The Chattanooga City Council convened on Tuesday, September 15, 2026, beginning at an unspecified afternoon time for an agenda session and later reconvening for a voting session. The meeting included a presentation from Chief of Police John Chambers on the Motorola License Plate Reader (LPR) technology, followed by council discussion, a closed attorney-client session, public comment, and a series of votes on ordinances, resolutions, and purchases. The meeting was adjourned after public comments.
Good afternoon, everyone. I'll call to order the Tuesday, September fifteenth meeting in Chattanooga City Council. If you'll please stand and join me in a Pledge of Allegiance. Before I do that, though, just a reminder, if you have a cell phone, please silence it so that we don't put on vibrate or whatever you need to do. Our first session is what's called our agenda session, where council up here will go through the items that are before us to vote on tonight. So items that are coming before us next week. Council will also discuss those as needed. We like to be well prepared um before we vote. So we'll go through that process for those items as well. We'll also um look at the purchasing items that are before us for approval tonight to see if council has any questions or concerns about those. Um from there, um we sometimes we'll have committee or department reports, um council committee um reports or reports from different administrative departments and tonight. Um we do have Chief Chambers here with us from CPD for a presentation about the Motorola LPR cameras that the city uses, and so um we will hear from him at that time. Uh that will take us up to our recess, and normally at our recess, we'll have a meeting with our city attorney. Um, and I am advised we do need one of those this evening. And so we will recess then and uh meet with our city attorney in an attorney client meeting. Um and before we do that, I'll announce the time that we'll be coming back. And then when we come back from our recess is when we vote on all the items on our agenda this evening. And at the end of all of that, after the voting, um, in the second half of the meeting, there will be a time for public comment for members of the public who are here and would like to wish or would like to address uh the council on any topic. And so we're happy to welcome you at the podium down front at that time if you're here for that purpose at the end of the meeting. All right. Um, so with that out of the way, council, could I get a motion on the minutes from our previous meeting, please? Sorry. Do have a motion properly seconded, and the minutes from last week's meeting will stand as published. Council, if you would look with me at the items on our agenda for this evening. We'll start. We don't have any ordinances on final reading, uh, but we do have several on first reading, including some planning items. Uh councilman Henderson, you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just uh for your knowledge with council's knowledge, uh, I will be asking or making a motion for withdrawal on uh planning item C and E this afternoon. And I don't see councilman Clark here, but he has an item um under G that I have spoken with him, and he's indicated to me that he is good with this particular item on lifting conditions. Uh so unless I'm notified otherwise, I'll will be making a motion to approve of that. Okay, thank you, councilman. Councilwoman Hill, you're recognized. Thank you very much. Item A under the office of the city attorney. Um it's a very simple resolution uh related to the beer board. So um I'd like to understand a little better. It just says that expiration of beer permits should be in accordance with TCA, etc. etc. Yes, ma'am. Well how how is this changing how we do it now? Are we not currently in accordance? Well, uh the current requirements of section 548 in the city code uh have an annual renewal requirement here. And the state law says at this point in time, unless you change ownership, you have a person to die, you move to a different location. There's about four or five different uh provisions in state law that require a new permit to be issued, but that permit lasts. Your payment continues here for your uh doing business, your sales tax requirements continue on the sales of alcohol at that location, but there's no requirement to have an annual renewal of a beer permit. Okay, thank you. So that's in compliance. I appreciate it.