County Commission has major decisions to get budget and tax rate across finish line
Shelby County Commissioner Charlie Caswell proposed raising the property-tax rate by 6 cents. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
Adding more funding to county reserves is competing with a scaled-down lawsuit settlement, more spending and a basic tax rate that has been reduced by the state for the new fiscal year.
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Shelby County Commission 2026 budget Shante Avant Michael Whaley Charlie Caswell Audrey Tipton Lee Harris Floyd BonnerBill 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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