Solid waste fee hike possible for Memphis
Memphis sanitation workers Roy Britt (left) and Mario Norman pick up garbage and yard waste in the High Point Terrace area on April 10, 2019. The city currently charges $29.96 per cart as a solid waste fee on monthly Memphis Light, Gas and Water residential utility bills. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian file)
City solid waste services are projected to be about $7 million in the red for the fiscal year that ends June 30.
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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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