City Council asserts independence from mayor on several fronts
Memphis City Council member JB Smiley Jr., left, proposed an ordinance Tuesday specifically asserting the council’s right to hire its own staff and expand its office space as well as possibly operate its own website as needed. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
The council is challenging the administration on the delayed development that is a key part of financing the remake of the Fairgrounds to Liberty Park and what it sees as hesitation in an expansion of the council’s office space at City Hall.
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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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