Councilwoman Deborah Scott blasts Chattanooga Mayor Ron Littlefield

Deborah Scott

City Councilwoman Deborah Scott lashed out Tuesday at Mayor Ron Littlefield for an email he wrote to City Council members, asking them to stop burying department heads under information requests.

“I’m going to keep getting the records and I’m going to keep asking the questions,” Scott said.

The email was sent to council members Tuesday morning, and Scott read the email before the start of Chattanooga City Council committee meetings.

Littlefield said in the email that it is not the job of the council to run the day-to-day operations of the city.

“Some of you are asking questions that cannot be answered without undertaking a college course on how things work,” he wrote.