Council chairman, Commission member urge ‘No’ vote on sales tax referendum
Guest Columnist
Kemp Conrad
Kemp Conrad served on the Memphis City Council from 2009 to 2019 and was elected chair twice by his peers, in 2016 and 2019. He is a principal at Commercial Advisors LLC and serves on the Board of Directors of Pure Youth Academy, a State of Tennessee non-public Category 1 boarding school.
Guest Columnist
Edmund Ford Jr.
Edmund Ford Jr. represents District 9 on the Shelby County Board of Commissioners. Currently he serves as vice chairman of the County Commission budget committee.
'A sales tax increase (would) return our pension and healthcare benefits to a plan that only five years ago found Memphis on the precipice of fiscal ruin.'
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