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The commission takes up the budget again Monday, June 22, at its regular meeting, a week after voting to use $16.5 million in the county reserves to balance expenditures and revenues. But since then, questions have emerged about the changes the commission made.
The six-hour special meeting Monday sets the stage for a final budget vote in a week. But there are questions about the dollar figures approved by the Commission and how much red ink there is to be dealt with after the moves. Two social media posts during the meeting by County Mayor Lee Harris also complained that there would be layoffs and cutbacks in critical county programs.
The county's $1.4 billion budget is a work in progress, but officials say they're close.
The commission calculated cuts and additions to the $1.4 billion budget, which must be approved by June 30.
Budget committee Chairman Eddie Jones and Vice Chairman Edmund Ford Jr. presented the proposal. Work on the budget resumes in a special committee meeting Monday before the full Shelby County Commission session.
Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris' administration officials answered questions as county commissioners prepare for another review of the fiscal 2021 budget.
Differences from years ago between Shelby County Commissioner Edmund Ford Jr. and County Mayor Lee Harris have carried over into the county's 2021 budget talks.
Shelby County's proposed budget for fiscal 2021 includes $13.5 million in cuts and prioritizes COVID-19 necessities.
Up to 30 people who have been tested for COVID-19 at Christ Community Health Services have seen their results delayed, including County Commissioner Tami Sawyer.
Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris says in an exclusive interview with The Daily Memphian that he would not have gone with a Memphis In May delegation to Ghana had he had any idea of how quickly the coronavirus pandemic would explode.
The labor union official says the ordinance that allows some public safety workers to live outside the county is not "morally or fiscally responsible."
Amending the county's residency requirements for public safety workers is intended to help with hiring and retention.
If approved, an amended ordinance would let public safety workers live outside of Shelby County, but they would pay $2,500 in "residency compensation."
The funds for transit would be allocated through the 2022-23 fiscal year, according to the ordinance.
Shelby County Commissioners wonder what to do with $2.5 million for MATA that has not been used.
Extended funding for transit was approved by the Shelby County Commission in an ordinance on second reading that gives it 1.5% of county's CIP budget.
An ordinance that would put the question of residency requirements for employees to Shelby County voters failed in committee Wednesday.
Commission committees will be asked to consider raising the wheel tax by $20 to fund MATA.
A former EPA official told Shelby County commissioners Wednesday the county can fight pollution by investing in public transportation.
On Oct. 3, we voted in a half percent sales tax increase, raising our sales tax to nearly 10%. The police and fire unions campaigned to get the issue on the ballot, promising to restore benefits cut in 2014, but other city employees would be cut out of the tax increase windfall.
Shelby County Commissioners Edmund Ford Jr. and Van Turner discuss the possible impacts of the passing of a sales tax increase by referendum in the recent Memphis city elections with Bill Dries, reporter for The Daily Memphian, and host Eric Barnes.
Shelby County Commission Chairman Mark Billingsley has asked the county attorney for an opinion on a plan for the county to get its "fair share" of the city's newly approved sales tax increase. Meanwhile, Commissioner Edmund Ford now has questions for Memphis city government.
Shelby County Commissioner Edmund Ford Jr. says, according to one legal opinion, a referendum for county government to claim half the city revenue from the half-cent sales tax increase would be a vote among citizens in unincorporated Shelby County.
Shelby County Commissioner Edmund Ford Jr. says if a sales tax increase referendum passes in Memphis, the County Commission should go after the county's “fair share” of the funds.
The "Pledge for Progress" is a promise on the priorities five council contenders would have if elected to the body, including a possible change to 13 single-member districts. Meanwhile, council Chairman Kemp Conrad and county commissioner Edmund Ford Jr. are the first public opponents of the sales tax hike ballot question on the Oct. 3 ballot.