There are 37 article(s) tagged residency rule:

• November 2024

  • Nepotism, residency concerns arise in Millington mayor race

    Millington Alderman Larry Dagen and Cary Vaughn, chairman of the Shelby County Republican Party, are facing off for the seat.

    By Abigail Warren November 06, 2024

• May 2023

  • Bonner, Turner can run for Memphis mayor

    The two mayoral candidates, neither of whom have lived in Memphis for two years, and the City Council argued that a 1996 referendum repealed residency requirements.

    By Samuel Hardiman, Bill Dries May 18, 2023

  • Memphis City Council considers taking stand on mayor’s race

    Some council members claim they came to a “consensus” about entering the lawsuit at a closed May 2 meeting with their attorney without taking a formal vote on it.

    By Bill Dries May 15, 2023

  • Mayoral residency lawsuit narrows to city council and administration

    The Shelby County Election Commission is about to be dropped entirely from the lawsuits over how long mayoral candidates have to live in the city. 

    By Bill Dries May 09, 2023

• April 2023

  • Strickland won’t testify in mayoral residency suit

    Meanwhile, some city council members are calling in city chief legal officer Jennifer Sink to take a stand on what the residency requirement is for those running for mayor.

    By Bill Dries April 25, 2023

  • Election Commission subpoenas Strickland in mayoral residency suit

    The city administration has declined to take a side on whether it believes the five-year residency requirement is in effect. That puts the city between the Election Commission, which wants some kind of court ruling on what the requirement is, and two mayoral candidates whose attorneys say they will pursue who raised the residency issue in the first place.

    By Samuel Hardiman, Bill Dries April 19, 2023

  • May 1 hearing date set for city mayor residency legal dispute

    Attorneys for the Shelby County Election Commission also renewed a motion to dismiss the residency lawsuit. And a notice that the commission would enforce a five-year residency requirement has been removed from its website.

    By Bill Dries April 07, 2023

• March 2023

  • Political Roundup: Elections warm up with residency challenge, People’s Convention, council races

    The lawsuits over the five-year residency rule in the mayor’s race get their first court hearing Friday. Meanwhile, four of the mayoral contenders show up for a People’s Convention gathering at LeMoyne-Owen College and council candidates Meggan Kiel and Pearl Walker kick off their bids.

    By Bill Dries March 28, 2023

  • Turner files second mayoral residency requirement challenge

    Turner’s lawsuit is likely to be combined with a similar challenge of the five-year residency requirement filed Monday by Sheriff Floyd Bonner.

    By Bill Dries March 17, 2023

  • The city’s residency requirement to dominate the race for Memphis mayor

    A line added to a page on the Shelby County Election Commission’s website the last day of February has turned this year’s race for Memphis mayor upside down.

    By Bill Dries March 13, 2023

• January 2023

  • Winner of District 86 primary to get jump on appointment

    The County Commission will vote Wednesday on a move to make the primary winner of the District 86 special election the appointee until the uncontested March election results are certified.

    By Bill Dries January 23, 2023

• November 2022

  • Must mayoral candidates live in the city? Depends on who you ask

    There are city residency questions surrounding two of the six declared contenders to succeed Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland. Here’s a summary of legal opinions fueling the controversy.

    By Bill Dries November 28, 2022

  • New opinion says Memphis mayoral candidates need not live in city

    Attorney Allan Wade — in a legal opinion from last week made public Wednesday, Nov. 9 — said a 1996 amendment to the city charter makes living in the city a qualification to hold the office, not run for the office.

    By Bill Dries November 09, 2022

  • Memphis mayoral candidates face residency issues after federal court ruling

    A challenge to a six-month residency rule by a Mason, Tennessee, mayoral candidate came with a ruling last month that could revive a five-year residency requirement in the Memphis mayoral race.

    By Bill Dries November 02, 2022

• October 2022

  • Bonner: ‘I have no issues with moving back into the city’ if he runs for mayor

    Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner, who currently lives in Bartlett, says he will decide this month on a bid for Memphis Mayor on the October 2023 city ballot. 

    By Bill Dries October 13, 2022

• 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