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Tennessee Lt. Governor's Office
Statement: Lt. Governor Ramsey on the State of the State
Jan 28, 2013
Lt. Governor Ron Ramsey made the following statement after the conclusion of tonight’s State of the State address:
“Governor Haslam tonight has once again laid out a bold vision for Tennessee. It is a vision of fiscal responsibility that stands in stark contrast to Barack Obama and his spread-thrift allies in Congress. Unified Republican government in Tennessee has heard the citizens’ call for more jobs, less spending and smaller government and continues to deliver as promised. I look forward to an efficient legislative session which delivers a balanced budget that not only meets our state’s immediate financial needs but also cuts taxes and puts money away for a rainy day.”
Tennessee Lt. Governor's Office
State Archivists to Visit Wartburg in Search of Civil War Memorabilia
(Published: March 10, 2015)
Representatives from the Tennessee State Library and Archives will be in Wartburg on Wednesday, March 25 to record and digitize Civil War memorabilia owned by local residents for an exhibit titled “Looking Back: The Civil War in Tennessee.”
Archivists will be at the Wartburg Public Library, 514 Spring Street in Wartburg, that day from 10 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. During that time, they invite area residents to bring in original photographs, documents and other artifacts related to the Civil War.
The archivists will scan or take digital photographs of the materials, some of which will be featured in the exhibit, located online at www.tncivilwar150.org. The archivists will not actually take possession of the items from their owners.
Individuals may call (615) 741-1883 or e-mail civilwar.tsla@tn.gov to schedule a reservation with the archivists. Reservation forms and available times may be found on the State Library and Archives’ section of the Office of the Secretary of State web site at http://www.tn.gov/tsla/cwtn/events.htm.
“This is an important project for the Tennessee State Library and Archives,” Secretary of State Tre Hargett said. “The Civil War was a major event in our state’s history, so we need to take appropriate steps to make sure these treasures are properly preserved for future generations.”
Attendees at the event will receive copies of the digital photographs and tips on how to preserve their Civil War memorabilia.
Archivists plan to visit as many of Tennessee’s 95 counties as possible in search of material for the exhibit, which commemorates the Civil War’s 150th anniversary.
Media coverage of the archiving work is encouraged.
Tennessee Highway Patrol
Tennessee Highway Patrol to Increase Visibility During St. Patrick's Day
Friday, March 13, 2015 | 02:24 pm
NASHVILLE --- Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) Colonel Tracy Trott today announced that state troopers will increase visibility and traffic safety enforcement efforts during the St. Patrick’s Day holiday. The 48-hour traffic safety campaign will begin at 12:01 a.m., Tuesday, March 17 and conclude at midnight, Wednesday, March 18.
“St. Patrick’s Day is traditionally a very festive holiday, and we want to remind motorists that drinking and driving will not be tolerated. State troopers will proactively enforce DUI laws to help prevent fatal crashes and save lives across Tennessee,” Colonel Trott said. “Seat belt safety is also a top priority. We will aggressively seek seat belt violators – another major cause of traffic fatalities – across the state,” he added.
Last year, four people were killed in vehicular crashes during the 48-hour St. Patty’s Day holiday period. One of the traffic fatalities occurred in an alcohol-related crash, while none of the four individuals killed were wearing safety restraints.
The THP arrested 54 individuals on suspicion of impaired driving and issued 416 seat belt citations statewide during last year’s St. Patty’s Day holiday period.
During this St. Patrick’s holiday, state troopers will utilize traffic enforcement tools, such as, sobriety and seat belt checkpoints, saturation patrols and bar and tavern checks to maximize public safety on Tennessee roadways.
To date, preliminary statistics indicate that 157 people have died on Tennessee roadways in 2015, compared to 171 traffic fatalities during the same time period in 2014.
THP scheduled enforcements for this St. Patrick’s Day holiday are attached, as well as statistical data for the 2014 St. Patrick’s Day period.
For more information on the consequences of impaired driving in Tennessee, visit http://tn.gov/safety/duioutline.htm.
ST. PATRICK’S DAY DRIVING TIPS
· Plan Ahead. If you plan to drink, arrange a safe way home before the festivities begin.
· Before drinking, designate a sober driver and give that person your keys.
· If you’re impaired, call a taxi, use public transportation, or call a sober friend or family member to get you home safely.
· Use the local Sober Ride program.
· If you see a drunk driver on the road, promptly contact your local law enforcement agency or dial *THP (*847) from a mobile phone.
· Remember, Friends Don’t Let Friends Drive Drunk. If you or someone who is about to ride with someone who is impaired, take their keys and help them make other arrangements to get to their destination safely.
· And remember, the tragedies and costs of driving drunk are serious and real. Not only do you risk killing yourself or someone else, but the trauma and financial costs of a crash or an arrest for drunk driving are significant.
The Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security’s (www.TN.Gov/safety) mission is to serve,
secure, and protect the people of Tennessee.
City of Nashville
Mayor Dean, Developers Move Forward on Convention Center Redevelopment
3/27/2015
Spectrum | Emery, OliverMcMillan Plan Mixed-Use Development Headlined by Extensive Retail Offerings, Home for National Museum of African American Music
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Mayor Karl Dean and developers Spectrum | Emery and OliverMcMillan announced today that they are moving forward with a plan to redevelop the Nashville Convention Center into a mixed-use project, featuring 205,000 square feet of downtown retail, restaurant and entertainment space and the National Museum of African American Music. The project also includes a 24-story Class A office tower and a 27-story residential tower.
"All in all, this will be what downtown as a whole has become: a place where people can live, work and play," Mayor Dean said. "It also will be a place that will make visitors want to stay and play a little longer, arriving in Nashville a day early or leaving a day late - or maybe both. The big thing we've been missing downtown is a high-quality retail center that will attract residents and visitors alike, the kind of shopping destination that many other cities offer. This will make our downtown more complete and give people another reason to come to the core of the city."
The approximately $400 million, 6.2-acre development at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Broadway will include a retail experience unlike anything downtown Nashville has seen before, creating a shopping destination in the heart of the city to give downtown the one thing it still lacks after a decades-long resurgence. San Diego-based OliverMcMillan, which will establish an office here, has designed, developed and manages more than 8 million square feet of mixed-use projects with a total value exceeding $3 billion. OliverMcMillan's project leadership team includes Dene Oliver, CEO; Paul Buss, president, and Eric Buchanan, senior managing director.
"Our plan with retail, restaurants and entertainment is to recruit tenants who are true to place," said Dene Oliver, CEO of OliverMcMillan. "We want to enhance the Nashville experience and deliver a development that diversifies downtown's offerings. At the same time we do not want Nashville to lose what makes it unique; we want to help extend its individuality with retail that excites, entertains and belongs. Our goal is to provide options that resonate just as much with locals who live or work downtown as it does with visitors in for a conference at the Music City Center, in town for a Predators game or a concert at The Ryman."
Spectrum | Emery and OliverMcMillan also plan to build two towers on the site that will offer at least 300,000 square feet of Class A office space and approximately 350 residential units. Each of those buildings will have its own parking, while the Metro Convention Center Authority will own and operate a public garage under the retail, restaurant and entertainment space.
Spectrum | Emery is well known in Middle Tennessee for its extensive development of Class A office space in the Cool Springs area. Spectrum's project leadership team includes Pat Emery, president, Spectrum | Emery, and Darryl Dewberry, CEO, Spectrum Properties.
"This is the pivotal project for America's most exciting city," Emery said. "We feel a deep personal responsibility to create a dynamic mixed-use development that will enhance the downtown Nashville experience for everyone that loves this city. We've worked tirelessly for over a year with world-class designers, architects and city planners to ensure this project will deliver precisely what is needed for the city. We will raise the bar on what downtown Nashville can offer both residents and visitors, further igniting it as an epicenter for commerce, creativity and convenience."
Joining Spectrum | Emery and OliverMcMillan on the development team are Nashville-based architectural firm Gresham Smith & Partners, Nashville-based landscape architects Hawkins Partners, Nashville-based Sims Strategic Diversity Consultants Incorporated, the local offices of Skanska and Cushman & Wakefield | Cornerstone, and globally recognized architectural firm Gensler.
The developers will build the 50,000-square-foot shell of the National Museum of African American Music within the retail facility, giving the museum prime real estate alongside one of downtown's busiest, most visible intersections. The museum will be responsible for covering the costs of its furnishings and exhibits.
"From the time the United States was a colony, African Americans have created, innovated, performed and participated in the process of music making in America," said Henry Hicks, president and CEO of the museum. "The National Museum of African American Music will celebrate the tireless efforts and endless impact African Americans have on all types of music. We're honored to be part of this reimagining of the Nashville Convention Center. We appreciate the Mayor, Spectrum | Emery and OliverMcMillan for including us as the flagship of this transformative development to share the story of American culture through music."
Metro Government had previously committed to giving the museum $10 million to supplement fund-raising from the private sector, and Mayor Dean reaffirmed that commitment today.
"The museum is now closer to being built than ever before, and I hope the philanthropic community will join Metro Government in supporting this effort," Mayor Dean said.
"The National Museum of African American Music is a much needed resource that will unite organizations like The R&B Foundation with artists and like-minded entities who collectively want to protect, preserve and promote the impact our music has on American culture," added Damon Williams, board chairman of The R&B Foundation. "We are very excited about being closely associated with NMAAM and have already had phenomenal opportunities to collaborate on activities that allow genre- or artist-specific organizations to create greater awareness and provide credit to music that our entire country - and the world - loves."
The Nashville Convention Center opened in 1987. After it became too small and outdated to accommodate large conventions and meetings, it was replaced in 2013 by the Music City Center at 201 Fifth Avenue South.
City of Memphis
Mayor's Office
Mayor A C Wharton, Jr.
A C Wharton, Jr. was sworn in as the Mayor of the City of Memphis on October 26, 2009. Mayor Wharton was elected by a 61% margin of victory against numerous challengers to become Memphis' first new Mayor in 18 years. Upon taking office, Mayor Wharton immediately set about focusing his administration to execute a new agenda of transparency, responsiveness, innovation, and delivering efficient, equitable, and excellent service for the people of Memphis.
Mayor Wharton believes that Memphis can be a City of Choice for people, families, and businesses of all kinds. His vision is to align civic, commercial, and political leaders to move our economy forward and improve the quality of life for all residents. In every word and deed since taking office, he has called for the City of Memphis to celebrate its successes, honor its singular accomplishments, confront its challenges, and claim its place as a great American city.
The Wharton administration and its partners have received national recognition for Memphis' remarkable revitalization. The Mayor has focused specifically on new initiatives that dramatically increase jobs and capital investments, reduce crime, improve government efficiency and transparency, add more parks and green space to the core city, and improve public education for all children. Mayor Wharton has addressed major policy institutions and conferences of the Brookings Institute, CEOs for Cities, and the National Association for Counties. Memphis was one of only seven communities nationwide to be invited by Mayor Michael Bloomberg to take part in a national poverty-reduction initiative co-funded by the Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Social Innovation Fund and is working with an ambitious new White House initiative to prevent youth violence throughout Memphis.
Prior to being elected Mayor of the City of Memphis, A C Wharton, Jr. served as the Mayor of Shelby County for seven years and was the first African-American elected to that office.
Twice elected as Shelby County Mayor, Wharton led initiatives that shaped the region's future. He inspired Operation Safe Community, the area's first comprehensive crime-fighting plan, developed the first smart growth and sustainability plan for our community, tackled education and early childhood development issues with programs like Books from Birth and Ready, Set, Grow, and reduced the County's inherited debt while limiting its citizens to only one tax increase in seven years.
A visionary leader, Mayor Wharton created a public-private partnership to preserve and cultivate Shelby Farms Park--the largest urban park of its kind in the country--and established the Shelby Farms Greenline, a new urban trail connecting Midtown Memphis to Shelby Farms Park recognizing Memphis' potential as a green, connected, and healthy city.
As the City's leading official, Mayor Wharton has worked untiringly to incubate innovation and create efficiencies throughout government at a level that has brought about dramatic improvements in a relatively short amount of time. These advances have included a rooting out of corruption from within city government. Mayor Wharton established the Office for Talent and Human Capital to develop, retain, and attract the best and brightest young workers. He has pledged 55 miles of new bicycle lanes and hired the City's first Bicycle and Pedestrian Coordinator. And through what has been a difficult economic period for the nation, Mayor Wharton has with the support of others personally shepherded a number of processes that have resulted in thousands of new jobs in Memphis' economic pipeline. In concert with these efforts, he has placed equal attention and invested significant time on job retention and expansion opportunities for companies already located in Memphis.
An attorney by trade, Wharton is a former public defender and served as executive director of the nonprofit Memphis Area Legal Services, which received national recognition as a result of his leadership. In 1982, he wrote and saw passed one of the first state laws in the United States to combat domestic violence. At a national level, he worked for a special appropriation for one of the nation's first transitional living facilities for juveniles. While serving as a public defender, Wharton's passion for reform in criminal justice system's treatment of the mentally ill led to the nationally renowned Jericho Project.
Mayor Wharton received his law degree in 1971, graduating with honors from the University of Mississippi Law School, where he was one of the first African-American students to serve on the Moot Court Board and first to serve on the Judicial Council. He became the University's first African-American professor of law, where he taught for 25 years. He earned a political science degree from Tennessee State University and is a native of Lebanon, Tennessee.
The Mayor and his wife, Ruby, have raised six sons in Memphis.
City of Knoxville
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Waste Connections Running on Normal City Schedule
April 1, 2015 - Waste Connections, the City of Knoxville's household garbage and recycling collector, will run on a regular schedule for city residents this week and will not be affected by the upcoming Easter weekend.
Downtown trash and recycling pickups will also be made following the regular schedule.
The city's recycling centers will be open for recycling; however, the Goodwill Industries attendant will not be available for household goods donations after 1 p.m. on Friday, April 3, or for recycling drop-off and household good donations on Sunday, April 5.
The city's Solid Waste Management Facility at 1033 Elm St. will be closed on Friday, April 3, and Saturday, April 4, in observance of the Easter holiday.
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