‘Moral Budget’ plan would keep city and county property tax rates the same
Cardell Orrin of Stand for Children Tennessee (center) led a coalition of a dozen local nonprofits calling for the city and county property tax rates to stay the same to fund a “moral agenda” of items the groups favor. (Bill Dries/The Daily Memphian)
A coalition of a dozen nonprofit and community organizations are calling for the city and county property tax rates to stay at their current rates to create more funding for public education, public transportation, affordable housing and similar priorities.
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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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