There are 40 article(s) tagged Berlin Boyd:

• December 2018

  • City Council’s 3 empty seats take center stage

    The Memphis City Council has three empty council seats to fill Tuesday. And if the 10 council members can’t break the gridlock that has delayed the appointment to the first of those vacancies, there will be more calls for special elections to fill all three.

    By Bill Dries December 18, 2018

  • City Council calls six a quorum, as four hire attorney

    Six Memphis City Council members on Tuesday, Dec. 11, approved 39 resolutions from the delayed Dec. 4 agenda as the four members not present sent their lawyer to the special session at City Hall.

    By Bill Dries December 12, 2018

  • City Council gives quorum call another try Tuesday

    Within minutes of each other and just a few yards apart at City Hall last week, council members Joe Brown and Berlin Boyd each told reporters the vacant and hotly contested council District 1 seat is “the people’s seat.”

    By Bill Dries December 11, 2018

  • Week ends without City Council quorum as District 1 stalemate continues

    On the fourth consecutive day of what Memphis City Council chairman Berlin Boyd calls “the situation,” the council again could not muster a quorum of seven members to transact business.

    By Bill Dries December 07, 2018

  • City Council tries again to break appointment deadlock

    Memphis City Council members resume Tuesday their attempt to fill one of three vacancies on the 13-member body.

    By Bill Dries December 03, 2018

  • Council Confidential

    Just before his last meeting on Nov. 20 as a Memphis City Council member, Edmund Ford Jr. was feeling good about his 11-year tenure at City Hall.

    By Bill Dries December 03, 2018

• November 2018

  • Boyd says deals, partisanship, race are factors in council standoff

    Memphis City Council chairman Berlin Boyd says the council was on its way to a partisan and racial divide when it tried to appoint someone to fill the vacant District 1 seat last week.

    By Bill Dries November 30, 2018

  • City Council’s District 1 deadlock spawns theories

    The Memphis City Council’s deadlock over filling a vacancy on the body began to read like a political whodunit, even while the council was in the process Tuesday of taking more than 100 votes on the appointment. The usual suspects of race, political power and political deals were all mentioned and hinted at during the standoff between council members backing Raleigh Community Development Corp. executive director Rhonda Logan and Flinn Broadcasting sales manager Lonnie Treadaway.

    By Bill Dries November 22, 2018

  • City Council vote marathon ends without council appointment

    Memphis City Council members took more than 100 separate votes on an interim council member Tuesday in a meeting that stretched past midnight before chairman Berlin Boyd recessed the meeting and the decision until the Dec. 4 council session.

    By Bill Dries November 21, 2018

• October 2018

  • Economic development overhaul proposal takes shape

    A group working on changes to the local approach to economic development is recommending a larger role for the Greater Memphis Chamber.

    By Bill Dries October 30, 2018

  • Council funds ‘public information campaign’ on referendums

    Memphis City Council members voted Tuesday to use the council’s government affairs account to fund a “public information campaign” on the three city charter amendment referendums on the Nov. 6 ballot.

    By Bill Dries October 23, 2018

  • City panel begins closer look at economic development fees

    The city committee trying to build a better way of pursuing economic development will meet later this month with the two organizations that play the major roles in the existing system – the Greater Memphis Chamber and the Economic Development Growth Engine.

    By Bill Dries October 19, 2018

• September 2018

  • City working group looks for direction on EDGE

    The city’s working group on economic development is about to compare notes on the attributes of a “perfect” economic development organization.

    By Bill Dries September 27, 2018

  • Airways Middle School zoning change leads with billboard

    Few items to be voted on at City Hall kindle controversy like the prospect of a new billboard. The controversy usually pits council members who see billboards as blight and oppose any proliferation of them against members who see them as a money-maker for property owners who lease their land for billboard use.

    By Bill Dries September 20, 2018

  • Cost of traffic fines, fees limiting opportunities for thousands of Memphians

    About 18,000 times each year, the state of Tennessee suspends the driver’s license of a Shelby County resident for failure to pay traffic fines and fees, according to data obtained by the nonprofit advocacy organization Just City. A disproportionate number of those drivers are black, making the fines a social justice issue, said Just City executive director Josh Spickler.

    By Yolanda Jones September 17, 2018