City Council goes to the maps in redistricting for special race
Workers have been replacing the marble trim around windows on the upper floor of City Hall for several months now. The City Council votes on $7 million in funding for the work at the Tuesday, Aug. 23, council session. (Bill Dries/Daily Memphian)
The council sets the district lines for the Nov. 8 ballot special election in council District 4. Meanwhile, the council plans to appoint someone to the seat in the interim to serve until the special election winner is certified.
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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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