Fractured ties between Shelby County mayor, Commission could make budget season bumpy
Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris addresses the county commissioners during a Jan. 27, 2024 budget retreat. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris presents his proposed fiscal year 2026 budget on Wednesday, May 14, during committee sessions of the Shelby County Commission.
And the path through several commission votes to the July 1 start of that new fiscal year promises to be challenging on several fronts.
More is at stake than the dollar figures and the county property tax rate.
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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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