Memphis City Council to weigh $3,000 bonus for city retirees
Memphis Mayor Paul Young’s proposal for a one-time bonus for city retirees would cost $16.8 million. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
The council also gets an update on the Memphis Area Transit Authority, finalizes city charter change amendments for the Nov. 5 ballot, and votes on a Whataburger restaurant on Union Avenue.
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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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