The City Council is expected to vote tonight in its regularly scheduled business meeting to pump more than $2.3 million of federal stimulus money into depressed neighborhoods.
Beverly Johnson, administrator for the city’s Department of Neighborhood Services and Community Development, said the city brought in about $2.9 million in federal stimulus money. A second round of spending using the leftover $600,000 will be brought up in a matter of weeks, she said.
The money is being used to fund a variety of projects including revitalization of properties in the Bushtown and Orchard Knob neighborhoods, she said.
For complete details, see tomorrow’s Chattanooga Times Free Press.
Cliff has worked for the Times Free Press for five years and covers Chattanooga city government. He previously covered Rhea County, as well as transportation and growth and development in Southeast Tennessee. A native of Maryville, Tenn., Cliff graduated in 2003 from the University of Tennessee with a bachelor’s degree in communications with an emphasis on journalism. Before coming to Chattanooga, he was a crime reporter with Hernando Today, a supplement of The Tampa (Fla.) ...
They'd do best to get rid of neighborhood services altogether, use the money they're spending out in salaries and instead offer the money directly to the community in the form of grants to help the people revitalize their property. Punishing people with fines and hauling them into court only take much needed income away from the community rather than helping to revitalize those communities and allowing them to become self sustaining.
Why not put that money into the job market and local economy? If people let their neighborhoods go in the tank, that's on them. I'm tired of my tax dollars getting wasted on "feel good" garbage like this.
The people in these neighborhoods are responsible for they way they look. It takes very little effort to clean your yard, wash your house and be tidy. Lazy does as lazy is, and will keep doing the same.
Or login with:
New Account