City Council Scorecard: Setting the budget past the impasse process
Jana Swearengen-Washington listens during the Memphis City Council's executive session. (Benjamin Naylor/The Daily Memphian file)
The Memphis City Council got Mayor Paul Young’s second budget proposal two weeks earlier than usual, and the council ended its budget season in June with a meeting to spare before the new fiscal year began July 1.
The main issue became how to handle a set of six impasse proceedings with labor unions. Those recommendations would have raised the pay of some city employees beyond the 3% across-the-board raise the City Council ultimately approved at the end of the budget process.
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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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Samuel Hardiman is an enterprise reporter who focuses on government and politics. He began his career at the Tulsa World where he covered business and K-12 education. Hardiman came to Memphis in 2018 to join the Memphis Business Journal, covering government and economic development. He then served as the Commercial Appeal’s city hall reporter and later joined The Daily Memphian in 2023. His current work focuses on the intersection of government, public policy, influence and how public dollars are spent.
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