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One of the three confirmed city directors is in charge of a completely new division to tackle garbage and trash collection. Plus, the City Council approved a bonus for retired city employees.
Mayor Paul Young has tapped a Memphis native who is returning to the city after working similar jobs in Oakland and Pasadena, California.
The City of Memphis could soon have a faster path to the demolition of blighted properties. And neighbors will have a louder voice in calling attention to nuisance properties.
It’s been 12 years since the City of Memphis ended mandatory annual auto inspections, but an effort to weed out counterfeit temporary tags could reverse that decision.
The council also talks Tuesday, June 24, about an MPD plan to install license plate readers along the city’s rights of way of state highways as a crime-fighting measure.
The city also plans on appointing a deputy director of animal services. The city fired former MAS director Ty Coleman last year.
The pay raises and an agreement on MATA funding were the two biggest additions to Mayor Paul Young’s second city budget.
Council member Pearl Walker proposed the amendment that would give all city employees a flat 3% raise across all divisions, superseding the 5% raises the City Council passed in May.
New budget proposal relies on rosy projections, cutting MATA funding in half and extending ongoing hiring freeze.
In a surprise move, the Memphis City Council suspended its rules and voted on raises for solid waste employees, machinists and police officers. But the mayor has warned it could mean cutting 550 positions.
The council also decided Tuesday, May 20, an appeal of a two-lot subdivision planned by one of its members in East Memphis and rejected a truck lot at Shelby Drive and Tchulahoma Road.
The Memphis City Council expressed frustration about the state of Downtown, also pushing to move 201 Poplar and change the state of Beale Street.
The Tuesday council day at City Hall also features a full briefing on a 120-year old brick culvert beneath the fire department’s maintenance shop that is at risk of “catastrophic failure.”
“Over the next 24 months, I don’t know if there will be a more critical time to set the city up for success or failure,” Memphis City Council Budget Chair Chase Carlisle said.
The City Council tries to regulate Downtown parking garages and short-term rentals.
Memphis City Council members take the first of three votes Tuesday, May 6, on a proposal to fine the owners of Downtown parking garages who don’t maintain safety standards and pick up their trash.
Council Chair Ford Canale and Council member Philip Spinosa are working on a proposal they hope will not draw the attention of Airbnb lobbyists in Nashville who undid some of the regulations council members put in place in 2016.
Although the capital and operating funds are separate, the new capital projects are expected to push attendance up, which raises more money for the zoo to operate.
The council hears about a proposal to enforce standards for lighting and cleanliness of Downtown parking garages and votes on a move to extend the life of a temporary Downtown surface parking lot at Beale and Main streets.
“I can’t remember seeing a full bus,” Council member Dr. Jeff Warren said. “If we are not filling those buses up, why are we buying the big buses?”
Mayor Paul Young’s second budget proposal as mayor trims $30 million in red ink Young says began his budget planning process.
The tax increase puts together the last public dollars for a renovation intended to keep the Memphis Grizzlies in the city for the long term.
At its Tuesday, March 18, session, the City Council also takes first votes on the Cleveland Street redevelopment plan and a $300 a year blight fee on owners of abandoned and vacant properties.
Complicating the budget proposal for Memphis Mayor Paul Young is an estimated $7 million hole in revenue because of problems at the Shelby County Clerk’s Office.