County Commission caught between capital funding for schools or Regional One
Regional One, which is county owned, has asked for a $350 million capital fund. (The Daily Memphian file)
At one point Shelby County commissioners forgot they had allocated capital funding to the county’s seven public school systems as they debate how to fund $350 million ask by Regional One.
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Shelby County Commission 2022 budget season county capital budget Regional One Health schools capital funding Van Turner Reginald Coopwood Michael WhaleyBill Dries on demand
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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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