County Commission Scorecard: The making of the county budget
Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris makes his budget presentation to the Shelby County Commission on Wednesday, May 1, 2024. (Brad Vest/Special to The Daily Memphian)
It took a 12-hour meeting that stretched into the next day’s predawn hours.
But Shelby County commissioners ended their budget season June 17 with a series of votes that reflected compromises days in the making.
The votes also revealed lingering uncertainties about a set of three massive capital projects the county is attempting to build over the next decade as the county’s debt load on other projects is expected to lighten.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for more than 40 years.
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