Kelly Promotes Five Staff Members To Push “Strategic Initiatives”
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By Ellis Smith and The Tennessee Conservative Staff –
Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly announced that he is filling five roles in his administration by promoting currently serving staff to drive agenda items from the One Chattanooga strategy.
Subject to City Council approval, the mayor has named Karitsa Mosley Jones as administrator of the Department of Early Learning. Mosley Jones has been working since August to establish the mayor’s Community Forward partnership with Hamilton County Schools, overseeing a staff of seven to connect parents and students to resources and services. Mosley Jones has a background as District 5 representative on the Hamilton County School Board.
Kelly also named Chris Anderson as the mayor’s senior advisor for legislative initiatives, where he will be chiefly responsible for code and ordinance reform. Anderson, who was formerly the administrator of the Department of Innovation Delivery and Performance, will work closely with City Council on a overhaul of city ordinances with a goal of making housing more affordable and to streamline government rules.
“We have a lot of unwieldy code and zoning rules, and we’ve been kicking the can down the road for too many years,” Kelly said.
Anderson served on the Chattanooga City Council from 2013 to 2017, while also serving as chair of the council’s Economic and Community Development Committee.
Subject to confirmation by City Council, Kelly tapped Tim Moreland to fill Anderson’s former role as administrator of the Department of Innovation Delivery and Performance.
Moreland is the deputy administrator of the Department of Innovation Delivery and Performance where he helps direct the city’s innovation and performance efforts. Prior to that he was the founding director of the Office of Performance Management and Open Data at the City of Chattanooga.
The mayor also appointed Dylan Rivera to join his staff as the director of policy planning and implementation, filling the role vacated by Brooke Satterfield when she was promoted to deputy chief of staff.
Rivera will help guide strategic initiatives, working with departments across the city to help implement the mayor’s One Chattanooga strategy.
Rivera formerly served as the director of innovation special projects in the Department of Innovation Delivery and Performance, and worked as assistant political director for Kelly’s mayoral campaign. In other roles, Rivera served as project manager for the Southeast Tennessee Development District and as lead researcher for the prescription drug monitoring program, EirSystems.
Kelly also appointed Kimberly Strong, who has worked in various roles within the city since 1993, to fill the role of constituent services coordinator.
Strong previously served as a public information specialist for the City of Chattanooga Water Quality Program, where she served as a liaison between the department and the public.
The appointments of Mosley Jones and Moreland are subject to City Council confirmation, and will not become effective until they have been confirmed.
About the Author: Ellis Smith is the Director of Special Projects for the City of Chattanooga. Follow Ellis on Twitter @ellisthered
