City Council to take final vote on gun control, discuss $10 million budget moves
The Memphis City Council will take a final vote on a gun-control ordinance to codify referendums Memphis voters approved last year. (John Minchillo/AP Photo file)
Most of the budget amendment would come from city reserves and includes $5 million for the Memphis Area Transit Authority.
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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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