ERHRA Special Called Meeting on Friday

The East Ridge Housing and Redevelopment Authority will have a special called meeting on Friday, April 20 at 4 p.m. at City Hall.

The purpose of the called meeting is to prepare for the “public input” meeting on May 3, officials said. No formal actions will be taken during the special called meeting on Friday, officials said.

The East Ridge Housing and Redevelopment Authority (ERHRA) sent out 2,500 letters early last week to residents, homeowners and business owners whose property is within a redevelopment map. These properties are subject to action by the ERHRA.

In the letter it was announced that the ERHRA will have an “open house community meeting” on Thursday, May 3 at 5:30 p.m. in the Community Center. This meeting is being held to give the public an opportunity to review the formal plan that ERHRA has made to address blight in the city. The letter says that the meeting will “allow for an exchange between concerned/interested persons and public officials and professionals involved with the Redevelopment Plan.

About Dick Cook

Dick Cook has lived in East Ridge since the Kennedy Administration when his parents bought a house on Marietta Street. Dick graduated from ERHS in 1976 before going on to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he studied Political Science. Dick worked for the Chattanooga Free-Press and the Chattanooga Times Free Press for 22 years. Free-Press Sports Editor Roy Exum plucked him out of production in 1989 and gave him a job as a sports reporter. Dick covered everything from prep sports to the whitewater events on the Ocoee River for the 1996 Olympics. When Chattanooga's two paper's merged, he became the Crime Reporter covering both the Chattanooga Police and Fire Departments. He was among reporters who were honored by the Associated Press for the TFP's coverage of the 2002 fog-shrouded crash on I-75 in Catoosa County, Dick and his wife, Cathy, live on Marlboro Avenue where they are seen frequently chasing around their three grandsons.