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Water and gas rate hikes were approved but a proposed electric rate hike was rejected. The council also took back its rejection of a solid waste fee hike that goes on the same monthly utility bills. That after Mayor Jim Strickland threatened layoffs and reductions in garbage service in the new year without the hike.
Good morning, it’s Wednesday, Dec. 18. Today, the federal government is expected to announce a new initiative for seven cities, one of them being Memphis.
Memphis City Council members voted Tuesday, Dec. 17, to back state legislation that would allow the Memphis Zoo to sell beer during its regular business hours.
The City Council could also Tuesday revisit its decision two weeks ago to reject a solid waste fee hike. Mayor Jim Strickland said no fee hike could lead to laying off sanitation workers and scaling back garbage pickups of curbside trash. The combination with the MLGW rate hike proposal could cause the council to do either/or but not both.
Mayor Jim Strickland has raised the possibility of layoffs and garbage service cutbacks six days into the new year if the Memphis City Council doesn’t reconsider its decision to reject a solid waste fee hike.
The city administration lost the vote on a solid waste fee hike, but it has taken one issue with sanitation services off the table as fewer routes mean longer routes and close to an eight-hour work day for sanitation workers.
A solid waste fee rate hike was voted down by the City Council Tuesday in its next to last session of the year and of the current council's term.
It’s Wednesday, Dec. 4, and today Stax Music Academy and a special guest will announce details of its 20th anniversary.
City Council members approved development milestones Tuesday, Dec. 3, in three major Downtown development projects.
Plans for a Frayser convenience store with gas pumps drew opposition at the Tuesday, Dec. 3, City Council session from the owner of a Valero convenience store on an opposing corner.
Today is Giving Tuesday, and our gifts include a possible all-time volume record for FedEx, two billion-dollar developments and a reported new job for soccer star Tim Howard.
The decisions at Tuesday’s council session would remove two items from the agenda of the council that leaves office at the end of the month. Other items are straddling the New Year’s line between the council leaving office and the new council that takes office in January.
Dr. Kenneth Robinson will receive the 2019 Memphis City Council Humanitarian Award on Dec. 3.
On The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast, incoming City Council member J.B. Smiley Jr. said he would like to have a voice in the current council's decision about residency requirements. But he said he accepts if the referendum on the matter is approved by the current council before members leave office. He also said concerns about reliability if MLGW breaks ties with TVA might be a "scare tactic."
The council approved a November 2020 referendum on a residency requirement for police and fire fighters Tuesday on the first of three votes.
Tom Intrator, 18 S. Main developer, took the concept of aligned development to City Council members Tuesday as they reviewed a unique tax incentive for the $1.1 billion project that is a PILOT used like a TIF.
Memphis City Council members have paperwork on their agenda Tuesday for the second convention center hotel project, changes to the Union Row project incentives and a supplement to the Pinch District redevelopment.
On The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast, outgoing council Chairman Kemp Conrad discusses Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division rate hikes and a recent visit to Hungary.
Michalyn Easter-Thomas upset incumbent District 7 council member Berlin Boyd by a wide margin in runoff elections Thursday. And In District 1, challenger Rhonda Logan upset incumbent Sherman Greer.
MLGW brass, TVA leaders and Memphis City Council members met Wednesday at City Hall for the latest discussion in a decision the utility and the city are expected to make in 2020.
The races in District 1 and District 7 close out the 2019 election year in Memphis politics with hard fought contests reflecting political combat before the election season started.
Here is everything you need to know about participating in the last election day of 2019 – the dos and don'ts, what to expect and what's next.
Most of the early vote in the two Memphis City Council runoff races was in the District 7 matchup between incumbent Berlin Boyd and challenger Michalyn Easter-Thomas.
With three meetings left in the four-year term of office of city council members, and at least four new council members coming January, the council is lining up several items for action by the end of 2019.