The moratorium is to consider requiring county commission approval of solar farms. Also on the Monday, Sept. 11, agenda is the second of three votes on a set of three police reform ordinances.

The product was listed as out-of-stock at all Memphis-area CVS stores, from Midtown to Whitehaven and Germantown and all but one Walgreens at 8046 Macon Road in Cordova.

Next year, MLGW plans to look at the feasibility of utility-owned solar power — the utility’s first step to generate renewable energy locally — and it’s already planning on enough battery storage to power 100,000 homes for four hours during outages. 

States such as Florida have climbed in an annual report on the growth in solar power by region while the net growth of Memphis homes with solar has fluctuated. 

Residential solar systems can generate cheaper energy and be a lifeline when the power goes out, but the systems also have high upfront costs and can be complicated to install. 

The post will have been vacant for more than two years if a new head is not named before Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland leaves office. 

“I think the consistent message from all of us and several others … is that we all recognize that we have a serious crime problem,” DA Mulroy said.

The commission also used some of its opioid settlement money to develop a plan for dealing with the effect of opioid addiction. 

The set of three ordinances were delayed on first reading votes two weeks ago. Meanwhile, Monday’s meeting is the last for Mickell Lowery as chairman of a body that is still working its way through a rift among the nine Democratic members.

The board of the Tennessee Valley Authority, which provides MLGW with electricity, approved a 4.5% rate hike Thursday. The increase will equal about $3.50 more each month for TVA’s 10 million customers across seven states.

Some MLGW customers will get multiple bills in a short period of time.

The Shelby County District Attorney’s Office said it will start releasing “key portions” of video footage from fatal officer-involved shootings before the investigation and review is complete.

Though the numbers are going up, the amount of cases is lower than at previous times during the pandemic, a professor of infectious diseases at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine said.

Chief Deputy Anthony Buckner, 44, has had a 22-year career with SCSO, including time as a school resource officer, gang unit detective and assistant chief deputy. 

Commissioners broke their stalemate Monday, Aug. 14, in the selection of a new chair. 

Shelby County Commissioners also try Monday, Aug. 14, to break the deadlock over the selection of a new chair after two unsuccessful tries since in July.

Even after the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation said Germantown’s water was safe to drink, Protect Our Aquifer’s science director Scott Schoefernacker and his family have opted not to.

Severe weather started Wednesday and continued into Thursday morning with heavy rainfall, gusts of wind up to 55 miles per hour and a brief tornado watch. 

Jones, elected last August, has been disciplined for writing character letters for defendants in a Florida wire fraud case.

The move to primaries in what are now nonpartisan races began in response to book and curriculum topic bannings in Florida. 

The special Monday, Aug. 7, meeting was short of a quorum that’s needed to take any action. 

Democratic commissioner Miska Clay Bibbs was one vote short of the seven votes needed to become the new chairwoman during nine rounds of voting at the July 17 commission meeting. Three of the 9 Democrats abstained in a rift that goes back to a June vote to raise the county wheel tax by $25.

“I think the three sleeping rooms is ridiculous,” said Morgan Pettigrew, owner of Pettigrew Adventures. “The county thinks putting a three-sleeping room limit on the house is going to somehow stop the party.”

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The nine Democratic commissioners voted for a resolution for “extreme-risk protection order” measures. Of the two Republican commissioners present for the vote, one recused himself and the other was not in the room for the vote.

“Chief Deputy Buckner is an exemplary law enforcement professional with a proven track record of excellence,” Sheriff Floyd Bonner said in the release.