The Chattanooga City Council met on September 23, 2025, to conduct regular business including ordinances on final and first reading, resolutions for funding and contracts, and purchases. Key actions included passing budget amendments to comply with state law, approving eviction prevention funding, and approving infrastructure change orders for the Walnut Street Bridge. Several items were withdrawn or deferred.
City Council of Chattanooga, Tennessee is in order for Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025. Like to invite Councilwoman Dotley to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance and invocation. And to republic one nation on the individual with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Council, can I get a motion on the minutes, please? Thank you. We're gonna take a look at our agenda for this afternoon. We will have two budget-related votes with our ordinances on final reading. And uh we will do a roll call vote for those. Uh which was postponed for a couple of weeks. Councilman Harvey, are you gonna be good to go on that one tonight? I have not been able to uh connect with the developer. Is the developer here by chance? There he is. Get with me afterwards. Okay, so we all talk between the resets. Okay, all right. Looking at resolutions, council. We have some resolutions under uh early learning, economic development information technology. Hit your light if you have any questions about those. Councilman Elliott. Thank you, Madam Chair. Uh I have questions about the resolution for the H E B board. Uh somebody from how item is that what letter is that? Uh the C. Okay. Yep. Uh Deputy uh Chief of Staff Uh Bear and Left will try to help me with this one, so I do appreciate you, sir. Um Megan, can you help me understand how we is running the program for rental insurance and what does that look like? Yeah, so this is funding that was included in the FY2526 budget was allocated to the Affordable Housing Trust Fund for the eviction prevention initiative, and that's money that's basically going to cover kind of the ongoing EPI program that we have. Um legal aid of East Tennessee. They're doing an access to council program. Is that the same uh pot of money uh the administration set aside for additional rental insurance? No, that's different. So this is the one that was from the kind of original budget that was passed earlier this year. Where are those funds gonna go? And how's that gonna be? We're working through that right now. Okay, thank you. That's fine. Okay. All right. Council do you have any other questions related to resolutions? I believe we have um some feedback from the administration on item H for wastewater. Mark, would you like to share with us? This is the resolution related to water use reuse implementation project. Yes, we'd like to withdraw that uh at this time. We're gonna do some value engineering on that project. It'll probably take a little bit of time because we have to coordinate with uh the state on the scope of that work, and once we get that finalized, we'll hopefully bring that back to to you. Okay, so we'll be looking for a motion, council to uh remove that from the agenda.