County officials learn PILOTs won’t raise funds fast enough for MATA
There are things the Shelby County can and can't do to raise $10 million for public transit.
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There are things the Shelby County can and can't do to raise $10 million for public transit.
The question ultimately is not whether we can afford a new facility but whether we can afford not to have one.
Shelby County officials toured the old Shelby Training Center as a possible site for new juvenile detention facility.
The Shelby County Community Garden opens in April.
Participants at a Shelby County public transportation ad hoc committee examined a number of ways the county can find dedicated funding for MATA.
Cutting poverty and increasing the financial security of all Americans ought to be a political objective, if not obsession.
A Shelby County Commission ad hoc committee intends to make it harder for county workers to live outside the county.
A public transportation ad hoc committee will try to come up with a way to raise about $9 million in county funds for the Memphis Area Transit Authority.
Fifty young people will be chosen randomly to take part in the work program that will place them in a Shelby County government office, a nonprofit agency or area business.
Kansas City, Missouri, could soon be the first major city to offer free bus service. But Memphis isn't there yet.
Commissioner Willie Brooks, a sponsor of the wheel-tax resolution, said he's willing to find other ways to fund MATA.
A proposed $20 wheel tax increase for MATA funding wasn't voted on Monday by the Shelby County Commission, which will revisit the resolution next week in committee.
Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris discusses MATA funding, the refugee resettlement plan and more with Bill Dries, reporter for The Daily Memphian, and host Eric Barnes.
Members of the committee spent hours hearing from MATA supporters Wednesday and will vote Monday on a $20 wheel tax increase for the transit authority.
MICAH is rallying behind a Shelby County Commission resolution to raise the wheel tax by $20 to increase funding for the Memphis Area Transit Authority.
Commission committees will be asked to consider raising the wheel tax by $20 to fund MATA.
In a letter to the U.S. Department of State, Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris notified federal officials that the county will continue to welcome refugees.
MATA now has free Wi-Fi for riders on buses, MATAplus and the trolleys.
Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris wants to help the state reinstate driver’s licenses, a huge criminal justice issue for about 100,000 county residents.
Funding is in place for a short-term fix for Shelby County's records "catastrophe" and Register of Deeds Shelandra Ford has plans for a long-term solution.
Shelby County Commission Chairman Mark Billingsley thinks the full commission will be able to vote on revised county residency rules for workers by late January.
Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris will present Lifetime Achievement awards to retired Shelby County Environmental Court Judge Larry Potter and departing General Sessions Court Clerk Ed Stanton Jr. during a ceremony Friday at the Walter L. Bailey Jr. Criminal Justice Center.
Shelby County Commission Chairman Mark Billingsley will establish an ad hoc committee to clarify the county's residency requirements for county employees.
MICAH officials on Wednesday offered the Shelby County Commission alternatives that would raise all of the $30 million needed to fully fund the Memphis Area Transit Authority.
An ad hoc committee will dig down into residency requirements for Shelby County employees, ahead of any discussions about ending the requirement entirely.