Shelby County Commission wrestles financial issues with end of fiscal year looming
Commissioner Edmund Ford Jr., right, was mong those with financial questions at the June 2 Shelby County Commission meeting. (Brad Vest/The Daily Memphian file)
The full commission has one more voting meeting on June 23 to approve an operating budget, a capital budget and set the county property-tax rate before the fiscal year begins.
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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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