This regular meeting of the Chattanooga City Council began at approximately 7:22 p.m. UTC and combined an agenda‑session discussion of future agenda items with a voting session on ordinances, resolutions, purchases, and other business. The council also heard public comments at the end of the meeting.
Good afternoon, everybody. I'll call to order our Tuesday, August twenty-fifth meeting of the Chattanooga City Council. If you would please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. Um, so we don't have any unnecessary distractions to our meeting. So you'll know what to expect. The first half of our meeting is what's called our agenda session, and so council will go through this week's docket, next week stock it. Um, or agenda. Um sorry, I'm a lawyer. I'm used to saying dock it. So our agendas for this week and next week, um, and also for three weeks or more out, and we'll discuss as needed any questions or concerns that council members have about those items so that we'll be prepared to vote on them when the time comes. Um, and council will have an opportunity to ask questions or raise any concerns about those. And so we'll also do that during our agenda session. Um, and once we've done that, we'll take a recess as we normally do. Um, and normally during that recess, we'll have an attorney client meeting with our city attorney, and I understand we need a brief one today. Um, and so when the time comes for that, I'll announce the time that we'll be reconvening after our recess, and then when we come back, um that's the point in time where we'll be voting on all the items on our agenda for this week. And at the end of all that, um, there will be a time as there always is for members of the public to address council um on any topic that they wish, and the podium down front will be available for that at that time, and our attorney um when the time comes for that, we'll read some rules for that public comment period. So with that, um council, could I get a motion on our minutes from our previous meeting, please? I'll move. Okay, all right. We do have a motion properly seconded on our minutes from last week, and those minutes will stand as published. Council, look with me if you will at this week's agenda. Starting with our ordinances on final reading and first reading. And if you have any questions about those ordinances, please hit your lights. Councilman Henderson, you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Um 9C, the resolution to well, actually, that's not the resolutions. I'm I'm a little ahead of you. For some reason, I thought that was under um ordinances, but I'll I'll wait unless you will. Yeah, I'll come back to you. Okay. Any questions on ordinances, council? Okay, you can hit your light again, councilman. Um thank you. Um I've had quite a bit of um back and forth conversation with uh Karen about about the plan Chattanooga, and um just to be real honest, I ran out of time trying to get around to all of my neighborhoods, making sure that we were good with this. Um it would be my desire to maybe defer this for 30 days just so that I can make sure that all of my neighborhood associations are aware of what we're doing and that they're fully aware of this. Like I said, I just I just ran out of time trying to get around to all of them. Um so I don't know how the rest of the council feels, but everybody else may be ready to move forward. I don't know, but uh it would be my desire to maybe defer this for 30 days. And Karen, I don't want to I don't do anything that to the detriment of this, but you know, if we can maybe pause for 30 30 days, there is um no rush on our part. We would want um people to understand that this is um coming up and that there is intention to move forward, but there is no deadline. We have a um requirement under state law to um have the public hearing and to advertise that's been done, and so we would just want to make sure that we've um if we need to advertise again, we get that done and know the date, but there is no rush on our part. Okay, thank you. So Karen, if I could just ask, I guess a clarifying question there, would we have to have another public hearing? I don't believe we would. I think that just one is required, and I believe the notification is for the first time it becomes before you on the agenda and that it just takes it's happening, and then some we could follow along the um the natural process, but we'll double check that. But if it's 30 days, we would just go ahead and check it and advertise it if we needed to. Okay, but it is a resolution and would only require one reading. So yes, yes, sir. Yes, okay.