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The housing will provide a home for four ex-offenders who are participating in the Shelby County Office of Re-Entry’s FOCUSED program, an 11-week training program that combines job readiness with the opportunity for selection into vocational training programs.
The June 28 Shelby County Commission session saw an attempt to bring back to life bonuses some elected countywide officials proposed three weeks ago.
Harold Collins served two terms on the City Council, leaving in 2015 to run for Memphis mayor in a challenge of incumbent Mayor A C Wharton.
William “Bill” R. Hughes was one of the first Black Shelby County Sheriff’s deputies and the first African American superintendent of the Shelby County Penal Farm.
The county administration is working with a national coalition of local elected leaders to question the efficacy fines and fees in the local criminal justice system. Among the first changes, was dropping a fee for medical services at the county corrections center.
Perkins, who served in county government for more than two decades, died over the weekend.
Shelby County had announced plans to assess a $25 per pay period surcharge against county employees who did not get vaccinated for COVID by a July deadline.
Shelby County government employees would have until April to get vaccinated or pay a $25 per pay period surcharge starting in July under the notice sent to county employees Tuesday, Nov. 2.
Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris said rising economic and mental stress levels in the community resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic made this the right time to pursue this new policy.
On The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast, Shelby County Chief Information Officer Sandra Perry talks about the lasting impact and the security challenges of work-at-home government services and what happens when one part of county government wants its own computer system and network.
The County Trustee’s office is the exception, staying open for the last week of county tax filing season. Some county employees will be working from home if possible as the administration decides on a day-to-day basis when to open the buildings.
With $500,000 in federal grant money, the small-scale pilot includes electric vehicle chargers as well as a broader reconsideration of how county government makes the decision of which vehicles to purchase.
Klondike-Smokey City residents will ultimately determine what happens to the lots its community development corporation was put in charge of Friday.
The neighborhood cleanup is part of Shelby County's proposal to bring sanitation services to the area.
Shelby County officials presented their plan to provide garbage collection service for Northaven residents at a community meeting Tuesday night.
The University of Memphis will receive $1 million from Shelby County government under a resolution approved by the County Commission Monday that does not include any mandates for when it will pay all university employees $15 an hour.
Lee Harris wants the University of Memphis to give a timeline for when its lowest-paid workers will be paid $15 an hour as part of the release of $1 million budgeted for the university to update its swim facility.
Shelby County Register of Deeds Shelandra Ford has informed county officials that she has run out of room and will stop storing records in 30 days.
A Shelby County Commission committee is being asked to approve a task force that would address the devaluation of real estate in Orange Mound.
Recycling, energy conservation and other green initiatives at the Shelby County Correctional Center have gained the facility national recognition from an accreditation organization.
The plan would cost Northaven residents about $27 a month and would achieve a county goal to eliminate illegal dumping in that part of Shelby County.
Shelby County Commissioners may not approve the plan by County Mayor Lee Harris to charge a countywide sustainability fee to fund public transportation, but Commission Chairman Mark Billingsley said Harris has forced the community to talk about funding the Memphis Area Transit Authority.
Shelby County opened the county’s second veterans services office at Millington City Hall Monday. There are 55,000 veterans living in Shelby County, more than any other county in Tennessee.
Movers and shakers at the weekly lunch meeting of the Frayser Exchange Club questioned Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris Thursday about his plan to help fund the Memphis Area Transit Authority through a proposed $145 sustainability fee for addresses with three vehicles.
A proposal by Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris to fund Memphis Area Transit Authority improvements, largely through a $145 per vehicle sustainability fee, isn't popular with some bus riders.