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A February exchange of letters between County Mayor Lee Harris and County Commission Chairman Eddie Jones shows there are difficult questions about whether the legislative duties of Commissioner Edmund Ford Jr. should be limited when he hasn’t been charged with a crime.
Last week’s budget retreat by the Shelby County Commission included word of a $27.5 million deficit and calls for the county to come up with a way to replenish its reserves and avoid short-term borrowing.
A variety of community voices spoke out on police reform during two discussions last week.
A $5.8 million contract for a new voting system in Shelby County failed Monday, Oct. 12, in a 6-5 vote by the Shelby County Commission.
Shelby County commissioners will get opinions from the county’s other elected officials as they work through problems with the county’s hiring freeze resolution.
Shelby County officials, who last year approved funding for preliminary work to build a new juvenile detention facility, are now exploring alternatives such as renovating a closed youth facility in Southeast Memphis.
County commissioners vote Monday on a waiver of the county's hiring and pay freeze, and nearly 100 more waivers requested by officials are waiting in the wings. Commissioners say they need a budget book with specific line items and dollar figures to know whether the waivers would put the county in the red.
First-term Republican Commissioner Brandon Morrison became chairman pro tempore of the commission with the votes of six of the eight Democratic commissioners and none of the votes of her four Republican colleagues on the body. While it's controversial, the political move is also a common feature of commission politics.
Some significant amendments to apply the program to private contractors pushed a final vote to July 21.
The Wednesday committee sessions drew most of the 13 commissioners, with the remainder attending online. Also debuting was a partitioned commission chambers with glass barriers between the elected officials and masks worn in the booths created for them.
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.
Shelby County commissioners got within $11 million of rebuilding County Mayor Lee Harris’s consolidated county budget proposal before calling it a day and leaving the rest for a Monday commission meeting.
The County Commission approved CARES Act spending, including a hazard pay stipend for some workers and money for the municipal cities.
The county's $1.4 billion budget is a work in progress, but officials say they're close.
The County Commission has until June 30 to approve a balanced operating budget for the county.
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.
County commissioners discussed, but didn’t vote, on extending the contract with the county's contracted inmate health care provider.
Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris' administration officials answered questions as county commissioners prepare for another review of the fiscal 2021 budget.
Now that Mayor Lee Harris' budget has been rejected, County Commission must craft another one.
Money received from the federal government must be spent on coronavirus expenses and will be shared with the surburban cities as needed.
COVID-19 has changed the Shelby County's fiscal landscape, and responding to that is now the budget priority, county Mayor Lee Harris says.
Shelby County employees would be able to deposit and withdraw paid sick days from a sick leave bank.
With more than two years left to serve in his final term on the Shelby County Commission, Commissioner Reginald Milton has confirmed he will run for general sessions court clerk.
Convicted felon and former state senator John Ford has filed a petition to run for Shelby County General Sessions Court Clerk, but state officials say a judge's order concerning his bribery conviction while in office bars him from running.
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