Taxes, guns, cops and schools: The top City Council votes of 2024
Chairman JB Smiley Jr. listens as Mayor Paul Young speaks during the Memphis City Council's executive session July 9. (Benjamin Naylor/The Daily Memphian file)
The first year of the current Memphis City Council’s four-year term was a busy one.
Mayor Paul Young, who took office with the 13-member council Jan. 1., presented the body with a 75-cent property-tax hike and a solid-waste-fee hike. The council reduced the property-tax hike to 49 cents and added an increase in the city auto-registration fee to the waste-fee increase.
The council confirmed all Young’s appointees except Memphis Police Department leader C.J. Davis, who remains on interim status.
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