Knoxville Mayor's Budget Hearings Scheduled For March 23-25

Knoxville TN

17 March, 2021

7:36 PM

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From the City of Knoxville: March 17, 2021 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. This press release was produced by the City of Knoxville. The views expressed are the author's own.