Inventory of old projects could ease some of city’s budget tension
As city council members — including Edmund Ford Sr. (from left), Chase Carlisle and Worth Morgan — prepare for the spring budget season, the city administration is taking an inventory of leftover capital funding that could ease traditional friction between council members and the mayor in what the administration says will be a “tight” budget. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian file)
The roundup of line items with relatively small amounts of money comes as the Strickland administration offers its first details of what the coming city budget proposal will include in a "tight" budget season at City Hall.
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