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Grants for distressed businesses also got a share of the funding after a council debate. And the council mediated a call by a restaurant owner to MLGW to work out payment plans with the industry.
Among other things, the CARES Act eliminated the 10% early withdrawal penalty for individuals under the age of 59½. But one-third of any money withdrawn will be included as income on taxes for each of the next three years
The city is in a race with the calendar to spend its federal funding within the next two weeks or send it back to D.C.
The CME Church has dropped plans to turn its historic, long-vacant Collins Chapel Connectional Hospital property into a skilled nursing facility. Now the church plans to lease the space to Room in the Inn, which will provide shelter, meals and some medical care to the homeless.
Thanks to a $130,000 grant, education classes will continue remotely for inmates at the Shelby County Correctional Center.
The contract stirred the political embers of a recent budget season in county government as well as some spirited debate among commissioners about mask requirements.
A pair of city meetings, the Lakeland Board of Commissioners, and Metropolitan Planning and Design Review Commission, deliver approvals for several development projects including town homes in The Lake District mixed-use development near I-40 and Canada Road
An Airport Improvement Program grant announced Tuesday, Sept. 1, would provide $23 million this year and another $41.5 million subject to future appropriations over the next two years.
Germantown aldermen adopted a budget and flat tax rate Monday evening. The budget totals more than $157 million.
Our scorecard of commission votes includes a possible swap of some CARES Act funding as well as the first rejection of a move to get past county government's hiring freeze.
Shelby County Commissioners want to try a swap out of federal CARES Act funding similar to one city council members did a week ago. But tensions left over from a rough county budget season that ended in June are hanging around.
It's been a month since a county government budget was approved for the fiscal year that began July 1. But until that detailed budget is printed in black and white, there is still some wrangling underway, some distrust and the hiring freeze the county imposed may be melting.
The spending plan or budget was reconstructed several times in bargaining and changes in federal rules for how the grants could be used. Along the way, there was talk of animals moving out of the zoo and how to fund laptops and tablets for Shelby County Schools students.
The state is doling out $81 million in grants to K-12 schools, colleges and universities to prepare for a safe reopening this August in the COVID-19 climate.
The Lee Administration is paying an accounting firm $250,000 to help it properly spend more than $7 billion in federal funds by Dec. 30, the deadline for using CARES Act money connected to COVID-19 expenses.
With the new flexibility measures in place, bonuses, hazard pay and pay for furloughed employees can be included in payroll expenses as well as taxes withheld from employees’ paychecks.
Tennessee reported 5,676 new unemployment claims from the Memphis area in week ending May 30, for total of 97,696 since COVID-19 began causing massive layoffs and business closings.
Two challenges against Tennessee’s absentee voting law are scheduled for Wednesday, June 3, in Davidson County Chancery Court.
COVID-19 pushed the April unemployment rates in Memphis and Shelby County to 14.3% and 12.9%, respectively, but those rates remained below the statewide and national averages of 14.7%.
Memphis International Airport passenger traffic fell 95% in April and appeared to start rebounding in May, while cargo activity strengthened during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The testing money would come from the city's $113.6 million allocation of federal CARES Act funding. Strickland's proposal, presented Tuesday to the Memphis City Council, also includes an immediate $2.7 million to beef up health department contact tracing and long-term city funding of the health department beyond that.
The expansion is the first allotment of nearly $50 million in federal CARES Act funding for Shelby County government and goes to the Shelby County Commission approval. County Mayor Lee Harris already has a plan for the rest of the money outside of the health department.
Cohen said Congress being in session is the kind of gathering that experts on the coronavirus urge the public to avoid.
James D. "Jimmy" Edwards died on Oct. 23, 2018. This week, a $1,200 stimulus check arrived in the mail for the late Memphian.
Strickland says the city's $113.6 million federal CARES Act grant cannot be used to make up for revenue losses to the city as things stand now, causing a $40 million dip into the city's $78 million reserve fund without raising taxes, laying off employees or raising salaries for city employees.
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