There are 60 article(s) tagged Shelby County Clerk:

• July 2022

  • Car dealers call for state takeover of license plates, tags distribution

    A poll of dealers in the Greater Memphis Automobile Dealers Association showed their backlog of tags at more than 7,400 with some applied for as far back as April.

    By Bill Dries July 06, 2022

• June 2022

  • County Commission Scorecard: New voting machines, raises over bonuses and license-plate postage

    The County Commission Scorecard tracks the votes on the end of the budget season and several unrelated longstanding controversies the commission got off its plate in a marathon June 6 meeting.

    By Bill Dries June 16, 2022

  • County approves money to mail license plates, tags

    The clerk’s office has been late in mailing the plates and stickers for most of this year, with complaints increasing.

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    County Commission approves budget specifics in marathon session

    By Bill Dries June 07, 2022

• April 2022

  • Northside and Soulsville tax incentives move to County Commission

    The commission agenda also includes a call on County Clerk Wanda Halbert for a corrective plan to clear up some problems in a recent audit of her office’s financial statements.

    By Bill Dries April 11, 2022

  • Bureaucratic traffic jam backs up new car tags and license plates

    The Daily Memphian readers chime in to share their experiences, which sometimes involve mail delivery issues. But County Clerk Wanda Halbert says there are other problems within county government. 

    By Bill Dries April 03, 2022

• October 2021

  • Halbert wants county audit after state finds no evidence of fraud or misuse

    The county clerk is appealing for a county audit of how her office is funded a week after the Tennessee Comptroller ended a similar investigation, saying he found no evidence of fraud and that revenue in Halbert’s office was going where it was supposed to go.

    By Bill Dries October 07, 2021

  • Comptroller’s office finds no fraud in use of clerk’s fees

    Halbert began complaining about the issue soon after she took office in 2018, resulting in the state investigation.

    By Bill Dries October 02, 2021

• May 2021

  • County clerk’s data processing fee could go up

    The commission is trying to come up with $659,000 in funding for salaries and wages in the clerk’s office without taking the money from county reserves.

    By Bill Dries May 10, 2021

• September 2020

  • Shelby County Clerk’s office leaving Germantown space

    When the county’s lease originally ended in January, the clerk’s office was not ready to leave, so the lease was extended four months. When the pandemic hit, more time was given.

    By Abigail Warren September 03, 2020

• June 2020

  • County Clerk’s offices to reopen after a COVID case shut them down

    Clerk Wanda Halbert says the seven locations will operate differently. They'll have appointments, and people will wait in their cars before being called into the office. Halbert warns there could be long lines and few employees at the counter until social distancing partitions are installed. The one-week shutdown was the second for the office since the global pandemic was declared in mid-March.

    By Bill Dries June 26, 2020