The Tennessee Highway safety office said fatalities are down 26% in Shelby County as well. 

The suburbs make up about 32% of the MLGW’s revenue but have no voting power and no vote on rates. 

The council takes the second of three votes Tuesday, May 21, on raising the city’s monthly solid-waste fee and decides six wages disputes between the city administration and labor unions. 

The first phase of the new, comprehensive campus plan would be a $75 million update to the zoo’s Africa exhibit, which was described in zoo documents as “dated.” 

In November, Memphis voters could allow the other residents of Shelby County — who all pay for at least electricity from Memphis Light, Gas and Water — to have a vote on their electric rates. 

Also happening this week: Memphis turns 205, and the Shelby County Commission and Memphis City Council take budget breaks for regularly scheduled meetings.

The City Council Scorecard looks at the April surprise that scuttled plans by Mayor Paul Young for a budget proposal with no property-tax hike.

City Council members talked Thursday, May 16, about at least whittling down the tax hike proposed by Mayor Paul Young, with discussing other revenue sources, during a town hall forum at New Salem Baptist Church in South Memphis.

In the subpoena, the city is seeking any information that Shelby County DA Steve Mulroy’s office passed on information to attorneys for Tyre Nichols’ estate.

Marquavius Williams, 31, and Ontarian Malone, 27, were indicted April 9 on six counts of leaving the scene of an accident and six counts of official misconduct.

Also happening this week: The Memphis City Council and Shelby County Board of Commissioners dive into budgets, and school is out in Lakeland, Bartlett, Arlington and Millington. 

Dr. Scott Morris, a physician and Methodist minister, will step down as CEO of Church Health, the clinic he founded in 1987 that is today the largest faith-based, privately funded health clinic in the United States. 

After his heroic efforts to save 32 people from a capsized excursion boat on the Mississippi River, Tom Lee worked as a city sanitation worker and lived in the Klondike neighborhood.

Area residents should be on the lookout for severe weather Wednesday, May 8. 

The final vote on the joint city-county ordinance came a day after the Shelby County Board of Commissioners approved the same compromise.

The hike in the monthly solid-waste fee was passed on the first of three votes by the Memphis City Council. They heard there could be increases in the fee as they also weigh a property-tax hike.

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Interim Chief C.J. Davis told the Memphis City Council public-safety committee that the department has arrested an undisclosed number of people who attended the block party.

Director Delvin Lane told The Daily Memphian 901 Bloc Squad furloughs have been on and off since January and “went into ... full gear” three weeks ago.

Renee Parker Sekander, a Memphis native, graduated from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Memphis City Council members talked about better camera surveillance and other measures with Memphis Parks Director Nick Walker.

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The administration of Mayor Paul Young wants the council to take the first of three votes Tuesday, May 7, on a $6.98 increase in the solid waste fee. The administration also will outline changes it would make to garbage collection with the increase.

The political roundup reviews Mayor Paul Young’s tax-hike pitch to citizens in Orange Mound. Also Justin J. Pearson on the shaky state of Democratic unity, and Telisa Franklin opens her campaign for the District 96 seat.

With the City of Memphis looking at a proposed 28% property-tax increase and some citizens calling for the government to cut the fat instead, The Daily Memphian reviewed the city’s proposed fiscal year 2025 budget.

Also happening this week: Shelby County Commissioners begin budget talks, and Tom Lee Park reopens temporarily.

The City of Memphis’ proposed capital-improvement budget includes issuing $17.6 million in debt over four years for the amphitheater’s renovation. A potential big-name operator could be interested, too.