There are 43 article(s) tagged Kemp Conrad:

• July 2019

  • Lemonade and mopeds frame re-election summer for City Council

    Three of the 13 council members are term-limited. The other 10 each face potential challengers in the summer campaigns on their way to the Oct. 3 election day.

    By Bill Dries July 03, 2019

• June 2019

  • Council delays Graceland vote, warns EPE against changing terms

    Memphis City Council members delayed a vote Tuesday setting up Tourism Development Zone funding to partially finance an $80 million expansion of Graceland.

    By Bill Dries June 18, 2019

  • Budget votes breeze through City Council, Beale Street cover charge extended

    The City Council stuck with a compromise 4% pay raise for police and firefighters and kept the city property tax rate at $3.19, but also extended a controversial cover charge for Beale Street on summer weekends. 

    By Bill Dries June 05, 2019

• May 2019

  • Council sides with police and fire unions in pay raise impasses

    The Memphis City Council has tentatively approved a bigger raise for police and firefighters than the 3 percent Mayor Jim Strickland proposed for public safety employees.

    By Bill Dries May 22, 2019

• April 2019

  • Budget talks could include looking at bigger pay hike for non-public safety city workers

    City council members start budget hearings next month and there are still a few more details to come about how much revenue the council will have as it considers amendments or changes in Mayor Jim Strickland's proposal.

    By Bill Dries April 18, 2019

  • Strickland budget plan, Graceland development agreement on Tuesday council agenda

    Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland takes a budget proposal to the City Council Tuesday that has a stable city property tax rate and pay raises for city employees. Council members also will consider a development agreement between the city and Graceland as part of a busy agenda. 

    By Bill Dries April 16, 2019

  • Council discusses strategy on possible changes in TVA relationship

    The Memphis City Council also delayed votes once again Tuesday on the first reading of the Memphis 3.0 plan and an agreement between the city and Graceland on Graceland expansion plans.

    By Bill Dries April 02, 2019

• March 2019

  • Conrad says look for new city strategy on homelessness

    Memphis City Council Chairman Kemp Conrad says the three-year goal of ending "street homelessness" could include a city shelter.

    By Bill Dries March 29, 2019

  • Politics Podcast: City Council chairman Kemp Conrad

    Memphis City Council chairman Kemp Conrad talks about who MLGW buys electric power from and the city election season on The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast.

    By Natalie Van Gundy March 28, 2019

  • Local elected officials, fitness center owners urge state to repeal ‘gym’ tax

    Memphis and Shelby County elected officials and fitness center owners are urging state legislators to repeal the amusement tax or “gym tax,” a 10 percent hike on fitness centers across the state.

    By Omer Yusuf March 06, 2019

  • Memphis 3.0 plan draws more questions than reviews in first council discussion

    Memphis City Council members looked for a quick bottom line in the Memphis 3.0 plan during their first discussion of the 400-page proposal Tuesday.

    By Bill Dries March 06, 2019

  • Council moves deeper into consideration of MLGW changes

    Memphis City Council members are to meet with TVA officials in Chattanooga to talk more about changes at MLGW. Meanwhile, there is discussion of other possible changes at the utility.

    By Bill Dries March 01, 2019

• February 2019

  • Fourth Strickland budget plan marks shift in recovery of city finances

    An early look at Mayor Jim Strickland's still forming budget proposal to come in April shows in 2026 the city will be paying $40 million less in debt. Meanwhile, the budget plan will mark the city's final of five installments toward an annual pension liability payment estimated at around $78 million going forward.

    By Bill Dries February 27, 2019

  • Council rules change draft ruffles feathers anew

    Memphis City Council members are reviewing changes to their rules after the two-month stalemate in filling three open council seats. And some of the proposed changes are prompting renewed debate.

    By Bill Dries February 10, 2019

• January 2019

  • Strickland proposes catalyst for development outside Downtown and Midtown

    Breaking the city's development boom outside of Downtown and Midtown is the goal Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland outlined Monday in his election year state of the city address -- a difficult goal shared by Strickland's predecessor in the mayor's office.

    By Bill Dries January 30, 2019

• December 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

• November 2018

  • Video: ‘Commercial Real Estate’ seminar highlights

    The Daily Memphian’s Commercial Real Estate seminar featured Andy Cates, CEO and president of Brokerage Services for Colliers International; Blake Pera, vice chairman for ARA Newmark Memphis Multi-Family Office; Kemp Conrad, principal for Cushman & Wakefield/Commercial Advisors; Shawn Massey, partner of the Shopping Center Group; and Chance Carlisle, COO for the Carlisle Corporation.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff November 09, 2018

• September 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