City Council starts budget ‘Super Bowl’ at convention center
Memphis City Council member JB Smiley listens on during a May 1, 2021 retreat at the Renasant Convention Center. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
The retreat Saturday, May 1, marks the first in-person council meeting in more than a year. It included new details of $16 million in bonuses to city employees in Mayor Jim Strickland’s $716 million budget proposal and a flap over whether team-building exercises and a tour of the Renasant Convention Center were open to reporters.
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