News Letter

 13 March 2025 General Meeting

First meeting of the 2025 year series.

KPD

Officers Sargent Jafar F lemming and Ott attended to answer any questions from the members. They report that the Western part of Colonial Village is very quiet as far as crime is concerned. There is a halfway house for parolees in the stone house on Stone Road. It is run by a house master that keeps tabs of the occupants. They are helped to return to society and get jobs by the organization running the house.  The situation of the homeless in Knoxville was discussed at length. The city is giving more attention to the problem by providing help to the homeless going light on the police actions. The house in south Colonial village that has problems (possible drug sales) as been eliminated with new tenants. Officer Ott says his only interaction with that area was some pit bulls running in the neighbor hood.   The contact for the Cemtral Sector Foreman is Darrel Griffin should anyone need to contact the local area police with problems.  

Karen Adams candidate for City Council to replace term limited Tommy Smith gave brief introduction of her self and ideas for her campaign.   

10/10/2024 General Meeting

KPD – No show.

Speaker Mr. Phil Ballard Property Assessor Knox City.

Mr. Jim Weaver Assistant Deputy

Ms. Marsha Robinson Adm. Asst.

Mr. Ballard gave out a package of material for our inspection.  

The current tax rate is 0.00255. This amount is  on the accessed value of your property.

The algorithm used  in the assessment process is to consider the value of property within one quarter mile of your property to assign a value to your particular holding.

Businesses are assessed based on the personal property and the equipment value. Again a computer is used. The software is called “Computer Assisted Mxxx Appraisal” CAMA, sorry I did not catch the “M” of software title.

Property is currently accessed on a four year cycle, it is going to be changed to one year.  The handout Mr. Ballard provided is in a section below titled Tax Documents. 

09/12/2024 General Meeting

KPD

Officer John Morgan had some Information about events in October.
The National Night Out will be 1 October 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM.

October 14th6:00PM to 8:00 PM a “Safe in Place” will be held  

at the Meridian Methodist Church on Chapman Highway.  

There will be Fire Trucks and other public service vehicles on display.

Gemeral Meeting

Due to the failure of the listserve notice of the meeting was not

published. The attendance was zero members except for Terry and Joe.

Early voting starts on October 16th and ends October 31st.

8/8/2024 General Meeting Speaker -  Dr. Josh Van Pelt Mooreland Heights school

KPD – Officers Michael Hutchens an Dylan Nobel came to the meeting.  Officer Hutchens led the discussion on the alleged “Drug House” in the  Southeast portion of Colonial village. They are gathering events and  visitor logs to build a case against the current  occupants. The house is a rental that is owned by a less than reputable  landlord with several other shady tenants about town. Officer Noble  will replace Officer Hutchens as the police representative.  

Speaker – Dr. Van Pelt. Gave a description of the current situation at  Mooreland Heights school. They have increased the staff and have about  400 students this year. Student progress is measured over years, not a  quick fix, but is constantly improving. Absenteeism  has steadily decreased over the years.

There are now two preschoolers rooms – three year old's. There was no  PTA at Mooreland Heights but one has formed along with the “Rocket  Foundation” that provides aid and support for the school. There is a  rocket mounted in the playground that serves as a school  icon. There are about 17 kids in a class now, twenty teachers and two  “specialist teachers”.This year as an introduction for the staff,  teachers visited the neighborhood that the student body comes from, to  give the teachers an idea of the student body environment.   The staff encourages “self care”, friendliness and love as part of the  curriculum in addition to the standard fare.

As usual members bought school supplies for the current year.

11 July 2024 – Meeting cancelled due to lack of a speaker

12 June 2024 - Three KPD officers attended, prepared to answer member questions

9 May 2024 – Amber Parker, Executive Director of Ijams Nature Center,  spoke on the improvements and upgrades that are being implemented at  Ijams

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11 April 2024 - No info.

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14 March 2024 General Meeting 

Canceled because of fowl weather.

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