The state-administered weatherization stimulus program is being taken away from the Chattanooga Department of Human Services because the city office failed to do the job.
“Their December benchmark was (to complete weatherization on) 118 homes, but they had completed 23,” said Lisa Elam, director of Adult and Family Services Contracts for the Tennessee Department of Human Services.
PDF: Current weatherization agency stats
A goal for March 31 was 237, she said, but the office had completed only 83 homes by that deadline.
“That was not even what they should have done by the end of December,” she said. “We think there was lack of urgency and a lack of commitment to the way we operated the program.”