Mayor Indya Kincannon will hold public hearings with City department directors next week as she begins to prepare her 2021-22 budget.

Due to pandemic protocols, the hearings will be conducted virtually on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, March 23-25, 2021. The meeting is public, and anyone who wishes to follow the discussions may do so through Community Television of Knoxville (CTV) at www.CTVKnox.org.

The budget hearings also will be broadcast by CTV on cable television:
 
Xfinity (Comcast) – Channel 12
Charter (Spectrum) – Channel 193
WOW! (Knology) – Channel 6
AT&T U-verse – Channel 99


Here is the department-by-department lineup, along with the schedule of when you can watch the budget hearings on CTV:

Tuesday, March 23, 2021 (to be live streamed)

9 a.m. – introduction and overview of budget process
9:30 a.m. – Public Service Department
10 a.m. – Knoxville Police Department
10:45 a.m. – Knoxville Fire Department
11:15 a.m. – Information Systems
11:45 a.m. – lunch break
1 p.m. – Fleet Services
1:30 p.m. – Employee Benefits & Risk Management
2 p.m. – Knoxville Area Transit
2:30 p.m. – Zoo Knoxville


Wednesday, March 24, 2021 (to be broadcast at 5 p.m., after previously-scheduled CTV programming)

9 a.m. – Policy and Strategic Projects
9:15 a.m. – Special Events
9:30 a.m. – Communications
9:45 a.m. – Sustainability
10 a.m. – 311/211 Center for Service Innovation
10:15 a.m. – Community Empowerment (Title VI, Police Advisory & Review Committee, Office of Neighborhood Empowerment)
10:45 a.m. – Economic and Community Development
11:15 a.m. – Housing and Neighborhood Development (Office on Homelessness)
Noon – lunch break
1 p.m. – Knoxville-Knox County Planning
1:30 p.m. – Knoxville-Knox County Community Action Committee
1:45 p.m. – Knoxville-Knox County Emergency Management Agency
2 p.m. – Law
2:15 p.m. – Civil Service
2:30 p.m. – Engineering
3 p.m. – Plans Review and Inspections


Thursday, March 25, 2021 (to be live streamed)

9 a.m. – Parks and Recreation
9:30 a.m. – Public Assembly Facilities
10 a.m. – Human Resources
10:30 a.m. – Finance
11 a.m. – Other organizations; miscellaneous


Video of the hearings also will be rebroadcast on CTV at a later time and added to a searchable archive of City public meetings and events on CTV’s website.

For more information on the City’s budget and timeline, visit www.knoxvilletn.gov/budget.