The Chattanooga City Council met on March 24, 2026, at 3:30 PM for a full agenda including a special presentation on a new parking compliance ordinance, multiple resolutions and first-reading items, an economic development committee update from the Chattanooga Tourism Company, and public comments. The council voted on several items, including the joint acquisition of the Boy Scout property and a rezoning with conditions for a 67-unit townhome development.
Good afternoon. To get us started, I'd like to invite Councilman Harvey to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance and Invocation. And the Republic for which it stands one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you, Madam Chair. Want to do something a little bit differently today. Um last week. We had his service yesterday. Appreciate all the the text and calls. Appreciate my brother from another mother, Ron Elliott, for coming to the funeral yesterday. So that really meant a lot. But he was a man who uh loved his city. He uh was a lifelong resident of Signal Mountain, uh, but made his living as a blue-collar man in the city of Chattanooga. He drove a truck for Coca-Cola, worked at the old signal knitting mill and uh made most of his career at DuPont over in District 3. Um so I wanted to honor him today by having a moment of silence. Um if you don't if you don't mind join me in honoring my grandfather, Charles Albert Harvey. Thank you. Thank you. Um before we get started today, I see some faces in the in the crowd that are not our every Tuesday faces. So I want to share with you a little bit about how our meetings progress so that you um can make choices about when you want to be here and and um understand how things work. So investment. There he goes again. Councilman Henderson used to say when he was chair, will you please be sure to turn off your devices, silence your devices? We all want to do that. Uh any anybody who's isn't silent might be a great time to do that. Um but what I wanted to share with you all is that our council meets every Tuesday at 3 30 to begin our our official work of the day. Now, very often on Tuesdays, we also have other meetings throughout the morning and afternoon. Um today our council had an education session for new members on our pension plan, for example, for fire and police. Um so this council puts in quite a lot of of work throughout the day. Um today what we're gonna do is we will go through our agenda for this afternoon, and then we will take a look at our purchases. We'll take a look at our agenda for next week, and then items that are going to be on future what we call future considerations that are going to be on our agenda in the next three and four weeks. This is the council that does its homework that looks um far out in advance so that by the time we get to the point where we're gonna vote, we are well educated on the issues at hand. Um we will go through all of that. We do have a committee meeting today. All of our committees are committee of the whole. We'll have an economic development committee meeting with a presentation from the Chattanooga Tourism Company. Um then we will take a recess. Our recesses are usually about 45 minutes because surprise, surprise, we have work we have to do in in between often uh whether it be with our constituents or with our attorney. Um when we return, we will vote on all of the items on today's agenda, and then we will be very happy to open the floor for public comment. Um we'll have the opportunity to speak for up to three minutes if you are interested, and we will cover the rules when the time comes. So that said, thank you for being here, and we will get down to it. Council, please take a look at our ordinances on final reading. Oh, thank you, madam vice chair. Rewind, we're gonna do a quick minute approval. And actually, we have a special presentation as well. Sorry, I missed that. So let's do our uh minute approval. Can I get it? Can I get a motion on the minutes from last week? Thank you. The minutes will stand without objection.