Council to Have Special Called Meeting on Friday

The East Ridge City Council will have a special called meeting on Friday, November 30 at 8;30 a.m.

According to a posting on the city’s Website, the council will discuss/act on a resolution for appointments to the city’s personnel board and to amend a resolution dealing with a use agreement with Chick-fil-A restaurant in Jordan Crossing.

In March 2018, the city council approved by resolution an agreement between the city and Exit 1 LLC granting almost a dozen additional parking spaces for Chick-fil-A restaurant inside Jordan Crossing.

The city’s personnel board was established in July 2010, according to a review of the East Ridge City Code. The board is comprised of five members which are appointed by city council on an annual basis.

The personnel board will hear all personnel grievances. According to city code, it “will meet at such times as it is required.” The board is an advisory board and does not have the power to overturn the termination of an employee by the city manager.

According to Frances Pope, who was appointed to the board in 2014, it has never met.

The meeting will be held at City Hall on Tombras Avenue and the public is invited to attend.

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.