Here is your Cleveland, Tenn. | Bradley County, Tenn. news on mymix1041.com, sponsored by Toyota of Cleveland: From the Chattanooga Times Free Press…
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From the Chattanooga Times Free Press…
Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly is seeking $20.8 million in state money for a new multi-use stadium that the Chattanooga Lookouts minor league baseball team would primarily use.
The mayor, in a letter this month to Gov. Bill Lee, said $7.3 million of the funds would go to environmentally clean up the proposed site on the former U.S. Pipe/Wheland Foundry tract in the city’s South Broad District.
Also, Kelly in the letter asked the governor’s support for legislation related to the use of sales taxes generated at the new stadium. The idea is to use proceeds from the sales tax to pay off bonds, which could be issued to support the project, officials said.
State legislators from Hamilton County said in interviews the funding isn’t assured, with one noting support for the stadium project is “a hard sell.”
State Sen. Todd Gardenhire, R-Chattanooga, said the state already is putting in $35 million to rebuild Interstate-24 exit ramps near the foundry site.
The Lookouts play at an aging AT&T Field in downtown’s riverfront.
From the Cleveland Daily Banner…
Former Better Business Bureau executive Lisa Geren is the new president of the Community Foundation of Cleveland and Bradley County, board Chairman Ed McIntire said in a statement.
Geren, a native, assumed the helm at the philanthropic organization Jan. 3.
She had been director of the Better Business Bureau’s Cleveland office.
Geren has served as a volunteer for many nonprofits in the community, including Friends of the Library Board and Habitat for Humanity of Cleveland. She also has served as an ambassador for the Cleveland/Bradley Chamber of Commerce for more than 20 years.
She currently is vice president of the Bradley Sunrise Rotary Club, where she was named 2021 Rotarian of the Year, an honor within the organization and the community.
In news today…
The labor statistics for December are in. The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for Tennessee was 3.8%, down from 4% in November, and down from 5.6% one year ago.
Moving closer to home, in Bradley County the unemployment rate was 3%, up from 2.9% in November, and down from 5.5% one year ago. McMinn County was at 3.5%, up from 3.2% in November, and down from 5.9% one year ago. Meigs County was at 3.8%, up from 3.5% in November, and down from 6.5% one year ago. Polk County’s unemployment rate was at 3.2%, up from 2.8% in November, and down from 5.8% one year ago. Rhea County was at 4.2%, up from 3.8% in November, and down from 7.6% one year ago. Hamilton County’s unemployment rate was 3.2%, up from 3% in November, and down from 5.5% one year ago.
