Political Roundup: Budget season on both sides of Main Street Mall, more
Memphis Mayor Paul Young, Memphis City council members Janika White and Edmund Ford Sr., Memphis interim chief financial officer Walter Person and interim chief operating officer Antonio Adams huddle ahead of a vote on the city’s budget. (Samuel Hardiman/The Daily Memphian)
Two Memphis City Council members had a unique perspective on the budget seasons that ended in June, as they had a hand on both sides of the Main Street Mall.
Janika White is an attorney for the Shelby County Board of Commissioners. Jerri Green is a senior policy adviser to Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris.
Both were deeply involved the City Council’s budget process and in watching the Commission make similar decisions. And for each, their role in the city budget process was partially informed by the county process.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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