Executive Meeting - April

Executive Committee Special Called Meeting
Downtown Chattanooga Alliance
Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Time: 2:00-2:57
Location: By Zoom

1. Call to Order

Steve Hunt, Chairman of the DCA, called the meeting to order. Executive Committee members attending were Kelly Fitzgerald, Charles Perry and Gordon Stalans.

Also present was Steve Brookes, Executive Director of the DCA.

1. OLD BUSINESS

(a) The Executive Committee minutes of 4/14/2021 were approved with one abstention.2. New Business

(a) During a discussion of delinquent assessment issues, the following points were made: i. For 2019, unpaid assessments are approximately $50,000; for 2020, unpaid assessments are approximately $154,607. ii. The next step in the collection process should be to send letters to property owners who have not paid their 2019 assessment.

2. new business

(a) After a discussion of a City of Chattanooga Cash for Trash pilot program on 11th Street, a motion that the DCA work with the city during the pilot program with the stipulation that the money distributed to participants would be spent in the district and the stipulation that the DCA would not be involved if the city went forward with its own Cash for Trash program was approved unanimously.

(b) During a discussion of as to how the DCA should respond to a request from the City of Chattanooga for help in watering planters in Patten Square, the following points were made:

(i) The DCA is still in the early stage of its work in the district.

(ii) The DCA should proceed cautiously in this area, and every proposal should be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

(iii) Any DCA work for the city should be appropriately compensated.

(iv) The DCA had no role in the design of Patten Square or its implementation.

(v) The fiduciary responsibility of the DCA is first and foremost to the property owners in the district, who fund our work.

The meeting adjourned at 2:57.