There are 59 article(s) tagged City Council Scorecard:

• December 2024

  • Taxes, guns, cops and schools: The top City Council votes of 2024

    Here’s a review of some of the major decisions the Memphis City Council made in 2024, including tax hikes, gun referendums and more.

    By Bill Dries December 30, 2024

• July 2024

  • City Council Scorecard: The making of the city budget and a 49-cent tax hike

    The City Council Scorecard tracks the key council votes, which last month raised the city property tax rate for the first time in 12 years and raised the monthly solid waste fee as well as the city vehicle registration fee. 

    By Bill Dries July 06, 2024

• May 2024

  • City Council Scorecard: the road to a 75-cent property-tax hike proposal

    The City Council Scorecard looks at the April surprise that scuttled plans by Mayor Paul Young for a budget proposal with no property-tax hike.

    By Bill Dries May 21, 2024

• April 2024

  • City Council Scorecard: the first veto, health insurance extension and salaries

    The first Memphis City Council Scorecard of the body’s term of office finds the council cleaning up a few leftover matters and examines the vote that didn’t happen on a North Memphis biomass facility.

    By Bill Dries April 01, 2024

• December 2023

  • A look back at the major decisions by this term’s City Council members

    The four-year term of the Memphis City Council is at an end. The Daily Memphian’s Council Scorecard has chronicled 158 critical decisions by the body over that term. Here are the most critical decisions ones.

    By Bill Dries December 27, 2023

  • Council Scorecard: MLGW rate hike, stadium deal, council health benefits

    The last City Council Scorecard of the year includes a pay raise for the new mayor, another ballot question for 2024 and several items for the new council to decide.

    By Bill Dries December 26, 2023

• June 2023

  • Memphis City Council Scorecard: How a redistricting plan died

    The Daily Memphian’s City Council Scorecard looks at how a significant change in council district lines ahead of the October city elections came to an abrupt halt earlier this month. 

    By Bill Dries June 21, 2023

• May 2023

  • City Council Scorecard: Changing the city court clerk and tabling residency

    The council scorecard looks at two key votes at the May 16 council session, both on issues connected to the October Memphis ballot.

    By Bill Dries May 30, 2023

  • City Council Scorecard: Traffic stop ban, redistricting and residency

    The City Council has two ongoing political potboilers: the residency requirement to seek a citywide office and moving City Council district lines.

    By Bill Dries May 09, 2023

• March 2023

  • City Council Scorecard: Not-so-final votes on Tyre Nichols ordinances

    The Council Scorecard tracks final votes on a set of five ordinances with a vote one other one delayed. 

    By Bill Dries March 18, 2023

• February 2023

  • City Council Scorecard: Tracking the latest police reform proposals

    The Council Scorecard looks at a set of two resolutions and six ordinances the Memphis City Council approved at its Feb. 7 meeting. 

    By Bill Dries February 15, 2023

• January 2023

  • Top 5 City Council votes of 2022

    The Memphis City Council Scorecard puts votes on proposals to change how city leaders are elected and votes on public financing of a convention center hotel at the top of key votes in 2022.

    By Bill Dries January 08, 2023

• December 2022

  • City Council Scorecard: End of the year unanimity and a punt to 2023

    The last Memphis City Council Scorecard of 2022 finds the 13-member body unanimous on Klondike revitalization and a tourism surcharge for the city’s convention center hotel. A negotiated settlement of the damage deposit for Memphis In May’s use of the redesigned Tom Lee Park is another matter for another year.

    By Bill Dries December 30, 2022

• November 2022

  • City Council Scorecard: Changes at the top and pulling MLGW closer to City Hall

    Thecouncil scorecard looks at the moves of city chief operating officer Doug McGowen to head Memphis Light Gas and Water Division and Chandell Ryan to the number two post at City Hall as well as a primer on both positions.

    By Bill Dries November 13, 2022

• September 2022

  • City Council Scorecard: New face, runoff reprise and One Beale deal

    The scorecard looks at two special meetings this month that filled an open council seat, shut down another city charter change ballot question and approved a compromise on One Beale.

    By Bill Dries September 12, 2022

• August 2022

  • City Council Scorecard: Scrap city primaries, OK One Beale backstop resolution

    The City Council Scorecard tracks the council votes that killed a bid for city primaries and sent a One Beale financial backstop to the mayor’s office even though the mayor says he won’t act on it.

    By Bill Dries August 25, 2022

• June 2022

  • City Council Scorecard: MATA’s long haul, death of a car lot and the fine print of term limits

    The latest edition of the Council Scorecard features a number of unanimous votes.

    By Bill Dries June 30, 2022

  • City Council Scorecard: Primary strategy, Trump’s escort and Environmental Court

    The City Council Scorecard examines a vote on a resolution to deny former President Donald Trump a police escort to his Saturday appearance in Southaven, Mississippi. 

    By Bill Dries June 15, 2022

  • City Council Scorecard: Term limits maneuvers

    The City Council Scorecard follows the maneuvering as the council puts a ballot question on the August ballot that might look familiar to Memphis voters.

    By Bill Dries June 03, 2022

• May 2022

  • City Council Scorecard: Keeping a quorum, term limits and city primaries

    The City Council Scorecard tracks the latest moves on proposed August ballot questions that would extend term limits for council members and introduce city primary elections if approved by voters.

    By Bill Dries May 17, 2022

• April 2022

  • City Council Scorecard: Term limits, city primaries, Southwind, more

    This City Council Scorecard tracks first votes on a three-term limit for the council and partisan city elections, along with a Southwind apartment complex that stirred some de-annexation resentment.

    By Bill Dries April 28, 2022

• March 2022

  • City Council Scorecard: Party lines, residency majority holds and a new code

    This edition of the council scorecard catches up to a council vote on President Biden’s Supreme Court nominee, another chapter in the police residency debate and rewriting the city code of ordinances for the first time in 37 years.

    By Bill Dries March 22, 2022

• January 2022

  • City Council Scorecard: Vote pumps brakes for Broad Ave. gas station

    The City Council Scorecard looks at how the votes lined up on the second rejection in three months for a convenience store with gas pumps at Broad Avenue and Tillman Street.

    By Bill Dries January 28, 2022

  • City Council Scorecard: How to lose an appointment

    The first Council Scorecard of the new year chronicles a rare defeat of an appointment from the city court clerk’s office and a few notes about the start of the second half of the current council’s four-year term.

    By Bill Dries January 11, 2022

  • City Council Scorecard: The five most critical decisions of 2021

    The top five votes by the Memphis City Council include what happened after a crude oil pipeline plan was withdrawn and the council’s do-over on the work toward a possible MLGW split from TVA. 

    By Bill Dries January 09, 2022