LEGISLATIVE BUDGET HEARINGS
Tuesday, May 17, 2016
Main Assembly Room in the City-County Building
Vice-Mayor Duane Grieve, Presiding
8:30 am WELCOME AND OPENING COMMENTS: Duane Grieve, Vice-Mayor
8:40 am MAYOR’S BUDGET INTRODUCTION: Madeline Rogero, Mayor
8:50 am BUDGET OVERVIEW: Christi Branscom, Deputy to the Mayor/Chief Operating Officer; Jim York, Finance Director
9:45 am MAYOR’S OFFICE: Madeline Rogero, Mayor
• Office of Community Relations: Dr. Avice Reid, Director
10:00 am POLICY AND REDEVELOPMENT: Dr. Bill Lyons, Deputy to the Mayor/Chief Policy Officer
• Communications: Jesse Mayshark, Director
• Special Events: Judith Foltz Director
• Community Development: Becky Wade, Director
• Office of Neighborhoods: David Massey, Coordinator
• Redevelopment: Dawn Michelle Foster, Director
• Downtown: Rick Emmett, Coordinator
• Sustainability: Erin Gill, Director
• Office of Business Support: Patricia Robledo, Business Liaison
• Knoxville Chamber/Innovation Valley: Rhonda Rice, Executive Vice-President
11:15 am LAW DEPARTMENT: Charles Swanson, Director
• Risk Management: Gary Eastes
11:30 am FIRE DEPARTMENT: Stan Sharp, Chief
11:45 am CIVIL SERVICE: Vicki Hatfield, Director
NOON LUNCH
1:30 pm OPERATIONS: Christi Branscom, Deputy to the Mayor/Chief Operating Officer
• Finance: Jim York, Director
• Employee Relations: Christine Fitzgerald, Manager
• Information Systems: Janet Wright, Director
• 311: Russ Jensen, Manager
• Knoxville Area Transit: Dawn Distler, Transit Director
• Knoxville Convention Center: Mary Bogert, General Manager
• Visit Knoxville: Kim Bumpas, President
• Public Assembly Facilities: Greg Mackay, Director
• PUBLIC WORKS – David Brace, Senior Director
• Building Inspections: Peter Ahrens, Director
• Engineering: Jim Hagerman, Director
• Fleet: Keith Shields, Director
• Parks and Recreation: Joe Walsh, Director
• Public Service: Chad Weth, Director
3:00 pm POLICE DEPARTMENT: David Rausch, Chief
• Knoxville/Knox County Emergency Management Agency
3:15 pm OTHER AGENCIES
• Metropolitan Planning Commission: Gerald Green, Executive Director
• Knoxville Zoo: Lisa New, Executive Director
• CAC: Barbara Kelly, Executive Director
4:00 pm CITY COURT: John Rosson, Municipal Judge
4:15 pm LEGISLATIVE: Duane Grieve, Vice-Mayor
BREAK
5:00 pm PUBLIC HEARING