City spends most of remaining CARES Act money on personnel
City Council member Jeff Warren (right), seen here in March, said the city was ready to fund contract tracing, but “we couldn’t pull it off politically.” (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)
The city is in a race with the calendar to spend its federal funding within the next two weeks or send it back to D.C.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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