Budget, balancing and timing: The top County Commission votes of 2024
Shelby County Commissioners Amber Mills, left, and Edmund Ford Jr., right, during the Shelby County Commission meeting on Monday, Aug. 26, 2024. (Brad Vest/Special to The Daily Memphian file)
Shelby County Commissioners were at the halfway point of their four-year term of office by the end of 2024.
And the second year looked a lot like the first — especially the budget season.
The answers to some of the questions about financing a trio of capital projects — the construction of two new high schools and rebuilding Regional One Health’s campus — came from some unexpected places in 2024.
Meanwhile, an effort to regulate utility-scale solar farms in northern Shelby County became a reminder that timing is just as crucial in what happens in government as where the money is coming from.
These are the commission’s major votes of 2024. (And here are bios of the 13 commissioners.)
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