City Council
Regular MeetingChattanooga, TN · August 26, 2025
Agenda
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 2025
CITY COUNCIL AGENDA
3:30 PM
I. Call to Order by Chairwoman Hill.
II. Pledge of Allegiance/Invocation (Councilman Harvey).
III. Special Presentations.
PUBLIC HEARING - FY26 BUDGET Alternate Proposal
re: Intent to Exceed Certified Tax Rate to $1.69
Alternate Version Sponsored by Councilmen Henderson and Davis
IV. Minute Approval.
V. Discussion of Agenda.
❖ Next Week’s Proposed Agenda Items
❖ Purchasing Questions
❖ Future Considerations (3 Week Look Ahead)
VI. Committee or Department Reports:
❖ Planning and Zoning Committee
RECESS
Order of Business for City Council
VII. Ordinances – Final Reading:
PARKS, PUBLIC WORKS, AND WASTEWATER
Wastewater
a. MR-2025-0083 City of Chattanooga Wastewater c/o Mark Heinzer, P.E.
(Abandonment). An ordinance closing and abandoning multiple sanitary sewer
easements in the 1500 block of Mercer Street and the 1100 block of Luptonville
Crossing, including: (1) a sewer easement beginning at MH #S118N001 thence
northeastwardly3,770feettoMH#S118L001;(2)asewereasementbeginningatMH
#S118E053thencesouthwest1,171feettoMH#S118E306;and(3)portionsofthirty
(30”)inchforcemainandforty-eight(48”)inchgravitysewereasementsasdescribed
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in the attached documentation, Tax Map Nos. 118E-E-006, 118K-E-004, 007 thru
020, 118K-E-027, 028, 038, as shown on the attached maps, subject to certain
conditions. (District 2) (Recommended for approval by Planning Commission
and Wastewater)
b. MR-2025-0038 Joseph Parks c/o March Adams & Associates,Inc.(Abandonment).
Anordinanceclosingandabandoningasanitarysewerandeasementinthe400block
ofPalmettoStreet,beginningtwenty(20)feetNWfromMH#S146A019thence287
feet to MH #S146A020, for atotalof287linearfeet,TaxMapNo.146A-F-008,as
shown on the attached map, subject to certain conditions. (District 8)
(Recommended for approval by Planning Commission and Wastewater)
VIII. Ordinances - First Reading:
FINANCE
a. An ordinance to amend Ordinance No. 14239, also known as “the Fiscal Year
2025-2026 Operations Budget,” for the City of Chattanooga, fixing the rate of
taxationonalltaxablepropertiesintheCity;amendestimatedGeneralFundrevenue;
amendSections5and5(A)soastoappropriatethesamefromGeneralFund;amend
Section 7(A) toreviseprovisionforswornemployees;amendSection7(E)toadjust
authorizedpositions;andtoamendFireandPolicepayplans. (Mayor’sProposalto
Increase the Tax Rate to $1.93)
An ordinance to strikecertainportionsofOrdinanceNo.14239,alsoknownas“the
Fiscal Year 2025-2026 Operations Budget,” for the City of Chattanooga and to
substitutethefollowingprovisionsfixingtherateoftaxationonalltaxableproperties
intheCity;amendingestimatedGeneralFundrevenues;amendSections5and5(A)
so as to appropriate the same from General Fund; amend Section 7(A) to revise
provision for sworn employees; amend Section 7(E) to adjust authorized positions;
and to amend Fire and Police pay plans. (Alternate Version to Increase the Tax
Rate to $1.69) (Sponsored by Councilmen Henderson and Davis)
b. An ordinance to amend the Capital Budget Ordinance No. 14240, known as “the
Fiscal Year 2025-2026 Capital Budget,” appropriating, authorizing, or allocating
fundstotheCapitalImprovementsBudgetfortheFiscalYear2025-2026toincrease
the Capital Budget by $13,350,000.00 from General Fund Operations.
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IX. Resolutions:
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
a. A resolution authorizing the Department of Community Development to apply for,
and if awarded,accepttheOlderAmericanActSeniorCenterServicesGrantbythe
Southeast Tennessee Development District/Southeast Tennessee Area Agency on
Aging and Disability for senior community-based services andactivitiesforagrant
period of July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026, in the amount of $20,000.00.
COUNCIL OFFICE
b. A resolution confirming the appointment of Jonathan Mason to the Health,
Educational, and Housing Facility Board for District 4, with a term beginning on
August 27, 2025, and ending on August 26, 2031. (District 4)
PARKS, PUBLIC WORKS, AND WASTEWATER
Parks & Outdoors
c. A resolution authorizing the Department of Parks & Outdoors to apply for, and if
awarded, accept a BlueCross Healthy Places Grant for the renovation of Pavilion
Park, in the amount of$2million. (AddedwithpermissionofChairwomanHill)
(Revised)
Public Works
d. A resolution authorizing the Administrator for the Department of Public Works to
award Contract No. Y-25-007-201, Carver Community Center Gym Floor
Replacement, to Wilder Contracting, LLC, of Chattanooga, TN, in the amount of
$128,968.00, with a contingency in the amount of $3,207.00, for a total amountof
$132,175.00. (District 8)
e. A resolution authorizing the Administrator for the Department of Public Works to
award Contract No. E-21-022-201, Watkins Building ACM Abatement and Mold
Remediation, to E. LukeGreeneCompany,Inc.,ofNewMarket,TN,intheamount
of $94,542.55, withacontingencyintheamountof$9,450.00,foratotalamountof
$104,042.55. (District 9)
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POLICE
f. A resolution authorizing the Chief of Police to apply for, and if awarded, accept a
grant from the Hamilton County District 3 Homeland Security Council, the U.S.
DepartmentofHomelandSecurity,OfficeforDomesticPreparednessStateHomeland
Security Grant Program 2024 awarded Hamilton County, in the amount of
$182,406.46, which will be administeredtotheChattanoogaPoliceDepartmentand
other municipalities, wherein the Chattanooga Police Department will receive
$33,261.50 to purchase equipment, for a grant period ending January 31, 2027.
X. Purchases.
XI. Committee Reports.
XII. Recognition of Persons Wishing to Address the Council.
XIII. Adjournment.
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