City and county leaders had their first opportunity Thursday night to publicly wrestle with the implications of a roughly $40 million increase in the cost of a new stadium for the Chattanooga Lookouts.
Members of the Chattanooga City Council and the Hamilton County Commission will have their first opportunity in an open forum Thursday to ask developers and team owners about the new cost for the Lookouts stadium, which has ballooned from an estimated $79.5 million to as much as $129 million.
Members of the Chattanooga City Council have questions about Mayor Tim Kelly s new affordable housing action plan. Among them: Could it require a tax increase?
With one stating it would reduce community oversight to a "nonexistent, impotent and ineffective paper tiger," members of the Chattanooga Police Advisory and Review Committee denounced a new Tennessee law Tuesday that mandates certain changes in how those boards function.