Sales tax hike proposal has enough signatures to go on October ballot
Danny Todd (right), district vice president of the International Association of Fire Fighters, brings boxes of signed referendum petitions to City Hall alongside Allen Adams (center) and Terry Gilbert (left) on Jan. 14, 2019. The police and fire unions are pushing for a half-cent city sales tax hike to restore health care and retirement benefits cut in 2014. (Houston Cofield/Daily Memphian file)
The Shelby County Election Commission will vote Thursday afternoon on adding a sales tax increase referendum to the Oct. 3 Memphis ballot.
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