There are 32 article(s) tagged Shelby County Commission Scorecard:

• August 2025

  • Ups, downs and votes on a new County Commission chair

    It took one vote to elect the new County Commission chair and four to elect the chair pro tempore. In between was the usual commission intrigue and grievances.

    By Bill Dries August 14, 2025

• March 2025

  • Commission Scorecard: An inside look at voting on Regional One, MSCS

    The Shelby County Board of Commissioners stands by its decision to cap county funding for Regional One Health’s new campus, and it looks to a forensic audit of Memphis-Shelby County Schools.

    By Bill Dries March 12, 2025

• June 2024

  • County Commission Scorecard: The making of the county budget

    The Commission Scorecard tracks votes on keeping a stable property tax rate and returning funding to more than 400 vacant positions in the Sheriff’s Department. It also includes dollar figures on the county’s three major capital projects.

    By Bill Dries June 30, 2024

• March 2024

  • County Commission Scorecard: death of a data dashboard and more

    The first County Commission Scorecard of 2024 also includes commission votes on large utility-scale solar farms along with pay raises in the Shelby County District Attorney General’s Office.

    By Bill Dries March 31, 2024

• November 2023

  • County Commission Scorecard: The new chair, committee assignments and police reform

    The County Commission Scorecard catches up to a trio of police-reform ordinances — two approved and a third falling one vote short. Also, the 10 rounds of balloting to elect a new leader demonstrated ongoing divisions on the commission.

    By Bill Dries November 09, 2023

• May 2023

  • County Commission Scorecard: Filling in the budget blanks

    The commission scorecard tracks critical votes so far to fill in the blanks on a resolution that could raise the county’s wheel tax and an ordinance that could drop the county’s property tax rate.

    By Bill Dries May 11, 2023

• January 2023

  • Top 5 County Commission votes of 2022

    These five decisions in 2022 topped a review of the Shelby County Commission’s most crucial votes as chronicled by The Daily Memphian’s Commission Scorecard.

    By Bill Dries January 08, 2023

• December 2022

  • County Commission Scorecard: Germantown schools deal, Klondike TIF and state House vacancy

    The Shelby County Commission Scorecard calls the roll and explains the importance of the last major votes of 2022, including the county’s part in the deal that moved control of three Germantown schools from one system to another.

    By Bill Dries December 30, 2022

• November 2022

  • County Commission Scorecard: Ethics change, new school board member and the clerk’s office

    The Commission Scorecard covers October votes on a change to county ethics rules, filling a vacancy on the MSCS board, Election Commission funding and the new commission’s relationship with County Clerk Wanda Halbert.

    By Bill Dries November 11, 2022

• October 2022

  • County Commission Scorecard: Early indicators from the new commission

    The Commission Scorecard looks at critical votes and decisions at the Sept. 26 meeting, including a second grant this year for Choices: Memphis Center for Reproductive Health and appointing four new judicial commissioners.

    By Bill Dries October 03, 2022

• September 2022

  • County Commission Scorecard: Settling an old score in a new term

    The Commission Scorecard tracks votes on an attempt to change who investigates ethics complaints and selection of a new chairman and chairman pro tempore at the first meeting of the term.

    By Bill Dries September 19, 2022

  • County Commission Scorecard: Funding Regional One and an ouster move

    The Commission Scorecard tracks a trio of important decisions made at the end of the term of the commission that left office at the end of August. All three could be on the plate of the new commission.

    By Bill Dries September 07, 2022

• August 2022

  • County Commission Scorecard: End-of-term goals

    The Shelby County Commission votes on the problems in the County Clerk’s office, a $350 million commitment to rebuilding Regional One Health and the return of pay raises and bonuses for a consecutive year in county government.

    By Bill Dries August 16, 2022

• July 2022

  • County Commission Scorecard: The elusive final decision; balancing schools with Regional One

    The Commission Scorecard looks at a series of votes on a longer discussion about finding enough capital funding over several years for new schools construction as well as Regional One Health.

    By Bill Dries July 02, 2022

• June 2022

  • County Commission Scorecard: New voting machines, raises over bonuses and license-plate postage

    The County Commission Scorecard tracks the votes on the end of the budget season and several unrelated longstanding controversies the commission got off its plate in a marathon June 6 meeting.

    By Bill Dries June 16, 2022

• March 2022

  • County Commission Scorecard: The making of a new school board member

    The County Commission Scorecard chronicles the three rounds of votes that made Charles Everett of Westwood the newest Memphis-Shelby County Schools board member representing District 6.

    By Bill Dries March 28, 2022

• December 2021

  • County Commission Scorecard: The pay raise votes

    The County Commission Scorecard looks at the second- reading vote on pay raises for some of the county’s top elected officials and the political perils of raising your own pay while preparing to run for re-election.

    By Bill Dries December 13, 2021

• August 2021

  • County Commission Scorecard: Crossing party lines and a new chairman

    The Commission Scorecard also looks at a possible compromise to the stand-off over a new voting system that may be beyond reach.

    By Bill Dries August 04, 2021

• May 2021

  • County Commission Scorecard: Moving ordinances without a majority

    One of two measures examined on the County Commission Scorecard didn’t get any yes votes but advanced because of commission rules. The other is part of the Byhalia Connection Pipeline controversy. Each proposal is a political work in progress so far.

    By Bill Dries May 19, 2021

• March 2021

  • County Commission Scorecard: Crossing the partisan divide

    The County Commission Scorecard tracks votes on a piece of legislation in Nashville that would change the way county commissioners are elected and final approval of a share of county contracts for locally owned small businesses.

    By Bill Dries March 14, 2021

• February 2021

  • County Commission Scorecard: The two-way split and death by lack of second

    The County Commission Scorecard looks at the big picture of a lingering contract for managing court cases and a complex amendment to a county purchasing goal for locally owned businesses that came to an abrupt end.

    By Bill Dries February 24, 2021

  • County Commission Scorecard: Vaccinating teachers, budget prep, bigger mail

    The County Commission Scorecard takes a look at votes from the Feb. 8 session. 

    By Bill Dries February 12, 2021

• January 2021

  • Shelby County Commission Scorecard: Police militarization, Trump honors, Capitol insurrection

    The County Commission Scorecard tracks how a seven-month-old police reform proposal moved from being one vote short of the seven necessary for final approval to 10 votes across party lines this week. 

    By Bill Dries January 27, 2021

• December 2020

  • 5 critical votes by the Shelby County Commission

    From an ongoing budget battle to police reform and new voting machines, these are five critical votes by the Shelby County Commission in 2020 as chronicled in The Daily Memphian’s County Commission Scorecard.

    By Bill Dries December 31, 2020

  • County Commission Scorecard: Pandemic maneuvers and keeping police reform alive

    The last County Commission meeting of the year included important decisions on governing in a pandemic, with a path to nine votes through compromise and the fine print of the newest health department directive.

    By Bill Dries December 24, 2020