This Memphis budget season is all about ‘sacred cows’
Memphis City Council members Chase Carlisle (left) and JB Smiley Jr. (right) attend a mayor-council retreat March 1, 2024. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
In the past two days, Chase Carlisle has repeatedly said the same two words: “sacred cows.”
He’s invoked the holy bovines in a message to his fellow Memphis City Council members: know what you want to hold onto because cuts could be coming this budget season.
The City of Memphis has issues with both its current and upcoming budgets. The city’s fiscal year 2025 ends June 30 with the new fiscal year 2026 starting July 1.
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Samuel Hardiman
Samuel Hardiman is an enterprise and investigative reporter who focuses on local government and politics. He began his journalism career at the Tulsa World in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he covered business and, later, K-12 education. Hardiman came to Memphis in 2018 to join the Memphis Business Journal, covering government and economic development. He then served as the Memphis Commercial Appeal’s city hall reporter and later joined The Daily Memphian in 2023. His current work focuses on Elon Musk’s xAI, regional energy needs and how Memphis and Shelby County government spend taxpayer dollars.
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