A move to restructure the Chattanooga City Council’s committees resulted in yelling across the dais and an early recess Tuesday night.
Council member Ron Elliott of Missionary Ridge has spearheaded an effort to condense committees from nine to six and reform the way they operate. A resolution to do so landed on Tuesday night’s agenda. The council eventually moved to defer the restructuring effort to allow time for some of the legal language to be worked out.
A few council members expressed concerns about the new structure leaving at least one council member out of a leadership position and shifting workload by combining some committees.
The discussion became fraught as several council members began to speak over each other and then subsequently tell one another they were out of order for doing so, resulting in council member and Chair Jeff Davis of Hixson to pause the meeting and call a recess.