County Commission passes budget — with no property tax hike
“This is just raising taxes to raise taxes,” Commissioner Amber Mills said, explaining her opposition to a property tax hike. “It’s not what servants do. There is no plan.” (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
A majority of Shelby County commissioners favored some kind of small property tax hike in the new budget, but ultimately couldn’t get seven votes on how to split up the additional revenue.
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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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