Workshops and Special Topics

League of Women Voters^®
of Knoxville/Knox County

Hillside and Ridgetop Protection Plan. Redistricting. Stormwater Committee. Ten Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness.

League Observers often cover Workshops and meetings that focus on special topics of interest to citizens.
Categories may be added to this section as meetings are scheduled.

Hillside and Ridgetop Protection Plan

For background information on this plan, visit the Metropolitan Planning Commission Website

Redistricting

Knox County Administrator of Elections Greg Mackay has announced a new Knox Co. Election Commission website to provide a clearinghouse for redistricting information.
The site includes information on the legal Basis for redistricting, a guide to redistricting, and a powerpoint presentation presented at the February 19, 2011 redistricting workshop.
In 2010 and 2011, the following legislative bodies will adopt a redistricting plan:

Knox County Commission
Knox County Board of Education
Knoxville City Council
Town of Farragut Board of Alderman
Tennessee State House
Tennessee State Senate
United States Congress

Upcoming Workshops:
5 PM on March 17, 2011 workshop on City Redistricting, Main Assembly City/County Bldg.

Stormwater Committee

For background information on this committee, visit the MPC Website
Next Meeting:
1:30 PM Thursday, March 24, 2011 Knox County Engineering & Public Works Bldg D 205 West Baxter Avenue Knoxville, TN 37917-6404 (865) 215-5825

Ten Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness

The Knoxville and Knox County Ten-Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness was adopted in October 2005. It is targeted to serve chronically homeless individuals, who are defined by HUD to be disabled people who have been homeless for more than one year, or who have had at least four episodes of homelessness in the last three years.
On February 9, 2011 Citizens for the Ten Year Plan announced that it is partnering with TYP Choice on a citizens' process to discuss how our community can best address homelessness. This effort will seek agreement on a feasible and effective homeless plan, and will result in a set of recommendations to be considered by City and County leaders. Our goal is to have these recommendations ready by late summer 2011. Until this community process is completed, the new development of permanent supportive housing through the Ten-Year Plan is on hold and the TYP will not pursue any new initiatives. Other elements of the TYP (homelessness prevention, coordination of services, existing permanent supportive housing) will continue.
On February 25, 2011, Ron Peabody of TYP Choice and Stephanie Matheny of Citizens for the Ten Year Plan announced the formation of the Initiating Committee, which met on Saturday, March 5, 201. This meeting was open to the public, and only addressed the process to be used to gather community input, develop proposals, and reach agreement on a set of recommendations for how Knoxville and Knox County can better address homelessness. This meeting will not address the merits of the Ten-Year Plan.
The initiating committee met on March 5, 2011. They agreed to sponsor numerous small community meetings from mid-April through mid-May, as well as one or two larger meetings during that time as the first step in the process. The group's goal is to complete the process by late summer.
For more information, please visit the TYP Website

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