Sam Coleman For Council At Large

Sam Coleman is in his eighth year of serving on Nashville's Metro Council since retiring from 32 years of service with the State of Tennessee. As a practicing attorney, board member, and father who serves at Lake Providence Church, Sam's commitment to represent the interest Nashvillians remains in the forefront. Sam is a public servant who improves the quality of life by promoting economic stability for Nashville, TN.

	A Message From Sam To You
	I believe you get out of life what you invest including investing in people. This belief has produced accomplishments that are bench marked. From my college days as a quarterback to my to efforts to revitalize a community, results counts. For the past eight years I've served the Hermitage, Donelson and Antioch district that has experienced positive change and progress.

	Sam's Accomplishments
	Development of the new Cane Ridge High School is based on a nationally-recognized model of smaller learning communities and career academies

	Funding a land appropriation for an elementary school next to Cane Ridge High

	New fire station in the Hobson Pike/Antioch area

	Addition of sub-police station in Hickory Hollow Mall

	Secured land and funding for 22 acres of park to be completed in 2012

	Annexed a community from general to urban services that brings uniform trash collection and street lighting to community

	Development of a community garden on Brook Drive and play park

	Naming and distinguishing the Cane Ridge community

	For better quality life for Nashvillians, I sponsored legislation to recalculate the late fee rates on the water bills to a percentage of the actual bill versus a flat $10 rate

	Sponsored legislation to require government to notify property owners when their property is placed in a flood plane

	Sponsored legislation that supplemented the procurement code policies to require small, women, and minority-owned business to be part the daily bidding process

G. Chambers Williams III I The Tennessean
THE TENNESSEAN
June 4, 2011 ET

Property owners whose homes and businesses have been newly drawn into Nashville's flood plain or floodway could start getting notification letters from the city within a month of the change, giving them more lead time to buy flood insurance and take safety precautions.

A bill up for a final vote by the Metro Council on Tuesday would require the city's planning department to send written notice to property owners within 30 days if their land is included in the 100-year flood plain or the floodway for the first time. The legislation is on the verge of becoming law 13 months after historic flooding damaged or destroyed almost 11,000 properties, more than half of which weren't even in the flood plain.

Monyette Gore, who has lived in the Cane Ridge area for more than eight years, believes her property has been added to the flood plain since the flood of May 2010, which brought water from Mill Creek up to her fence and flooded some other houses in the area. But she'd like to see it in writing.

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It's a pleasure and honor to represent Nashvillians to produce these accomplishment. Vote Sam Coleman for Council-At-Large July 15 through July 30.

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