Chattanooga council lays out citywide priorities, forms volunteer working groups

The Chattanooga City Council on a strategic planning session identified five guiding values — mutual respect, professionalism, honesty, curiosity and collaboration — and grouped citywide legislative priorities into working groups whose members volunteered to lead and participate.

The values were listed by the chair during the session as the foundation for how council members want to work together, and the chair asked members for additions before moving into shared priorities. The council grouped priorities into buckets that include infrastructure funding (with a note to assess maintenance liabilities and secure recurring revenue and city water for Raccoon Mountain residents), economic revitalization and neglected community corridors, Land Development Office (LDO) policy improvements to reduce housing costs, homelessness support ecosystem improvements (including…