County budget still fuzzy seven weeks into new fiscal year
Shelby County mayor Lee Harris talks about his budget proposal during a May 27, 2020 Shelby County Commission meeting held at the Peabody Hotel Grand Ballroom. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian file)
County commissioners vote Monday on a waiver of the county's hiring and pay freeze, and nearly 100 more waivers requested by officials are waiting in the wings. Commissioners say they need a budget book with specific line items and dollar figures to know whether the waivers would put the county in the red.
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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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