County Commission Scorecard: Tracking budget and tax-rate votes
Shelby County Commissioner Shante Avant attends a retreat Sept. 25, 2024. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
Shelby County commissioners made the key decisions to end their 2025 budget season at a June 23 meeting that spanned eight hours and included seven separate votes on a new county property tax rate.
The Commission Scorecard tracks the series of votes on that and the budgets that shaped the decision to keep the property tax rate at the state-certified rate of $2.69. The commission took a total of 14 votes, including those on budgets and amendments to the operating budget.
The following chronology is in the order the votes were taken.
Commission votes
- The commission approved the state-certified tax rate of $2.69 on a unanimous 13-0 vote.
This was the vote accepting the base property tax rate.
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