This chart shows how a local Agenda 21 program is designed to work. (The Herald/ Submitted Photo)

In many points of  history when a non-governmental entity brings about a change in governmental structure it is called a usurpation and it is a similar thought process that has many Sevier County residents opposing the local visioning process Our Smokies, Our Future.

While the major rift between support and opposition for OSOF has to do with both the secrecy of the organization as well as numerous accusations that the visioning process is a local branch of the United Nation’s government altering Agenda 21 program, changes to local government are a real possibility that can result from this visioning process.

When the results of Chattanooga’s 1984 Vision 2000 had manifested, a restructuring of the local government was one of the changes the city’s current mayor and Vision 2000 Executive Director Ron Littlefield championed as a positive outcome.

“The change in the form of government is a major accomplishment that people tend to overlook,” he said of Chattanooga.

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