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District 1 City Councilman Sherman Greer comes from a political background of detailed constituent services and keeping an eye on the Tennessee Legislature as he prepares to run for a full four-year term on the council.
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.
Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland’s fourth budget proposal, totaling $709 million, includes an Affordable Housing Trust Fund to accelerate the development of new and rehabbed multifamily and single-family housing.
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.
The City Council is scheduled Tuesday to take the first of three votes on the Memphis 3.0 plan and to vote on the agreement between the city administration and Graceland for further expansion of Graceland’s Whitehaven campus.
Memphis City Council Chairman Kemp Conrad says the three-year goal of ending "street homelessness" could include a city shelter.
Memphis City Council members met Tuesday in Chattanooga with Tennessee Valley Authority officials.
Despite the high hopes of some for the proposed Memphis 3.0 land use and development plan, there are some basic concerns and some criticism about how the land use and development guidelines will be used.
Memphis City Council member Joe Brown is running for City Court clerk.
The political battle over MLGW rates and calls for upgrades in the utility's infrastructure shows every sign of returning for another budget year.
The council also delayed the first of three votes on the Memphis 3.0 land use and development guidelines and approved the Poplar Arts Lofts project. And the council got a first hand look at the FedEx "same day bot" to be tested on Memphis streets this summer.
A Graceland master plan that does not include an arena tops Tuesday's Memphis City Council agenda. Also on the agenda is the Poplar Arts Lofts project and a discussion about urban art.
Memphis City Council member Berlin Boyd has amended his disclosure to include his job with FedEx Logistics on a form dated last week on the council's website.
Former Memphis City Schools board member Jeff Warren is running for a super district council seat, citing his experience as a family physician and as a school board member as terms were set for the merger of public education in Shelby County.
Council member Berlin Boyd has worked for FedEx Logistics for seven months, taking in the time the FedEx division decided to relocate Downtown at Boyd's urging.
Former Memphis City Schools board member Jeff Warren discusses his return to the political arena in a bid for the Memphis City Council.
Explore Bike Share has picked up funding from Memphis-based FedEx, $150,000 over three years; and Memphis, $75,000 a year for four years, from fees on Bird and Lime.
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.
The city and Graceland appear to have an agreement that allows the Graceland master plan to move ahead in some form beyond litigation over an arena that has been a part of the plan.
A review of the Memphis 3.0 plan tops Tuesday's City Council agenda, along with new residential development in Cooper-Young and a neighborhood near the Fairgrounds.
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.
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.
The Shelby County Commission is expected Monday to appoint a new member to the board of Shelby County Schools to serve until August 2020.
MLGW president and CEO J.T. Young says the utility will talk with some alternate electric providers as it weighs a long-range examination of ending or altering its 80-year relationship with TVA.
Shelby County Chancellor JoeDae Jenkins said he'll rule Monday, Feb. 25, on a city motion to dismiss a Sheraton bid to block public incentives for a Loews hotel in Downtown Memphis.