County hiring freeze continues to thaw with questions about budget numbers

By , Daily Memphian Published: August 24, 2020 10:21 PM CT

Shelby County commissioners approved a waiver to the freeze Monday for county firefighters but put off another waiver for 78 more positions in other departments. 

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Shelby County Commission 2020 budget season Dwan Gilliom Amber Mills Mick Wright

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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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