City Council urges early voting expansion in county primaries
In addition to the voting-expansion resolution, Council action included the Liberty Park contract, more time for Parkside at Shelby Farms and the end of the latest consolidation push.
Topic: police residency referendum
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April 2022
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City Council takes up One Beale debt, Soulsville TIF and Northside PILOT
The economic development items are part of a council agenda that could see the formal end of a city-county consolidation bid and the end of council discussion of police and fire residency requirements.
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January 2022
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City Council delays police residency vote until April
City Council members have delayed the first reading on a police residency referendum until April to see if the Tennessee General Assembly passes a law banning such residency requirements for public safety employees statewide.
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Police residency returns to first council agenda of 2022
Between the vocal debate on police residency at its last meeting in 2021 and the Tuesday, Jan. 4, session, Police Chief C.J. Davis has come out in a Daily Memphian op-ed in favor of a broader residency requirement for police.
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Neighborhood leaders oppose proposed gas station in Binghampton
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December 2021
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City Council Scorecard: Second chances
The last council scorecard of 2021 looks at two decisions that will likely be on the first scorecard tracking critical city council votes in 2022.
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City Council delays first of three votes on police residency referendum
The delay came after some council members opposed to the ballot question pushed for a separate vote on first reading Tuesday, Dec. 21.
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City Council to take first vote on police residency
The first-reading vote to put the item on the August 2022 ballot comes at the last council meeting of 2021.
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Council debates police residency as new vote looms
Most council members abstained or didn’t vote Monday in a test vote on the new proposal to allow Memphis Police officers to live outside the county ,but within a 50-mile radius.
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Council session has police, fire residency on agenda
Memphis City Council members talk about a new bid to allow police officers and firefighters to live outside Shelby County at a special committee session Monday, Dec. 6.
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November 2021
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Behind The Headlines: Strickland on crime
On “Behind The Headlines,” Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland says he hopes a city charter change on police residency is revived and put back on a ballot for a vote soon.
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