Jacqueline Dowell stands behind the sign marking the Washington Hills Neighborhood on Friday afternoon in Chattanooga. Dowell is the president of the Washington Hills Neighborhood Association and an early participant in the Neighborhood Leadership Institute.TO PARTICIPATENeighborhood Leadership Institute applications are located at the Department of Neighborhood Services and Community Development in City Hall at 101 E. 11th St.Applications are also online at www.chattanooga.gov. For more information, call 425-3700.
Jacqueline Dowell had been a part of the Washington Hills Neighborhood Association for more than three decades, but she had trouble getting some city services until she participated in the Neighborhood Leadership Institute.
“We weren’t recognized until we went through that class,” she said. “Those classes taught us how to get things done.”
She is one of 92 graduates who have been through the training since it started in 2007.
“We had people calling about sewer lines calling the wrong departments; it was the same with garbage service,” said Dowell.