City Council lets veto of impasse ordinance. Now the rewrite begins.
The Memphis City Council let stand Mayor Paul Young’s veto of the impasse ordinance. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
An ad hoc group will now work on another rewrite to overhaul the 48-year-old procedure for resolving impasses between the city administration and labor unions.
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Memphis City Council Impasse Procedure 2026 budget Michalyn Easter-Thomas Andrew Brown Janika White Paul Young JB Smiley Jr. Memphis Public Works Division Scott Morgan Walter Person Memphis Safe Task Force MPD overtime Frayser Boulevard Sunny ChowBill Dries on demand
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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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