Consolidation charter commission proposal gets mixed reviews from commissioners
“This is a cast of characters that’s majority white, majority male, majority of age … and majority wealthy,” said commissioner Tami Sawyer, seen here in June. “This is not an initiative that takes into consideration who Shelby County is and is not an initiative that takes into consideration the fact that the largest city in this new metro political government would be who would lose a lot of its autonomy.” (Lucy Garrett/Special to the Daily Memphian file)
The resolution to form a commission to draft a consolidation charter showed up in Wednesday committee sessions without notice. Like the City Council, county commissioners amended it to stop short of beginning to draft a charter and to include looking at changes to local government short of consolidation.
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