Special Called Meeting on Friday

The East Ridge City Council will hold a special called meeting on Friday, Feb. 3, at 10 a.m. to consider the following resolution:

RESOLUTION NO. 2628

A resolution of the City Council of the City of East Ridge, Tennessee, requesting the Hamilton County delegation of the legislature of the State of Tennessee to enact such public act which would include the City of East Ridge within the population parameters of the Public Act of 2006 Chapter 949, T.C.A. 13-21-301 _ 314.

According to city officials, the resolution is asking the Hamilton County delegation to spearhead an effort to amend state law which would allow East Ridge to move forward with a residential rental inspection program. Current state law does not provide for cities with populations less then 27,000 residents to enact such programs. The current population of East Ridge is about 21,000.

The meeting will be at East Ridge City Hall, 1517 Tombras Avenue. The public is invited.

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.

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