County leaders contemplate budget red ink
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.
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December 2020
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November 2020
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Discussions spur dialogue for change
A variety of community voices spoke out on police reform during two discussions last week.
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October 2020
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County Commission rejects contract for voting system
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.
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September 2020
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Committee fails to act on Shelby County’s hiring freeze revisions
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.
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August 2020
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Plans for new youth detention center up in air amid talk of renovation
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.
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County budget still fuzzy seven weeks into new fiscal year
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.
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July 2020
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County Commission Scorecard: The Race for Number Two
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.
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Jones elected new County Commission chairman
Shelby County Commissioner Eddie Jones will move from the number two spot on the commission to the chairman’s job next month. -
County ‘Ban the Box’ proposal for ex-offenders gets more complicated
Some significant amendments to apply the program to private contractors pushed a final vote to July 21.
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County Commission continues budget reckoning at first in-person meeting since March
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.
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June 2020
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Road to new county budget remains rocky and uncertain
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.
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County Commission goes long again on complex budget fix
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.
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May 2020
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Coronavirus hazard pay coming for some Shelby County employees
The County Commission approved CARES Act spending, including a hazard pay stipend for some workers and money for the municipal cities.
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Still no budget yet for Shelby County government
The county's $1.4 billion budget is a work in progress, but officials say they're close.
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County Commission tries once again to solidify the budget
The County Commission has until June 30 to approve a balanced operating budget for the county.
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Budget committee leaders find millions to cut in next year’s Shelby County budget
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.
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Contract extensions for Wellpath don’t sit well with Shelby County
County commissioners discussed, but didn’t vote, on extending the contract with the county's contracted inmate health care provider.
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Shelby County government retreat gives clearer picture about county’s budget
Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris' administration officials answered questions as county commissioners prepare for another review of the fiscal 2021 budget.
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Budget discussion stalls, will continue at retreat
Now that Mayor Lee Harris' budget has been rejected, County Commission must craft another one.
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April 2020
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Shelby County gets $50M in federal stimulus for coronavirus expenses
Money received from the federal government must be spent on coronavirus expenses and will be shared with the surburban cities as needed.
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Harris says budget preview will outline challenges
COVID-19 has changed the Shelby County's fiscal landscape, and responding to that is now the budget priority, county Mayor Lee Harris says.
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Proposed sick leave bank for Shelby County employees approved by commission committee
Shelby County employees would be able to deposit and withdraw paid sick days from a sick leave bank.
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November 2019
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Shelby County Commissioner Reginald Milton to join race for general sessions clerk
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.
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John Ford’s candidacy for general sessions court clerk is a no-go, state officials say
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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Eddie Jones files for General Sessions Court Clerk on 2020 ballot
Within days of General Sessions Court Clerk Ed Stanton telling his staff he would not seek re-election, one county commissioner has filed a petition for the clerk’s job.
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