Speakers: Your City Mayoral Candidates - Bo Bennett, Ivan Harmon, Madeline Rogero and Mark Padgett
Facilitator: Todd Howell from WBIR-TV 10
Topic: Get to know your candidates – a question and answer session
This was a special opportunity to meet and get to know the city mayoral candidates. The candidates were presented with 10 pre-selected questions. Each candidate was given an allotted time to answer each question.
Here are some pictures and a clip from a question revolving around Metro Government:
A short video on the responses from Knoxville City Mayoral candidates in June 2011 during a Fountain City Business & Professional Association meeting. The question in the video asks about Metro Government.
Speakers: Membership, with facilitators from Compassion Knoxville
Topic: Forum on Homelessness in Knoxville to provide input to Compassion Knoxville
At this meeting the membership was presented with 2 questions. Facilitators listened to all comments and suggestions made regarding the homeless in Knoxville, and wrote down the responses. The purpose was to search out ways to address homelessness in an inclusive, transparent, and informed process. The following two questions were discussed:
- Homelessness is an issue that impacts our community, what do you suggest we do about it?
- What are the major concerns you have about dealing with homelessness?
Thanks to everyone who came out and participate to share their thoughts and ideas!
Compassion Knoxville is a citizen-led effort to gather public input on ways to address homelessness. Past efforts to address homelessness in our community have mostly come from service providers or local government bodies. Compassion Knoxville is attempting to gather citizen input on ways that our community can best address homelessness, which is a community issue, thus the community should have the opportunity to participate in finding ways to address the issue. For more information on Compassion Knoxville please visit their site at www.compassionknoxville.com.
We had another great Fountain City Easter Egg Hunt this year, with a good turnout and lots of fun. There were 3 age groups, and the kids took home some really nice prizes, including bicycles for all of our grand prize winners! Here are some photos from the event:
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Kaylee Fine, the 4-7 age group grand prize winner!
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Delaina Quillen, Grand Prize Winner for the 4-7 age group
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Brandt Norris, Grand Prize Winner for 0-3 age group
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Brianna Blalock, Grand Prize Winner for the 0-3 age group
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Christian Harrop, Grand Prize Winner for 8-12 age group
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Ella Parker, 1-year old winner of Grand Prize for the 8-12 age group!
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Another shot of Ella Parker, 1-year old winner of Grand Prize for the 8-12 age group!
Speakers: Don Lindsey with AAA of East Tennessee
Topic: Conversing Fuel, Enhancing Your Sideview Mirrors and More
The Fountain City BPA had the privilege of hearing from Don Lindsey with AAA of East Tennessee. He discussed 3 main topics:
- The new Enhanced Sideview Mirror Settings, which help improve blindspot visibility by adjusting sideview mirrors further outwards instead of looking at the back of your car when in your normal driving position.
- The new update in steering wheel hand positions, which are 9 and 3, or 8 and 4, due to the potential hazard of airbags injuring arms and wrists even further during impact. It’s also considered to be a more comfortable, or natural, position then the traditional “10 and 2″ position.
- The outdated rule for keeping distance between cars ahead of you, where you measure one car length. The new rule of thumb should be to use time as a measurement instead of car lengths, where you pick a stationary spot on the road or roadside, and count how many seconds between the time the car in front of you passes it and the time you pass it, which should be between 3-4 seconds to provide plenty of reaction time.
Don also talked about ways to save on fuel consumption, and provided a brochure for tips.
Here are the handouts that Don had available:
Speakers: Knox County Law Director, Joe Jarret Esquire
Topic: Current Trends in labor law affecting the business owner.
When: Wednesday, March 9, from 11:45 am to 1:00 pm.
This is a great opportunity to ask questions regarding the Tax Laws and changes that do or will affect your business!
Joe Jarret is the Knox County Law Director. This is the third time in his legal career that he has served a public entity as its chief legal counsel and the second time as a law director for a charter form of county government. Joe has practiced law before the Tennessee Supreme Court, lower federal and state courts and is a Federal and State Mediator.
He is a former active duty United States Army Combat Arms Officer and former United States Air Force Special Agent with service overseas.
He as adjunct professor of law and public policy with the University of Tennessee Political Science Department and frequently lectures on behalf of the College of Law.
Joe is an award-winning writer who has published over 90 articles in various professional journals and holds a Bachelor of Science Degree, a Masters in Public Administration degree, a Juris Doctor degree and a post-Graduate Certificate in Public Management.
Joe is the 2009 recipient of Gordon Johnston Award for the Ethical and Professional Practice of Local Government Law.
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Inclement Weather Policy for FCBPA Meetings
FCBPA will follow the cancellation policy of the Knox County School System to help ensure the safety of our members and guests during inclement weather. Please check the local television and radio stations, or our website for updates, as well as ourTwitter and Facebook pages. Should you have any questions, please contact one of the officers.
Here are some resources to check cancellations:
Thank You,
FCBPA
Monday, December 13th, 2010 | News | No Comments
The Fountain City Business and Professional Association held their annual Holiday After Hours event on Tuesday, December 7th, at the Commercial Bank across from the Duck Pond in the heart of Fountain City. Business and community leaders enjoyed networking, food, door prizes and a silent auction. More details in this week’s Knoxville Focus, section B (or page 5 of the PDF).
Tags: holidays, networking
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