This Memphis budget season is all about ‘sacred cows’
“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.
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May 2025
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City Council takes first step to rein in Downtown parking garages
The City Council tries to regulate Downtown parking garages and short-term rentals.
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Parking garage plan gets first Council vote
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.
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April 2025
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City Council takes another crack at ‘party houses’
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.
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Memphis Zoo makes big plans as attendance dips
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.
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Downtown parking and liquor stores top City Council agenda
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.
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Memphis City Council: Why does MATA need to buy full-size buses?
“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?”
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No tax hike in Memphis mayor’s budget proposal
Mayor Paul Young’s second budget proposal as mayor trims $30 million in red ink Young says began his budget planning process.
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City Council votes to raise hotel-motel tax
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.
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Memphis City Council to dig more into fake MATA routes
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.
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City budget season opens with uncertainty
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.
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March 2025
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City floats a raft of riverfront improvements
Could recreational uses come back to McKellar Lake? Or a dock of paddle boats in the Wolf River Harbor?
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City Council questions truck yard, approves Wolf River-area cleanup
The City Council also approved a task force Tuesday, March 25, to make recommendations on how to deal with Wolf River bottomland that, for decades, has been an illegal dumping site and a popular area for off-road vehicles.
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Memphis City Council votes on permits for on-street parking
If 75% of the property owners in a defined area sign a petition, parking on their streets would be allowed only with a $50 permit with some exemptions.
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Memphis City Council gives final approval to xAI land deal
The Memphis City Council voted again Tuesday to approve a land sale for Elon Musk’s xAI to build a wastewater facility in Southwest Memphis.
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City Council sets early start to budget season in return from spring break
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City Council sets early start to budget season in return from spring break
The council also voted on a slate of ordinances, including a $300 fee to go with the tax bill of owners of blighted properties the city has to clean up.
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City Council approves land sale to xAI
The company’s first effort to buy the land,which would be used for a water recycling facility, was derailed by council skepticism in early February.
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Memphis City Council approves $80M in cash for arena renovations
The renovations to FedExForum and a second long-term lease for the Memphis Grizzlies inched closer to reality Tuesday.
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After 17 years in elected office, Edmund Ford Jr. is at a crossroads
The Shelby County commissioner faces federal bribery and tax-evasion charges as he nears the end of his second term on the Board of Commissioners and after 11 years on the Memphis City Council before that.
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February 2025
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Political Roundup: NYC mayor dropped charges recall Ford Sr. case
Also, U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn goes to the White House with the new FBI director, U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen tracks Trump and the City Council walks the line with Elon Musk.
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Packed City Council agenda includes MATA, Mud Island amphitheater
The Memphis City Council addressed MATA funding, Uptown parking, the Cleveland TIF, a blight fee and whether or not the Mud Island amphitheater is safe to use.
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With $80M almost out the door, what’s next for the Grizzlies lease?
The Memphis City Council voted Tuesday to allocate $80 million in cash — supplied by the state — for repairs to outdated infrastructure at FedExForum and potentially reimburse the Grizzlies for work already done at the publicly owned arena.
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Parking permit, blight fees and redevelopment top busy council agenda
The Memphis City Council will return to the proposed city sale of land to a subsidiary of xAI, and up for a vote Tuesday, Feb. 18, is a $10.5 million budget amendment, including $5 million in emergency funding for MATA.
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Proposed xAI greywater plant faces City Council skepticism
An xAI representative received a mixed reception from the Memphis City Council regarding the company’s plan to buy 13 city-owned acres where it will build the greywater plant.
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City Council delays emergency funding decision for MATA
City Council members said Tuesday they still need a financial accounting of how MATA spent past city funding before a new board was installed in October.
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