Coppinger Presents No-Tax-Increase Budget; $833 Million Spending Is Up $36.3 Million Monday, May 24, 2021
County Mayor Jim Coppinger on Monday presented to the County Commission a no-tax-increase budget that includes $833 million in spending - up $36.3 million.
It includes a four percent raise for county employees costing $4.9 million.
The county mayor is among those getting the four percent bump. That triggers similar raises for the County Commission, the Chattanooga mayor, the Chattanooga City Council and the School Board members.
Sheriff Jim Hammond said $621,000 that the county school system has been supplying for School Resource Officers will be used for School Safety Officers instead.
He said he was advised that could pay for nine new SSOs. There are already 10 SSOs paid for by the schools.
Bid Approved For $30 Million CSLA At Lakeside Project Wednesday, May 5, 2021 - by Joseph Dycus The Hamilton County Commissioners on Wednesday approved TriCon Inc.’s bid for the Chattanooga School for the Liberal Arts (CSLA) at Lakeside project, which will cost around $30 million. Commissioner Tim Boyd noted he has long been a proponent of finding CSLA a new home, and thanked the commissioners for approving the bid.
“This $30 million is going to repurpose Lakeside Elementary to a K-12 magnet school,” Commissioner Boyd said. “I’ve worked for over 10 years to get CSLA a new facility, since it’s one of the worst buildings in the county that we’re teaching kids out of.”
Roy Exum: An Unconscionable Insult Friday, April 30, 2021 - by Roy Exum
Roy Exum
The Chattanooga Chamber of Commerce, just five years removed from being chosen as the best in all of the United States, has just crashed and burned. Chamber president Christy Gillenwater, surely spurred by Board Chair and black activist Valoria Armstrong, shook the Chatttanooga business community to its core Thursday. When it was learned the “woke” movement has generated a Chamber-led “CEO Pledge for Racial Equity,” the reactions went from “stunned and shocked” to “How does ‘this’ fit with ‘that’?”
The overwhelming majority of city and county taxpayers – whose elected leaders appropriate over $400,000 to the Chamber to enhance the business economy – are aghast to learn they have lived for years in a community of systemic racism and I, as a lifelong citizen, will testify under oath that I believe Ms.
Mayor-Elect Kelly Focusing On Economic Development, Early Childhood Education Wednesday, April 14, 2021 - by Joseph Dycus Mayor-elect Tim Kelly says economic development and investing in early childhood education are two points of emphasis for his administration over the next four years. Mr. Kelly, on the day after his election runoff victory, said he has spoken to most of the City Council members and people within the city, and said investing in preschool education is an “easy sale.”
“The science is crystal-clear, right?,” the former auto dealer said in a Wednesday afternoon interview. “By the time a child is six years old, their brain is wired and he or she will be on a path that you can change, but it’s more difficult to change after that.”
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