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The commission votes on a resolution that asks County Clerk Wanda Halbert to cooperate with the regular audit of county finances. Auditors say Halbert isn’t cooperating as a Dec. 31 by state law nears.
Also in the roundup: Amber Huett-Garcia opens Commission campaign, Marie Feagins’ bid for county mayor and Steve Cohen on a successor.
While the Memphis Safe Task Force has had some impact on the county’s finances, the county is typically in this situation each year.
The Memphis-Shelby County Schools board is formally mulling a lawsuit about the “threat to the lawful function and democratic integrity” caused by new state and county actions that cut short terms for five members.
The County Commission ultimately extended benefits for a severely injured Shelby County sheriff’s deputy.
The “interfund tax anticipation note” solves the short-term cash-flow problem for county government. But long-term financial concerns around county reserves remain.
Shelby County Commissioners’ enactment of the new state law is an “imminent threat to the lawful function and democratic integrity” of the board and district, according to a resolution sponsored by board Vice Chair Joyce Dorse Coleman.
The county administration blames the shortfall on the Memphis Safe Task Force and federal government shutdown.
The nonbinding resolution is the third the Shelby County Commission has considered to suggest alternatives to the National Guard.
The Shelby County Commission voted to override Mayor Lee Harris’ veto of their original decision to make the school board change, meaning five MSCS school board members will see their terms cut short.
Overriding a veto: The Shelby County Commission will vote on moving races for all nine Memphis-Shelby County Schools board seats to the 2026 ballot after Mayor Lee Harris’ veto of their September decision.
“Absent an emergency or in the case of criminal misconduct, I do not believe the terms of elected officials should be shortened. As such, I hereby veto,” Harris wrote.
The campaign season, with its new partisan battles, could also include a legal challenge from incumbent board members.
Commissioners also began to talk Monday, Oct. 6, about the county’s other financial problem that prompted the Tennessee comptroller to bar approval of any new bonds for the next year.
After much debate, the commission failed to pass any resolution on the National Guard. Discussion moved on to a new jail, grants and the county reserves.
The vote effectively shortens the four-year terms of office that five school board members were elected to in 2024.
Shelby County commissioners will weigh in on the coming of National Guard troops to Memphis. Commissioners also return to the question of a new jail and moving Memphis school board elections.
County Commissioners got their first look at two resolutions offering different responses to the coming deployment of National Guard troops to the city.
Wesley Wright won’t run for Shelby County Commission, but is still eligible for either Lakeland commissioner or mayor under the suburb’s two-term limit for Board of Commission members.
The Shelby County Commission has approved a resolution that rules out the New Chicago area of North Memphis from being the site of any new jail county government may decide to build.
After a motion to move all board elections to the 2026 ballot failed on a tie vote, the commission voted to try again in two weeks on a proposal for the 2030 ballot.
The vote came after harsh words were exchanged between Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris and Commissioner Edmund Ford Jr.
The Shelby County Commission is scheduled to vote on cutting short the terms of some Memphis-Shelby County Schools board members and a new jail resolution that would rule out the old Firestone plant site.
The Memphis Zoo is expanding its program to offer free admission on Tuesdays year-round.
The Shelby County Commission has an amended plan to seek proposals on where and how to build a new jail. The detailed process was pushed Monday, Aug. 25, to a Sept. 3 committee meeting for more discussion.