Council Agenda Set

The East Ridge City Council will meet Thursday, March 31 at City Hall with a light agenda.

Among the items the board will consider is a discussion of the City Manager applications. The council had agreed to have a member of the Municipal Technical Advisory Service review the 70 applications received and give a ranking, records show.

The job has been vacant since late June when Andrew Hyatt resigned to take a government position in Florida.

The council is expected to appoint city Fire Marshall Kenny Custer as the city’s new commissioner for the Hamilton County Water and Wastewater Treatment Authority. Custer is replacing Donald Seagle, who had served a five-year term on the WWTA.

The council will consider an ordinance that will abolish the city’s personnel board. The board was established more than five years ago allowing a panel of citizens to review personnel actions taken by city administrators. The board has never met, officials said.

Officials from the Walgreens store at 3508 Ringgold Road will appear before the council asking it to grant a variance for beer sales at the store. Store officials had appeared before the city’s Beer Board earlier in the month to request a beer license. The Beer Board denied the license as the store is within a certain distance from a church, in violation of city code.

The agenda session for the City Council meeting is at 6 p.m., with the full meeting beginning at 6:30 p.m.

Click here for the entire agenda.

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.