Mayor Madeline Rogero’s operating budget hearings with City department directors will be held Wednesday through Friday, March 22-24 in Room 453, City County Building, 400 Main St.

Department heads and others will present their budget requests, following this tentative schedule:

Wednesday, March 22

1:30 p.m. Overview
1:45 p.m.  Engineering
2:30 p.m.  Parks and Recreation
3:15 p.m.  Inspections
3:45 p.m.  Public Service
4:15 p.m.  Fleet

Thursday, March 23

8:30 a.m. Police
9:15 a.m. Fire
9:45 a.m. Public Assembly Facilities / Knoxville Convention Center
10:30 a.m. Visit Knoxville
11:00 a.m. Zoo Knoxville
11:30 a.m.  Lunch  
1:00 p.m. Law
1:15 p.m. Civil Service
1:30 p.m. Community Development
2:15 p.m. Information Systems
2:45 p.m. Administration / Policy & Redevelopment / Communications / Sustainability / Business Liaison / Special Events /  Community Relations

Friday, March 24

9:00 a.m.  Knoxville-Knox County Community Action Committee
9:30 a.m. Metropolitan Planning Commission
10:00 a.m. Knoxville Area Transit
11:00 a.m. 311 Center for Service Innovation
11:15 a.m. Finance, miscellaneous items covered by Finance

Mayor Rogero will present her proposed budget for 2017/18 at the State of the City luncheon on Friday, April 28. For more information, including documents from a Feb. 10 budget retreat with City Council, see http://www.knoxvilletn.gov/budget.