New positions, pay raises in clerk’s office draw fire from county administration
“I understand what the clerk is saying,” said Commissioner Henri Brooks, left. “But I need for the administration to tell me if she has the money to do what she wants to do.” Commissioner Charlie Caswell Jr. is at right. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
The County Commission delayed action Monday on three of the four resolutions from Circuit Court Clerk Jamita Swearengen. But it advanced three ordinances on Juvenile Court conditions.
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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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