Offices and meeting rooms at Kingsport City Hall have received a needed makeover

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March 7th, 2015 7:00 pm by Matthew Lane

KINGSPORT Change has come to city hall.

Well, at least in the form of new paint, carpet, and furniture for the 60-year-old building, along with some reshuffling of the space in the city managers office.

The renovation is the first phase of a two-phase overhaul and relocation project taking place at city hall. City Manager Jeff Fleming said the work took about five days and wrapped up last week.

Its a great way to make use of the facilities we have available to us and also modernize them to where they are more user friendly for our citizens, Fleming said.

Kingsport allocated $150,000 in last falls bond issuance for the two-phase project. The work recently completed included a fresh coat of paint in the second-floor hallway and new paint, chairs and two 80-inch televisions in the second-floor conference room.

The council room is L-shaped and the place where the public sits ... they could not see the screen, so we replaced it with modern TVs viewable from the gallery as well as for board members, Fleming said. We upgraded all the technology so as were presenting were able to take turns presenting around the table. Its a wireless device that connects to a laptop and can project on both screens at the same time.

The conference room chairs were re-purposed to other departments throughout the city while the public gallery chairs are planned to be surplused out, Fleming said.

They were original to the building in 1962, Fleming said. They were very narrow and werent very comfortable for guests. The new chairs are wider with spacers and more comfortable without being too close to the person beside you.

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Offices and meeting rooms at Kingsport City Hall have received a needed makeover