The Community Relations Committee of the University’s board of trustees will meet on Wednesday, Oct. 9. To submit items for the agenda, please contact Barbara Schlichting at 598-1998 by Wednesday, Sept. 25.
This committee was formed in May 1989. According to the report in the May 12, 1989, issue of the Messenger, “For the first time ever, representatives of the University of the South’s board of trustees held an open meeting to hear concerns of residents and to open a channel for communication.”
More than 40 citizens attended this first meeting, where the mood was described as “genial.” Concerns discussed at that first meeting were leasehold appraisals and job opportunities on campus.
Since then, the Community Relations Committee has met each year with residents to address issues of mutual concern. Topics that have come before this committee in the past include affordable housing, Sewanee Elementary School, emergency services on the Domain, Emerald-Hodgson Hospital, Folks at Home, child care issues, the deer cull and downtown development.
The committee’s charge is: To consider and report to the Board of Trustees on issues relative to the relationship between the University corporation and the people of the village of Sewanee. It is of concern to the Board of Trustees that it be informed of matters relating to the furnishing of municipal services by the University corporation to Sewanee.
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