Last council meeting of year features final vote on residency
Memphis sanitation workers Roy Britt (left) and Mario Norman pick up garbage and some yard waste in the High Point Terrace area on April 10. The City Council may revisit the proposed fee hike on solid waste. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)
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.
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