The making of Shelby County’s budget and tax rate
Shelby County Commissioner Michael Whaley listens during a meeting Aug. 26, 2024. (Brad Vest/Special to The Daily Memphian)
After Shelby County commissioners gave final approval to a new affordable housing initiative Monday, June 23, Chairman Michael Whaley announced, “I think it’s main event time.”
With that, the Shelby County Board of Commissioners had run through every non-budget item on its 72-item agenda.
The 13 commissioners then began debating and voting on a series of resolutions and ordinances that completed the next-to-last budget season of their four-year term shortly after 11 p.m.
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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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