Masked City Council members meet warily in person for budget talks
City Council members met in person at City Hall Monday, May 3, for the first time since mid-March 2020. Quarters were tight in the council’s fifth-floor committee room and masks were the rule. (Daily Memphian/Bill Dries)
A budget committee meeting Monday, May 3, drew 12 of the 13 council members together at City Hall for the first time since mid-March of 2020. The in-person meetings continue Tuesday with a full slate of committee meetings before the 3:30 p.m. session of the council.
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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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