a resolution confirming Mary Kelly's appointment of Paul Norman Judd to the Board of Plumbing Examiners for a term beginning on October 19th, 2022, ending on October 18th, 2024.

Item K, a resolution confirming Mary Kelly's appointment, appointment of Marion Quarrels to the Board of Gas Examiners for a term beginning on October 19th, 2022 and ending on October 18th, 2024.

Item L, a resolution confirming Mayor Kelly's appointment of Paul Norman Judd to the board of Gas Examiners for a term begin on October 19th, 2022, and ending on October 18th, 2024.

Item M, a resolution confirming Mary Kelly's appointment of Darren Molton to the Board of Gas Examiners for a term beginning on October 19th, 2022, and ending on October 18th, 2024.

Item N, a resolution confirming Mary Kelly's appointment of Marvin Brewster to the Board of Electrical Examiners for a term beginning on October 19th, 2022 and ending on October 18th, 2024.

Item O, a resolution confirming Mayor Kelly's reappointment of Larry Daniels to the board of Mechanical Examiners for a term begin on October 19th, 2022, and ending in October 18th, 2026.

(background chatter) - I do hear a motion to approve,` I do hear a second to that motion.

Are there any questions or comments before we vote?

Let me just take this opportunity.

Are there any appointees or re appointments here with us this evening?

It's not necessary that you attend, but I wanted to take the opportunity to thank you for serving our great city and also the good work being done by Mr. Anderson for helping find these appointees and for council and going into your districts and finding folks that are willing to service.

Councilwoman Noel said this is a great service to your city and we appreciate you very much and don't ever think we don't 'cause we truly value you and we thank you for being part of the team and sacrificing your time away from your family and your work to help us be a better city.

So without objection to the motion for approval, all those in favor say, aye.

- Aye.

- Opposed?

Items and appointments and re-appointments do carry.

Thank you so much.

Madame Clerk, under Public Works Item P please.

- A resolution amending resolution number 31109 for Geo Environmental Consulting and Materials testing services, contract number E21002301 to increase the estimated amount of $950,000 due to additional contract utilization at Fire Station 15, Fire Station Bay Floor and Driveway Apron replacements, Riverbank stabilization for sanitary sewer Interceptor Limerick Park, Jack Benson Park Parking Lot, Batters Place, Pickle Ball, Courts Low Barrier Housing, EV charging stations, North Lee Highway Culvert Replacement, Enterprise South Industrial Park, Brain at Levy and Parks 88 Sidewalk compliance for a revised contract amount of 1.7 million.

- Councilman Hester.

- Moves to approve.

- Have a motion to approve, I do have a second to that motion.

Questions, comments before we vote?

All those in favor say, aye.

- Aye.

- Opposed?

Thank you very much.

Item Q please.

- A resolution authorizing the administrator for the Department of Public Works to approve change order number one with payment technology aim to reconcile final quantities for contract number T20011, Asphalt rejuvenation services associated with Citywide Payment Management for an increase in the amount of $23,635.60 for revised contract amount of $249,100.

- Councilman Hester.

- Move to approve.

- Have a motion to approve.

Do I have a second to that motion?

Questions, comments before we vote?

All those in favor say, aye.

- Aye.

- Opposed?

That will conclude our resolutions and ordinances for this evening.

Mr. Goldberg.

I believe we have 13 purchases to contract renewals, zero emergency purchases, zero RFPs, and a partridge in a pear tree.

- Correct.

So 13 purchases recommended for approval.

The first is wastewater division Public Works request for a three month extension of a contract for locating and marking services for underground utilities.

The extension will allow for additional time to bid the services, no money will be added.

The amount remains at 385,000.

The vendor is USIC, Locating Services llc.

Second item from Wastewater Division is another three month extension of the contract for liquid sodium bisulfate.

This extension will allow for additional time to bid.

The vendor is Southern Ionics and a price increase of 36% was submitted for the extension for an increase of $350,000 in a new annual amount not to exceed 1,330 500.

Third from Street Maintenance division requesting increase contract for Asphaltic concrete due to the use of the contract for other budgeted capital projects, including the Brainer Golf course the increase is 400,000 for a new annual amount not to exceed 975,000.

Next from the Fire Department we have the purchase of engine exhaust removal systems to replace old systems in nine fire stations.

This purchase will utilize GSA contract GL007F0437M.

The amount is $219,777.

Fifth item from Fleet Management Division of Public Works, two new blanket contracts for tires for small and light duty vehicles.

Three bids were received in the award goes to East Ridge Fast Lube and Highland Tire and Auto Center.

These will be four year contracts with annual awards of 150,000 each to each vendor for a combined annual amount not to exceed 300,000.

Next from the fleet management division, new blanket contract for Peterbilt OEM truck parts and service, this is a sole source procurement from the Peterbilt store, the sole provider of OEM parts and service in our area.

This will be a four year contract with an annual amount not to exceed 85,000.

Next, from Human Resources, we have a new blanket contract for actuarial and financial reporting services for the general pension plan.

There was only one response to the RFQ and it was from the incumbent.

The award goes to Kavanaugh McDonald Consulting as the sole qualified respondent.

This will be a four year contract with annual amount not to exceed 60,000.

The next three are all from the library.

I think these are the first purchases we've had for the library since we changed the way we're doing these.

The first one is a 12 month extension of a contract for Envision Wear software providing annual maintenance and integration for the Patron computer reservation system.

The vendor is in Visionwear Inc and the annual amount is not to exceed 65,000.

The next is a 24 month extension of a contract for the Overdrive platform and materials for library patron use.

This extension aligns to the auto renewal provision within the agreement.

The platform provides online digital resources for library patron use including streaming and downloading library materials.

The vendor is Overdrive Inc. And the annual amount is not to exceed 400,000.

And last one from the library is a 12 month extension of the contract for Hoopla online streaming platform for library patron use.

This platform provides online digital resources for library patron use, including streaming, downloading library materials.

The vendor is Midwest Tape and the annual amount is not to exceed 400,000.

Next from the city attorney's office, we have a one year blanket contract with two optional renewals.

The one year contract with optional renewals matches the contract through the cooperative contract with Omnia Partners, contract number 1325, which is the contract we are utilizing for the purchase.

The vendor is Iron Mountain Information Management and the annual amount is not to exceed 75,000.

And this is for information management services.

Next, from fleet management division, new blanket contracts for federal signal lighting equipment and installation for CPD vehicles.

Three bids were received and the award goes to On Duty Depot for an annual amount not to exceed 60,000 and Truckers Lighthouse, Inc. For an annual amount not to exceed 68,000 for combined annual amount not to exceed 128,000.

And lastly, from the wastewater division, we have a request to increase contract for road plating services due to increased usage of the contract.

The vendor is TNT Concrete llc and the increase is 100,000 for a new annual amount not to exceed 145,000.

- Thank you, Mr. Goldberg.

Do I hear a motion to approve our purchases this evening with a second to the motion?

Questions or comments about purchases this evening?

All those in favor say, aye.

- Aye.

- Opposed?

- Purchases are approved.

Thank you Mr. Goldberg.

- Thank you.

- We'll now move into committee reports.

Councilwoman Nora, we'll start with you.

- No report.

- All right, Dr. Burs.

- No report.

- All right.

Councilman Henderson?

- No report.

- Councilwoman Hill.

- No report.

- Councilman Smith?

- No report.

- Councilman Hester.

- I wanna thank those who sat in for me and I asked all of you here, all those who are watching and let see your doctor regularly.

Thank you.

- Thank you, sir.

Sound advice.

Madame Vice Chair.

- Equity and community development will meet next Tuesday.

- Thank you very much.

Recognitions of persons wishing to address the council is where we are at this evening.

And is there anyone out there?

Yes.

- Say something.

- Absolutely.

Councilwoman Noel, you have a floor, ma'am.

- Thank you Mr.

Chair.

If I could ask vice Chair Dr Lee to stand please.

- I am so glad you beat me, you beat me to the punch.

- Thank you.

- You beat me to the.

- Yes.

If we, today is her birthday.

- Yeah.

- And if you.

(claps) If you all will join us and saying happy birthday to her, we would really appreciate it, yes.

- Hey, let me turn my mic off.

- Yes, let's go.

♪ Happy birthday to you ♪ ♪ Happy birthday to you.

♪ ♪ Happy birthday dear Chairman ♪ ♪ Happy birthday to you ♪ (claps) Yay.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

- You're welcome.

I am so glad you did that.

All right, now it's time for you all to come and wish Madame Vice chair happy birthday, if you'd like.

- Before you come, Madame Attorney will read our public speaking rules and if you would please line up at the microphone and we'll be ready to start in just a moment.

- My name is Mazerena Brown.

I am a resident of 1570 Will Ho Street.

And I just wanna complain about excessive noise coming off this exile of the main bar.

And I was sending multiple emails and Miss Doley was helping me in this matter since August.

But they used to do like Friday nights and Saturday nights till 3:00 AM and the music in such an amplified noise.

They put like a bass and a heavy metal that it's almost like feel it's in the bedroom.

I mean, I put like everything possible there to no noise consolation, but this is like over exceeding noise in even police.

I called multiple time Chattanooga Police Department and they're trying to help, but now they moving from being two times a week, now they do three times a week, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.

And I'm an engineer, I have to work on Friday morning and this sound goes up to like 3:00 AM, very unhealthy and it's getting effect on my health and health of my neighbors.

So I'm just asking please help me in this matter and please help my neighbors as well.

It's really affecting us and this bar, it's not just a building, it's a small shed with fences around and they have all this music outside almost like in the parking lot and our condos are about hundred feet from this bar.

So this is all and I really, and happy birthday to Miss Doley.

She was really working with me on this and got police depart.

Actually she helped, they had so much trash in the road, now they clean up the trash.

Thank you.

- If you'll hang on one second, I do see madam vice chair's light on.

- Thank you Ms. Brown for coming.

And I know I did try to respond back to you today, but I did speak with CPD about it and if you wanna wait just a few minutes after the meeting, I'll give you that update.

And then also we have Assistant Chief's Glenn Crus back there and so if you could wait with us after the meeting so we can discuss it a little further.

- Okay.

Thank you very much.

- Thank you so much.

- Thank you, ma'am.

- John John.

Good evening, sir.

- Hey, doing good.

John John, District nine.

I'm here to talk about the concept of one more lane.

Chattanooga's future is dependent on growth.

We have outstanding TIFs which require it.

And I want to address the most complicated, one of the most complicated areas of growth, which is transportation.

There's a temptation to create one more lane in order to alleviate issues in our city in regards to transportation and in our neighbors to the south, Atlanta, is one of the worst cities in the world for traffic.

And car lanes that they add to alleviate this traffic are almost like dinner guests that show up hungry when you don't have enough food to provide.

The more you add, the worse the problem gets.

It's a solution with negative returns and the more lane increases demand, the more lanes increase demand until traffic is locked up again.

No city has solved mass transit issues by the car alone.

Yet the pathways for cars are particularly land greedy.

Areas where transportation is most unable, areas where transportation is needed are the ones most unable to spare the land necessary to it.

Nevermind the redlining, blatant segregation is policies of the past.

Is there even a human way to ask someone richer, poor, Black or White to vacate their home to offer up public parks in order to serve a highway?

The one more lane mentality has carved cities, creating greater depths of segregation and rob the poor of the most precious resource, which is social capital.

I know you won't be able to see this great from right now, but come up afterwards and I'll show you it.

Here's an area of Atlanta, the yellow is the first.

In the first images are houses to be torn down to make way for transportation.

The people in those neighborhoods didn't just lose a home, but reliable neighbors, free babysitter, a good Samaritan that often helped them with chores, but it doesn't have to be that way.

Chattanooga requires exponential growth to pay our debts, but the transportation by car is linear at best and incredibly land greedy.

This image of a Texas interchange shows a city of comparable size in Italy that houses 30,000 people.

That's how much real estate it takes for an interchange.

That's how much land it takes in Europe to house 30,000 people.

Things like the Central Avenue extension will not alleviate our traffic problems and the average car takes up 180 square feet or a 100 square fee and 180 square feet when parked.

The more lanes you build, the more demand for parking and the more parking, the more demand for lanes, it's a vicious cycle.

This image of Texas or Houston, Texas in 1970, shows the results of this.

We need to start viewing cyclists as commuters that saved us 172 square feet of parking and reduced the line behind a red light by one car.

We need to create arterial bike pass.

We need to, like we did with the internet, show the world how a small Tennessee city can lead the country in public transportation and bring trains back to Chattanooga.

In short, we need flexible, personal, and effective mass transit options.

Thank you.

- Thank you.

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