City budget vision still blurry as first federal funds arrive

By , Daily Memphian Updated: June 02, 2021 8:44 AM CT | Published: June 01, 2021 7:04 PM CT

The council approved Tuesday, June 1, accepting $80.5 million in federal American Rescue Plan Act funding -- the first of two payments to come from Washington for pandemic relief. But there are still questions and uncertainties about how the money can be used.

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2021 budget season Memphis City Council American Rescue Plan Act broadband

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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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