In critical week ahead, County Commission will wrangle budget and tax rate
Miska Clay Bibbs is chair of the Shelby County Commission’s Budget Committee. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
Shelby County Commissioners will try to get most of the heavy lifting in their budget season done this week. Their June 23 meeting will be the last regularly scheduled one before the new fiscal year starts July 1.
The commission has a list of 23 amendments and adjustments to County Mayor Lee Harris’ $1.7 billion consolidated county budget proposal.
The amendments proposed by various County Commissioners and some countywide elected officials total $122.6 million.
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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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