The Joint Economic and Community Development Board & Executive Committee

In 1998, the Tennessee Legislature enacted legislation requiring local governments in each county to adopt a comprehensive growth plan. The purpose of the legislation was to eliminate disputes between cities and counties and to make annexation a more orderly process. The legislation required among other things, the establishment of a Joint Economic and Community Development Board by inter-local agreement. The purpose of this Board is to foster communication relative to economic and community development between governmental entities, industry, and private citizens.

The Joint Economic and Community Development Board
Dr. Clifton Woods – Chair
Suzanne Shelton
Sandra Martin - Secretary/Treasurer
Roger Osborne
Jim Clayton
Bill Haslam - Mayor, City of Knoxville
Thomas "Tank" Strickland - Chair, County Commission
Paul Pinkston - Chair, County Commission Finance Committee
Tony Norman - Chair, County Commission Intergovernmental Committee
James Kenneth Phillips
Mike Ragsdale - Mayor, Knox County
Ralph McGill - Mayor, Farragut

Meeting Schedule, 2010
February 11, 7:30 am
April 8, 7:30 am
June 10, 7:30 am
August 12, 7:30 am
October 14, 7:30 am
December 9, 7:30 am*

* Annual Meeting

Executive Committee
Sandra Martin
Bill Haslam - Mayor, City of Knoxville
Mike Ragsdale - Mayor, Knox County
Suzanne Shelton
Dr. Clifton Woods
Eddy Ford - Mayor, Farragut

Executive Committee
Meeting Schedule, 2010
February 11, 7:30 am
April 8, 7:30 am
August 12, 7:30 am
October 14, 7:30 am