There are 59 article(s) tagged City Council Scorecard:

• December 2021

  • City Council Scorecard: Second chances

    The last council scorecard of 2021 looks at two decisions that will likely be on the first scorecard tracking critical city council votes in 2022.

    By Bill Dries December 29, 2021

  • City Council Scorecard: A resurrection at Broad and Tillman

    The City Council Scorecard examines the procedural votes that brought a controversial commercial development project and a key intersection back to life after the council killed the project in November on a tie vote.

    By Bill Dries December 15, 2021

• November 2021

  • City Council Scorecard: End of the pipeline and no gas on Broad

    The Council Scorecard looks at the split decision on the last two of the pipeline ordinances and the end of a delayed plan to add a gas station to a part of Binghampton that already has a lot of gas pumps.

    By Bill Dries November 22, 2021

• October 2021

  • City Council Scorecard: Ad hoc redistricting and higher EDGE wage

    The Council Scorecard tracks two key votes from the Oct. 19 Memphis City Council session — one on how to approach redistricting, another blocking a higher minimum wage to qualify for economic development tax breaks.

    By Bill Dries October 26, 2021

  • City Council Scorecard: Test vote on EDGE incentives

    The Council Scorecard looks at a lopsided council committee vote earlier this month on a new minimum wage for EDGE incentives and the outside events influencing it.

    By Bill Dries October 14, 2021

• August 2021

  • City Council Scorecard: school masking, landmarks districts, coal ash

    The City Council Scorecard looks at recent council votes that don’t seem to pack a political punch but nevertheless call for an attention to detail.

    By Bill Dries August 26, 2021

  • City Council Scorecard: Crushing the Raleigh car lot

    A proposed used-car lot in Raleigh has become symbolic of a much larger change in the council’s consideration of what development goes where and under what conditions.

    By Bill Dries August 11, 2021

• July 2021

  • City Council Scorecard: Car lot challenges unspoken rule

    The council’s discussion last week about a car lot in Raleigh could be about some larger changes in zoning. Normally the representative of a district gets final say on the zoning, but that’s not how this is going.

    By Bill Dries July 13, 2021

• June 2021

  • City Council Scorecard: Tax hike fizzles and monorail funding hits a brick wall

    The scorecard tracks the key votes that closed out the city’s budget season, including cutting off a proposed property tax hike before it got to the floor.

    By Bill Dries June 21, 2021

• May 2021

  • City Council Scorecard: Impasse and Teaching Race

    The City Council Scorecard looks at the constant companion of budget season at City Hall — deciding a contract impasse between the city administration and one of the unions representing city employees. And the council is almost unanimous on the state’s ban on teaching critical race theory.

    By Bill Dries May 24, 2021

  • City Council Scorecard: The new police director’s challenge

    The City Council Scorecard looks at the almost unanimous vote making Cerelyn “C.J.” Davis the new head of MPD. The dissenting votes indicate Davis has cleared one hurdle but faces more to make the words that impressed most of the council match what she does as police chief.

    By Bill Dries May 11, 2021

• April 2021

  • City Council Scorecard: Old motorcycles, pipeline distances and minority business

    The City Council Scorecard focuses on a short-lived plan to give old police motorcycles to Collierville, a first vote on a pipeline measure and qualms about setting a minority business percentage.

    By Bill Dries April 27, 2021

  • City Council Scorecard: Anatomy of a Do-Over

    The City Council Scorecard peels back the layers on the council’s April 6 vote on a $520,000 contract that put the issue of MLGW leaving TVA back on track after six months in limbo. 

    By Bill Dries April 11, 2021

• March 2021

  • City Council Scorecard: Pet problems, same-night minutes and council grants

    The Council Scorecard looks at the surprise that led to the defeat of an ordinance banning retail dog and cat sales in the city and the parliamentary maneuver that means there won’t be any move to reconsider the vote.

    By Bill Dries March 25, 2021

  • Council Scorecard: An appeal to Nashville, the Health Department’s reckoning and an empty skyscraper

    The Daily Memphian City Council Scorecard tracks three council decisions this week on major issues including what to do with the 100 North Main Building, a state law that would allow police and firefighters to live outside Shelby County and how, or if, to judge the Health Department as the city takes over vaccine distribution.

    By Bill Dries March 04, 2021

• February 2021

  • City Council Scorecard: Grants vs. Buses

    The Daily Memphian City Council Scorecard looks at a committee vote this past week on whether to send $2.6 million to the council grants program or the city’s bus system. 

    By Bill Dries February 28, 2021

• January 2021

  • City Council Scorecard: A street closing and a motion to table

    The City Council’s most recent session featured a rare motion to table an item that didn’t have seven votes to pass, at least for now, and a vote to close a street even though the council could very well vote down the development that will follow the street closure.

    By Bill Dries January 30, 2021

  • City Council Scorecard: The business border and slowing down

    The Daily Memphian’s City Council Scorecard opens the new year with two council decisions — one on a familiar issue in council discussions. The other is a close vote on a lower speed limit.

    By Bill Dries January 09, 2021

• December 2020

  • Five significant City Council votes in 2020

    The Daily Memphian City Council Scorecard tracked 48 key council decisions in the current council’s first year in office. These are five significant decisions made that promise to have an impact on what happens in 2021.

    By Bill Dries December 29, 2020

  • City Council Scorecard: Parking money and the 13-way split

    The council approved the financing for a $62 million set of five Downtown parking projects. But the issue was what to do with the money made from the parking garages. 

    By Bill Dries December 18, 2020

  • City Council Scorecard: Masks, decorum, bottled water and lobbying

    The next-to-last council meeting of the year saw some votes change, the simple become complex and the obvious spelled out. There was also a rare slip that saw an item that appeared to fail win approval after all.

    By Bill Dries December 03, 2020

• November 2020

  • City Council Scorecard: Chairman undercurrents, lots of gas

    The Council Scorecard dives deeper into the political winds blowing in what turned into a race for council chairman and the mixed results in a set of proposed convenience stores with gas pumps.

    By Bill Dries November 19, 2020

• October 2020

  • City Council Scorecard: MLGW, TVA and the GDS contract

    Here is how the city council voted Tuesday on the GDS contract — a critical juncture in considering whether MLGW should leave TVA. And a few possible next moves including MLGW doing the consulting work in house or a move to reconsider at the council in two weeks.

    By Bill Dries October 07, 2020

• September 2020

  • City Council Scorecard: Finding the BLM divide and changing Lamar

    The latest edition of our City Council scorecard finds a healthy council majority in favor of changing street names as part of a slate of Black Lives Matter proposals. Plus, the Council held a unanimous vote to begin changing the business streetscape along a stretch of Lamar Avenue.

    By Bill Dries September 09, 2020

• August 2020

  • City Council Scorecard: The veto and the override

    The City Council Scorecard also looks at a police reform measure that fell short of seven votes and failure of Graceland's plan to open a manufacturing plant with a vocational school in Whitehaven.

    By Bill Dries August 19, 2020