The Hamilton County Board of Education and Hamilton County Commission held a joint meeting, at the school board, to discuss redistricting and how it affects schools October 26,2021. Staff Photo by Robin Rudd / From left, county commissioner David Sharpe and school board chairman Tucker McClendon confer during the meeting. It feels like I have one vote, but I make up a very large portion of our student population," Robinson said.
"He was the one who explained that 'It'll take me an hour to drive across my district,' and my concern with that is how well I can serve a population that is that distant from me, especially since some of them don't feed into any of the schools I serve," Perez said.īoard member Tiffanie Robinson of Chattanooga said she has the most schools in her district and she represents about 7,000 students, which is about 16% of the district's 44,000 students. That fixed us at whatever number we had back in '93, and that number was nine."īoard member Marco Perez of Signal Mountain mentioned an ongoing concern that proposed maps split feeder schools from high schools and referenced a comment made by Commissioner Randy Fairbanks, R-Soddy-Daisy, last week about the breadth of his district. Hamilton County Election Commission administrator Scott Allen said that in light of the county commission discussing its own expansion to 11 districts, it would initially cause confusion for voters if the number of school districts remained at nine.īoard attorney Scott Bennett said the law allows for the number of board seats to differ from the number of county commission seats, but that the current number of nine school board seats must remain unless the Tennessee General Assembly approves a change.Īn act passed by the Legislature in 1992 says the number of school board members in Hamilton County should be equal to the number of county commission districts, but Bennett said the act no longer holds, "because the General Assembly adopted a new legislative scheme that shifted us just from the old system of appointed school board members to elected school board members. Members of the Hamilton County Board of Education and Hamilton County Commission discussed at a joint meeting Tuesday the pros and cons of splitting the county into 11 school board districts, which would result in adding two more seats to the school board.
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