How your solid waste fee ballooned to $30 a month
Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland proposed raising the solid waste fee in 2019 by $7.16 under the premise the city would not raise the fee for the next decade. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)
Here is the history behind the city’s solid waste fee and how it compares to what the city’s new private contractor for Area E is being paid and what the previous contractor was being paid.
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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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