There are 28 article(s) tagged County Commission Scorecard:

• December 2024

  • Budget, balancing and timing: The top County Commission votes of 2024

    The top votes by the Shelby County Commission in 2024 revolved around the budget season and balancing funding for big projects.

    By Bill Dries December 30, 2024

• December 2023

  • Wheel-tax hike, Wanda Halbert top list of 2023’s County Commission votes

    A $25 wheel-tax hike tops the annual list of significant votes by the Shelby County Commission. The vote had a ripple effect on the 13-member body from electing a new chair to a special prosecutor investigating County Clerk Wanda Halbert.

    By Bill Dries December 27, 2023

• July 2023

  • County Commission Scorecard: Resurrecting and passing the wheel-tax hike

    The Shelby County Commission Scorecard follows the complex four-month path of the $25 wheel-tax hike, with a mix of the roll call votes and developments outside commission meetings that shaped the compromise.

    By Bill Dries July 02, 2023

• March 2023

  • County Commission Scorecard: Wanda Halbert’s adviser and reparations

    The Daily Memphian’s County Commission Scorecard looks at the Feb. 22 commission meeting that was moved and covered two controversial topics, racial reparations and a special adviser for County Clerk Wanda Halbert.

    By Bill Dries March 14, 2023

• February 2023

  • County Commission Scorecard: Tyre Nichols, green fleet goals and more

    This Commission Scorecard covers calls at the Feb. 6 meeting for police reform in the wake of the death of Tyre Nichols and the political clash with protesters and activists who pushed for more than resolutions.

    By Bill Dries February 14, 2023

• June 2022

  • County Commission Scorecard: Round property tax rate up or down?

    The Shelby County Commission Scorecard tracks how the commission votes went at the May 23 session on two key parts of the 2022 county budget season.

    By Bill Dries June 01, 2022

• May 2022

  • County Commission Scorecard: Bare quorum returns from spring break

    The County Commission Scorecard tracks commission votes on rounding the county property tax rate up or down, a fee for waiving the county residency requirement and whether to fill a vacant state House seat representing part of the city.

    By Bill Dries May 18, 2022

• April 2022

  • County Commission Scorecard: FedExForum, detention center, MATA and residency

    The Scorecard attempts the math on the new FedExForum deal keeping the Grizzlies at the Forum and on the renovated Shelby Training Center that is to become the new juvenile detention center with more funding from the county.

    By Bill Dries April 17, 2022

• March 2022

  • County Commission Scorecard: Appointing a new state senator

    The County Commission Scorecard explores the rough road to seven votes.

    By Bill Dries March 10, 2022

• February 2022

  • County Commission Scorecard: COVID tests, CHOICES playground and Juvenile Court

    The County Commission Scorecard finds basic ideological differences remain on the 13-member body, as it moves into the home stretch of its four-year term.

    By Bill Dries February 03, 2022

• January 2022

  • County Commission Scorecard: Top 5 Votes of 2021

     The top five include property taxes, redistricting, pay raises, a takeback on critical race theory and the strategic battle for a new commission chairman.

    By Bill Dries January 06, 2022

  • County Commission Scorecard: Pay raise compromise and Tom Lee Park funding

    The Shelby County Commission Scorecard tracks the votes at the final meeting of 2021 that approved pay raises for the commission, county mayor and sheriff. Also approved: Giving $6.7 million toward the redesign of Tom Lee Park.

    By Bill Dries January 01, 2022

• November 2021

  • County Commission Scorecard: Pay raises and district lines

    The County Commission Scorecard finds a lot of commissioners on the fence for now when it comes to raising the pay of the sheriff and mayor. The scorecard also chronicles the final series of votes on new district lines for the commission going into the 2022 elections.

    By Bill Dries November 21, 2021

• October 2021

  • County Commission Scorecard: Early indicators of 2022 county election issues

    The County Commission Scorecard highlights the commission’s choice of a new judicial commissioner and a call for U.S. Justice Department review of Juvenile Court and possibly a return to the federal oversight of the court that ended three years ago.

    By Bill Dries October 07, 2021

• September 2021

  • County Commission Scorecard: Missing votes, fixing ethics and a bonus vote

    The Commission Scorecard recaps critical votes at the Aug. 23 meeting and an overtime vote at a special Aug. 30 session. The special meeting may have been the last word on bonuses for county employees. But it is far from the last word on the underlying issue that drew out the final vote across two meetings in one week.

    By Bill Dries September 10, 2021

• August 2021

  • County Commission Scorecard: New action overrides mayor’s earlier veto

    The commission scorecard focuses on a rare veto by the county mayor and the County Commission’s vote earlier this month to override that veto. It’s another chapter in a contentious political saga as the commission enters the last year of its current four-year term of office.

    By Bill Dries August 22, 2021

• July 2021

  • County Commission Scorecard: The tax rate votes

    The County Commission Scorecard tracks the second in a series of votes on a county property tax rate. But the votes probably don’t close out the county’s budget season with four of the 13 commissioners absent.

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    County property tax hike stirs opposing commission views

    By Bill Dries July 03, 2021

• June 2021

  • County Commission Scorecard: The County Budget Votes

    The County Commission Scorecard tracks the critical votes on county government’s various budgets during the June 7 session that, for the most part, ended the budget season.

    By Bill Dries June 13, 2021

  • County Commission Scorecard: The votes to raise property taxes

    Our scorecard of critical Shelby County Commission votes tracks the set of votes this week that led to the approval of a one-cent increase in the recertified county property tax rate. The votes were more complex than usual with some parliamentary drama that almost brings down the curtain on another county budget season.

    By Bill Dries June 10, 2021

• May 2021

  • County Commission Scorecard: Part of a penny and voting as Governor is signing

    The commission scorecard looks at smooth sailing for the county budget season past the money left on the table from part of a penny, and why the commission’s resolution on the state’s critical race theory ban still matters.

    By Bill Dries May 31, 2021

• April 2021

  • County Commission Scorecard: Reappraisal test vote and Wellpath deja vu

    The Daily Memphian Scorecard on important commission votes reveals the votes are close for now when it comes to the idea of a property reappraisal for taxation purposes every other year. And it shows commissioners willing to give one more chance to resolve a long-running contract controversy.

    By Bill Dries April 22, 2021

• March 2021

  • County Commission Scorecard: Split verdict on pipeline indicators

    The County Commission Scorecard looks at two pipeline-related resolutions voted down by the commission. One could return for reconsideration. The other could change the specific route of the pipeline through southwest Memphis.

    By Bill Dries March 27, 2021

• January 2021

  • County Commission Scorecard: Cash Policy and the Pandemic Divide

    The Daily Memphian tracking of significant County Commission votes marks the first meeting of the year with more than a few looks down the road to the spring budget season.

    By Bill Dries January 13, 2021

• October 2020

  • County Commission Scorecard: 2nd Reading of Police Reform Measures

    The set of four ordinances cleared second reading this week on the Shelby County Commission with some shifts in votes and declarations since first reading. The third and final vote is in two weeks.

    By Bill Dries October 01, 2020

• August 2020

  • County Commission Scorecard: Defender’s office do-over, firefighters hired

    The latest edition of our scorecard looks at several moves in the hiring freeze and what the rejection of a convenience store on East Holmes Road could mean for similar businesses in the rest of the county.

    By Bill Dries August 27, 2020