Boards & Commissions

No results

• Air Pollution Control Board
• Animal Control Board
• Audit Committee
• Beer Board
• Board of Zoning Appeals
• Carter Street Corporation
• Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority
• Chattanooga Downtown Redevelopment Corporation Board
• Chattanooga Housing Authority
• Chattanooga Land Bank Authority
• Chattanooga Public Art Commission
• Community Advisory Committee: Region 10 - Washington Hills Region
• Community Advisory Committee: Region 1 - Lookout Valley Region
• Community Advisory Committee: Region 2 - Shallowford Region
• Community Advisory Committee: Region 3 - North Chattanooga Region
• Community Advisory Committee: Region 4 - West Region
• Community Advisory Committee: Region 5 - South Region
• Community Advisory Committee: Region 6 - Bushtown-Glenwood Region
• Community Advisory Committee: Region 7 - Dodson Region
• Community Advisory Committee: Region 8 - Hixson Region
• Community Advisory Committee: Region 9 - Standifer Gap Region
• Construction Board of Adjustment and Appeals
• Electrical Examiners
• Electric Power Board
• Fire & Police Pension Board
• Form-Based Code Committee
• Gas Examiners
• General Pension Board of Trustees
• Hamilton County Board of Equalization
• Head Start Governing Board
• Health, Educational and Housing Facility Board
• Historic Zoning Commission
• Housing and Community Investment Advisory Board
• Industrial Development Board
• Library Board of Directors
• Mayor's Council on Disability
• Mayor's Council on Livability and Aging
• Mechanical Examiners
• Metropolitan Airport Authority
• Office of Family Empowerment Board
• Parks & Outdoors Committee
• Passenger Vehicle for Hire and Wrecker Board
• Plumbing Examiners
• Regional Planning Commission
• Sports Authority Board
• Stormwater Regulations Board
• (The) Sports Authority of the County of Hamilton and the City of Chattanooga, Tennessee
• Tree Commission
• Wastewater Regulations and Appeals Board

• Air Pollution Control Board

  Prepare and develop a comprehensive plan or plans for the prevention, abatement and control of air pollution in this city and report upon request of the mayor or chairman of the council or chairman of the board to the mayor and city council of the city on progress being made toward the prevention, abatement and control of air pollution.

• Animal Control Board

  The Animal Control Board shall be responsible for studying the types of animal-related permits that the City should require and recommending to the City Council standards for obtaining and maintaining such permits. Toward that end, the board shall develop and recommend proposed ordinance changes to the City Council.
  The Animal Control Board shall have the authority to grant, suspend or revoke animal-related permits following a hearing, pursuant to ordinances adopted by the City Council.

• Audit Committee

  The Audit Committee is responsible for oversight of the City's annual External Audit, the Office of Internal Audit and the City's Fraud, Waste and Abuse Prevention Program. Audit Committee members must be residents of the City of Chattanooga and may not have any employment or contract interests with the City during their term nor for one year following their term. The Audit Committee is staffed by the Office of Internal Audit.

• Beer Board

  The Beer & Wrecker Board has the power to issue permits and revoke or suspend licenses. The next Beer board meeting, that does not include Wrecker, will be January 2, 2025 and January 16, 2025 @ 9:00 a.m. at The City Council Building located at 1001 Lindsay St.

• Board of Zoning Appeals

  The Board of Zoning Appeals for variances and special permits has the power to make special exceptions to the zoning regulations in the following areas: Appeals from property owners on decisions or action by an administrative official in the enforcement of the Zoning Ordinance (setbacks, landscape, parking and building height), Interpretation of Zoning Maps; Review Conditional and other Special Permits; Hear appeals from applicants aggrieved in any decision of the Downtown Residential/Mixed Use District Review.

• Carter Street Corporation

  The purpose of the Carter Street Corporation Board of Directors is to oversee the management of the Chattanooga/Hamilton County Convention Center and adjoining garage.

• Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority

  CARTA’s publicly-appointed Board works with the CARTA staff to provide an affordable and safe public transit system, including fixed-route service, the free downtown and North Shore shuttle system, on-demand paratransit services for the disadvantaged, and the historic Lookout Mountain Incline Railway, for the citizens, visitors and businesses of our community. CARTA also manages on-street public parking in downtown and oversees off-street parking in several major downtown garages and surface parking lots.

• Chattanooga Downtown Redevelopment Corporation Board

  The purpose of this corporation is to operate exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, and to carry out the business of the City of Chattanooga as a public authority created by the City of Chattanooga within the meaning of the Convention Center and Tourism Development Financing Act of 1998 as set forth in Title 7 of the Tennessee Code Annotated (the “Act”); to carry out the functions of a public authority in connection with the master development plan as approved by the State Building Commission and/or the Department of Finance and Administration as provided in the Act; and to perform such other functions and carry out such other purposes as may be incident to the foregoing located in the corporation’s Charter.

• Chattanooga Housing Authority

  The Chattanooga Housing Authority (CHA), chartered in 1938 pursuant to the Tennessee Housing Authorities Law, is a public non-profit corporation which carries out public housing and urban development programs as its primary activities. CHA is governed by a seven-member Board of Commissioners appointed by the Mayor of Chattanooga to staggered five-year terms. The Executive Director serves as Secretary to the Board and has responsibility for the administration of the agency, pursuant to Board policy.

• Chattanooga Land Bank Authority

• Chattanooga Public Art Commission

  The Chattanooga Public Art Commission (CPAC) supports the Public Art division staff and oversees the City’s public art review process for any proposed artwork or architectural feature in the public right-of-way. Including: all permanent and temporary commissions, gifts, loans or exhibitions.

  Terms: Except for practicing visual art members whose term shall be limited to one year with the option to renew for up to 6 years; members shall serve a three-year term and can be reappointed for one (1) consecutive three-year term with each member serving no more than six (6) consecutive years.

  The Commission shall be comprised of the following:
  -At least two (2) practicing visual artists;
  -At least two (2) design professionals such as architects, landscape architects, or urban planners;
  -At least one (1) representative from a local arts and/or culture organization; and
  -Individuals with either a specific professional expertise or significant advocacy or leadership experience in public art, the arts or urban design.

  All Commission Members should have considerable knowledge and experience in public art, the visual arts, architecture and/or urban design and must live or work in Chattanooga.

  Members of the CPAC are ineligible for public art commissions or projects during their tenure and for one year following their term of service. Family and household members also are ineligible for public art commissions or projects over which the CPAC has approval authority or administrative responsibility.

  Members of the project management, project architect, or consulting firms and employees of the City of Chattanooga are ineligible to receive public art funds for design services or public art commissions.

• Community Advisory Committee: Region 10 - Washington Hills Region

  Community advisory committees are intended to help ensure community centers best serve the surrounding neighborhoods. Advisory committee members are responsible for working alongside neighborhoods to advise the community centers’ staff on programming and community engagement.

  This council works with the Washington Hills Community Centers.

• Community Advisory Committee: Region 1 - Lookout Valley Region

  Community advisory committees are intended to help ensure community centers best serve the surrounding neighborhoods. Advisory committee members are responsible for working alongside neighborhoods to advise the community centers’ staff on programming and community engagement.

  This council works with John A. Patten Community Center.

• Community Advisory Committee: Region 2 - Shallowford Region

  Community advisory committees are intended to help ensure community centers best serve the surrounding neighborhoods. Advisory committee members are responsible for working alongside neighborhoods to advise the community centers’ staff on programming and community engagement.

  This council works with the Brainerd, Eastdale, and Cromwell Community Centers.

• Community Advisory Committee: Region 3 - North Chattanooga Region

  Community advisory committees are intended to help ensure community centers best serve the surrounding neighborhoods. Advisory committee members are responsible for working alongside neighborhoods to advise the community centers’ staff on programming and community engagement.

  This council works with the North Chattanooga and Frances B. Wyatt Centers.

• Community Advisory Committee: Region 4 - West Region

  Community advisory committees are intended to help ensure community centers best serve the surrounding neighborhoods. Advisory committee members are responsible for working alongside neighborhoods to advise the community centers’ staff on programming and community engagement.

  This council works with the Westside Community Center.

• Community Advisory Committee: Region 5 - South Region

  Community advisory committees are intended to help ensure community centers best serve the surrounding neighborhoods. Advisory committee members are responsible for working alongside neighborhoods to advise the community centers’ staff on programming and community engagement.

  This council works with the South Chattanooga and East Lake Community Centers.

• Community Advisory Committee: Region 6 - Bushtown-Glenwood Region

  Community advisory committees are intended to help ensure community centers best serve the surrounding neighborhoods. Advisory committee members are responsible for working alongside neighborhoods to advise the community centers’ staff on programming and community engagement.

  This council works with the Carver and Glenwood Community Centers.

• Community Advisory Committee: Region 7 - Dodson Region

  Community advisory committees are intended to help ensure community centers best serve the surrounding neighborhoods. Advisory committee members are responsible for working alongside neighborhoods to advise the community centers’ staff on programming and community engagement.

  This council works with the Avondale and East Chattanooga Community Centers.

• Community Advisory Committee: Region 8 - Hixson Region

  Community advisory committees are intended to help ensure community centers best serve the surrounding neighborhoods. Advisory committee members are responsible for working alongside neighborhoods to advise the community centers’ staff on programming and community engagement.

  This council works with the Hixson Community Center.

• Community Advisory Committee: Region 9 - Standifer Gap Region

  Community advisory committees are intended to help ensure community centers best serve the surrounding neighborhoods. Advisory committee members are responsible for working alongside neighborhoods to advise the community centers’ staff on programming and community engagement.

  This council works with the Shepard and Tyner Community Centers.

• Construction Board of Adjustment and Appeals

  The Board of Construction Appeals for Mechanical Codes has the power to approve or deny variances to the Construction and Mechanical Codes such as (stairs, fire rated walls, means of egress and ingress, potential plumbing, HVAC and electrical Code violations).

• Electrical Examiners

  Anyone wishing to engage in the electrical business in the city must be licensed by the City of Chattanooga. This includes installations of electrical wiring as well as any associated repairs or alterations. The City Council created a board of electrical examiners to oversee the examination and/or licensing of contractor and journeyman electricians.

• Electric Power Board

  EPB is headed by a Board of Directors who ensure we carry out our mission, vision and values while adhering to sound business principles. The five-member board is appointed by the City of Chattanooga.

• Fire & Police Pension Board

  The Fire and Police Pension Fund was established in 1949 as a Trust to provide retirement and disability benefits to sworn Chattanooga Firefighters and Police Officers. Each Director on the Board serves as a fiduciary to the Fund. The Fund provides financial security for more than 1600 active and retired public safety officers and beneficiaries.

• Form-Based Code Committee

  The Form-Based Code Committee is responsible for reviewing major modification requests that do not qualify for staff approval and to review appeals of staff decisions/ interpretations.

  The standards established in this Downtown Code are intended to achieve the following principles:

  Maintain a safe, walkable, and attractive urban environment along the street;
  Maximize opportunities for redevelopment and investment in the Downtown Core;
  Provide a diversity of housing options;
  Promote development that will support transit and commercial services the community desires;
  Protect established single-family residential areas from incompatible development;
  Protect the integrity of established Historic Districts and significant historic/civic landmarks;
  Balance development opportunity and conservation along the riverfront by promoting development scale/form that maintains public accessibility to the river and considers public/private benefits of scenic views along the river;
  Consider impacts of topography, both in terms of the reasonableness of the standard when applied to a particular site and the potential impacts on adjoining properties;
  Increase the tree canopy; and
  Support adopted plan policies and recommendations.
  However, specific site features (topographic changes, lot size or irregular dimension, physical barriers or easements) may create conditions that make compliance with a specific standard impractical or undesirable. It is also recognized that alternative design solutions may achieve the principles stated above but may not comply with a specific standard.

  It is the responsibility of the applicant to meet the burden of clearly demonstrating the reason for the requested code exception and to provide sufficient documentation to illustrate how the modification is related to a site constraint and/or how the modification would equal or exceed the existing standard in terms of achieving the principles stated above.

  For more information about the Major Modification process and procedures, see the Form-Based Code Document Sec. 38-695. Code Administration (4) Code Modifications.

  The Form-Based Code Committee members must have a professional background/ or personal experience working, building, designing, or living in urban places. The committee will be composed of nine (9) rotating members set forth as follows: Commission Membership:

  3 Architect/Urban Designer/Landscape Architect.
  3 Developer/Realtor/Banker/Civil Engineer/ Contractor.
  3 Property Owner/Resident/Business Owner.
  Each City Council representative whose district is located in the Form-Based Code Area must submit up to three (3) candidates that meet the qualifications noted above for a vacant position on the Form-Based Code Committee. The Mayor will select the candidate or request additional names from the affected Council Member before submitting the selection to City Council for final approval.

  For more information about the Form-Based Code Committee Membership Terms and procedures, please see City Code Sec. 38-695. Code Administration (5) Form-Based Code Committee.

• Gas Examiners

  The board created by this division shall hold meetings semi-annually in March and September, for the examination of applicants to determine their knowledge of the rules and regulations for the installation of gas piping devices, appliances and equipment as set forth in the statutes of the state, this code and other ordinances of the city and the International Gas code; to issue licenses and certificates therefore; to determine the general qualifications and fitness of each applicant for executing the class of work covered by the license applied for and for the transaction of other business.

• General Pension Board of Trustees

  General Pension Plan Board of Trustees
  The Board of Trustees is charged with the management of the General Pension fund and the Other Post-Employment Benefits fund for the investment and reinvestment of the principal and income to ensure the adequacy of the funds to provide benefits to the participants, including the periodic actuarial valuation of plan liabilities for each fund. The Board has authority to establish written rules, regulations and procedures to administer the plans for the benefit of participants and beneficiaries or as required by law or statute. The Board is informed of all applications for benefits and all other transactions that affect the General Pension Plan funds. The Board will authorize the preparation and distribution of information concerning the plans to the participants at the expense of the fund and in the most appropriate manner.

• Hamilton County Board of Equalization

  The board hears appeals from citizens who do not agree with their property assessments.

• Head Start Governing Board

  The Head Start Governing Board oversees Chattanooga's Head Start program and is responsible for all federal compliance related to the program.

• Health, Educational and Housing Facility Board

  The purpose of this corporation is to provide a measure of assistance and an alternative method to enable hospital institutions and institutions for higher education in the State of Tennessee to provide the facilities which are needed to accomplish the purposes of Chapter 19 of Title 48-101-301 et seq., Tennessee Code Annotated, all to the public benefit and good; and in order to provide access to adequate medical care and hospital facilities, and to provide that the youth be given the fullest opportunity to learn and to develop their intellectual and mental capacities; to acquire, own, lease and dispose of properties to the end that such hospital institutions and institutions for higher education may be able to promote the health and higher education of the people of Tennessee; and without limited the generality of the foregoing, to have such purposes as intended for corporations organized under Chapter 19 of Title 48-101-301 et seq., Tennessee Code Annotated.

• Historic Zoning Commission

  The Chattanooga Historic Zoning Commission's (CHZC) purpose is to review proposed structure and site changes and new construction in the four historic districts in Chattanooga: St. Elmo, Fort Wood, Battery Place and Ferger Place. The CHZC review all proposals and determines that the work is within the adopted Guidelines of each district. They work to ensure the integrity of each district.

  This nine member Commission is comprised of a representative of a local historical organization, a member of a local Planning Commission, an architect, four (4) residents of the Local Historic Districts and three (3) members of the general public.

• Housing and Community Investment Advisory Board

  The Housing and Community Investment Advisory Board meets when there is a need to review and approve funding and reports to HUD, to review applications from local organizations, and make funding recommendations.

• Industrial Development Board

  The general nature of the business to be transacted by this corporation and the general purpose for which it is organized is to do business as an industrial development corporation as prescribed by Chapter 210 of the Public Acts of 1955, as codified in Section 6-2801, et seq., Tennessee Code Annotated, as amended by Chapter 222, Public Acts of 1959.

• Library Board of Directors

  The Library Board has the power to direct the affairs of the library, including appointment of a librarian, who shall direct the internal affairs of the library, and such assistants or employees as may be necessary. The Library Board may make and enforce rules and regulations and establish branches at its discretion, subject to available funding. It may expend funds for the special training and formal education of library personnel; provided, that such personnel shall agree to work in the library for at least (2) years after completion of such training and education. The Library Board may receive donations, devices and bequests to be used by it directly for library purposes. It may hold and convey realty and personal property and negotiate leases for and on behalf of such library. The Library Board shall furnish to the state library agency such statistics and information as may be required. The Board will comply with all state requirements to qualify for available funds.

  The Library Board shall furnish to the City Council each fiscal year, an annual financial report setting forth its current year actual and upcoming year capital and operations requirements during the City's annual budget process. The Board shall be required to operate within the operating budget approves by the City Council without utilizing reserve funds unless that use is approved by the City Council.

• Mayor's Council on Disability

  The Mayor’s Council on Disability is part of an initiative created to help make Chattanooga more accessible to everyone, regardless of their ability. This Council is an advisory group and serves at the pleasure of the Mayor providing direction and guidance to the Mayor and Chattanooga City Council by proposing policies, programs, practices and procedures that give equal opportunity for all individuals with disabilities, empowering them to achieve inclusion and integration into all aspects of society.

• Mayor's Council on Livability and Aging

  The Mayor’s Council on Livability and Aging is part of an initiative created by Senior community champions in 2019 and culminating in AARP designating Chattanooga as an Age-Friendly Community in April 2020. This council's role is to help to make Chattanooga more accessible for the Senior population of our City. This Council functions at the pleasure of the Mayor as an advisory group providing direction and guidance to the Mayor and Chattanooga City Council by proposing policies, programs, practices and procedures that give equal opportunity for all individuals of our aging population., empowering them to achieve inclusion and integration into all aspects of society.

• Mechanical Examiners

  In the interests of the public health, safety and welfare, the following provisions establishing the board of mechanical examiners for the licensing and regulation for those engaged in mechanical heating, ventilation and air conditioning equipment installation are adopted.

• Metropolitan Airport Authority

  The Airport Authority board sets the overall policy for the operation of the airport and is empowered under the provisions of the Metropolitan Airport Authority Act to establish and charge fees, rentals and other charges as well as issue revenue bonds. The Authority is currently comprised of nine members serving staggered three-year terms. Each board member is appointed by the Mayor of Chattanooga and approved by the City Council.

• Office of Family Empowerment Board

• Parks & Outdoors Committee

  Parks and Outdoors Advisory Committee to support the City of Chattanooga Parks and Outdoors Department.

• Passenger Vehicle for Hire and Wrecker Board

  The Passenger Vehicle For Hire Board shall have exclusive jurisdiction of the licensing and regulation of all vehicles for hire and shall constitute the sole administrative agency for the administration of all laws and ordinances relating to the licensing and regulation of all vehicles for hire, to issue certificates of convenience and necessity for the operation of vehicles for hire and to determine the number of vehicles for hire needed for the furnishing of transportation to the inhabitants of the city and the public in general. The board meets every Thursday of each month. The board will meet on February 6, 2025 at the City Council Building Room #101 at 3:30 p.m.

• Plumbing Examiners

  The board created by this division shall hold meetings semi-annually for the examination of applicants to determine their knowledge of the rules and regulations for the installation of plumbing devices, appliances and equipment as set forth in the statutes of the state, this code and other ordinances of the city and the International Plumbing Code; to issue licenses and certificates therefore; to determine the general qualifications and fitness of each applicant for executing the class of work covered by the license applied for and for the transaction of other business.

• Regional Planning Commission

  Its role is to make zoning and land use recommendations to the local legislative bodies and to make final decisions on subdivision requests for Hamilton County and all municipal governments (except Collegedale, East Ridge, Red Bank, Signal Mountain, and Soddy-Daisy).

• Sports Authority Board

  The general nature of the business to be transacted by the Sports Authority Board, and the general purpose for which it is organized, is to do business as a sports authority (a non-profit corporation) as prescribed by the Sports Authorities Act of 1993, as codified in Section 7-67-101, et seq., Tennessee Code Annotated, and as amended by Chapter 18, Public Acts of 1999.

• Stormwater Regulations Board

  The Stormwater Regulations Board is to be made up of the following representatives:
  1 Educator
  2 Neighborhoods Representatives
  1 Industrial/Commercial Representative
  1 Contractors Representative
  1 Developers Representative
  2 At Large Representatives
  1 Environmental Interest Representative

• (The) Sports Authority of the County of Hamilton and the City of Chattanooga, Tennessee

  The purposes for which the Sports Authority is organized are (i) to plan, promote, finance, construct, acquire, renovate, equip and enlarge and operate sports complexes, stadiums, arenas, structures and facilities for public participation and enjoyment of professional and amateur sports, fitness, health and recreational activities, and (ii) to do what is reasonable and necessary to attract professional sports franchises to the City of Chattanooga and Hamilton County thereby promoting economic development and prosperity.

• Tree Commission

  The Commission shall study the problems and determine the needs of the City of Chattanooga in connection with its urban forestry program and report from time to time to the Governing Body of the City as to desirable legislation concerning the tree program and related activities for the City.

  (2) The Commission shall recommend to the Administrator of Public Works candidates for the office of City Forester.

  (3) The Commission shall assist the properly constituted officials of the City, as well as the Governing Body and citizens of the City, in the dissemination of news and information regarding the selection, planting, and maintenance of trees within the incorporated city limits, whether they be on private or public property.

  (4) The Commission shall provide prior notice and maintain minutes of all regular and special meetings pursuant to Tennessee law at which the subject of trees, insofar as it relates to the City, may be discussed by the members of the Commission, officers and personnel of the City and its several divisions, and all others interested in the urban forestry program.

  (5) The Commission shall hear and decide appeals from decisions of the City Forester as set forth in Sec. 32-306.

• Wastewater Regulations and Appeals Board

  The Wastewater Regulations and Appeals Board is responsible for review, implementation and enforcement of Chapter 31 (Sewers, Mains and
  Drainage) of the Chattanooga City Code. The Board also presides over hearings from customers regarding their sewer service or pretreatment requirements, both residential and commercial. Please see Chapter 31
  of the Chattanooga City Code for a complete list of responsibilities.