There are 22 article(s) tagged residency rule:

• March 2021

  • Opinion: With ‘historic crime,’ let’s end the foolishness and let police live where they want

    “Crime reduction is clearly a complex conversation.”

    By Daniel Chatham March 11, 2021

  • Council Scorecard: An appeal to Nashville, the Health Department’s reckoning and an empty skyscraper

    The Daily Memphian City Council Scorecard tracks three council decisions this week on major issues including what to do with the 100 North Main Building, a state law that would allow police and firefighters to live outside Shelby County and how, or if, to judge the Health Department as the city takes over vaccine distribution.

    By Bill Dries March 04, 2021

  • Council members make case for exempting city from state residency bill

    Council member J.B. Smiley argues that if the city accepts police and fire applications from outside the city, more effort will have to be put into screening candidates.

    By Bill Dries March 02, 2021

• January 2021

  • Kelsey bill would eliminate residency requirements statewide for police and fire

    The bill follows a City Council decision late last year to remove a referendum question that would have allowed Memphis police and firefighters to live outside Shelby County.

    By Bill Dries January 06, 2021

• February 2020

  • Shelby County can change residency without referendum

    If the proposed ordinance passes, it would eliminate the residency requirement for public safety employees hired between April 1, 2020, until April 1, 2024. 

    By Omer Yusuf February 11, 2020

  • City Council returns to topic of MLGW-TVA relationship

    The city council takes another look Tuesday at the relationship between Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division and the Tennessee Valley Authority. And the residency issue for city employees is back as well.

    By Bill Dries February 04, 2020

• January 2020

  • Behind the Headlines Podcast: Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner

    Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner discusses challenges in recruiting, plans for a new juvenile detention center, highway shootings and more with host Eric Barnes and Bill Dries with the Daily Memphian.

    By WKNO January 31, 2020

  • Bonner offers alternative on residency requirement for deputies

    The Shelby County sheriff is suggesting a more specific residency requirement, with limits, than the one that failed on first reading Monday before the Shelby County Commission.

    By Bill Dries January 31, 2020

  • The Early Word: A sanitation strike, Sunday service and 616 sold

    Good morning, all. It’s Thursday, Jan. 23, and we're talking FedEx's strategy, bipartisanship at its best, and how one group likes to swoop in and bring old restaurants back to life. 

    By Mary Cashiola January 23, 2020

  • Jones to attempt removing residency referendum from November ballot

    The ballot question on broader residency for Memphis fire and police officers was approved by the council that left office at the end of December. During council committee discussions Tuesday, some of the six new members who joined the council this month had a chance to weigh in on the matter.

    By Bill Dries January 21, 2020

  • Council to discuss pulling residency referendum from November ballot

    The discussion over the residency item is another indication of new thoughts on a city council with six new members. The second council meeting of the year also features more discussion and a possible vote on an electric rate increase from Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division and possible funding for Mayor Jim Strickland's Public Service Corps.

    By Bill Dries January 21, 2020

• December 2019

  • Last council meeting of year features final vote on residency

    The City Council could also Tuesday revisit its decision two weeks ago to reject a solid waste fee hike. Mayor Jim Strickland said no fee hike could lead to laying off sanitation workers and scaling back garbage pickups of curbside trash. The combination with the MLGW rate hike proposal could cause the council to do either/or but not both.

    By Bill Dries December 17, 2019

• November 2019

  • Smiley emerges from campaign to new role as one of 13 on new City Council

    On The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast, incoming City Council member J.B. Smiley Jr. said he would like to have a voice in the current council's decision about residency requirements. But he said he accepts if the referendum on the matter is approved by the current council before members leave office. He also said concerns about reliability if MLGW breaks ties with TVA might be a "scare tactic."

    By Bill Dries November 22, 2019

  • Residency proposal changes, new members at City Council

    The council approved a November 2020 referendum on a residency requirement for police and fire fighters Tuesday on the first of three votes. 

    By Bill Dries November 21, 2019

  • MPD Director: Residency requirement must change to help with recruitment

    Memphis Police Director Michael Rallings says a residency requirement for officers is hurting recruitment efforts by his department, and he wants voters to decide the matter. 

    By Yolanda Jones November 18, 2019

  • Conrad prepares to show new council members the ropes, pushes for residency vote

    On The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast, outgoing council Chairman Kemp Conrad discusses Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division rate hikes and a recent visit to Hungary. 

    By Bill Dries November 15, 2019

  • Council trying to check off various items as terms approach end

    With three meetings left in the four-year term of office of city council members, and at least four new council members coming January, the council is lining up several items for action by the end of 2019. 

    By Bill Dries November 05, 2019

  • City Council weighs end-of-term decisions versus matters for new council

    The City Council gets its first detailed look Tuesday at a Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division rate hike proposal and talks with Mayor Jim Strickland about next steps in restoring benefits to police and firefighters. 

    By Bill Dries November 05, 2019

• October 2019

  • City Council debates residency requirement for police, fire

    Memphis City Council members appear divided on the idea of hiring police officers and firefighters from outside Shelby County.

    By Bill Dries October 15, 2019

  • Residency issue has been recurring for 16 years at City Hall

    At their first session since the Oct. 3 city election day, city council members take up a familiar issue -- residency requirements. A new proposal would allow police and fire brass to hire outside Shelby County if voters approve it in a November 2020 referendum. It would be the third residency referendum in 16 years.

    By Bill Dries October 15, 2019

  • Council to review police, firefighter residency requirements

    Council members discuss the "two-hour drive" proposal during Tuesday committee sessions. Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland says he backs the measure.

    By Bill Dries October 12, 2019

• January 2019

  • Midtown liquor store owners confident after date with SCOTUS

    Doug and Mary Ketchum, owners of Kimbrough Fine Wine & Spirits in Midtown Memphis, took their fight for a Tennessee retail liquor license to the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday.

    By Wayne Risher January 17, 2019