Council to Host Strategic Planning Session

The East Ridge City Council will host a strategic planning session this week.

The meeting will take place on Tuesday, November 5 at 3 p.m. at the Community Center on Tombras Avenue. Officials said the meeting is scheduled for four hours.

City officials said the council will hear from officials from the University of Tennessee’s Municipal Technical Advisory Service (MTAS). Over the last few months, MTAS staff has been conducting an assessment of various department’s within city government.

East Ridge officials said the strategic planning session will focus on “visioning” and a mission statement for the city.

The meeting is open to the public.

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.