County budget proposal $9.5M short, according to trustee
Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris, in his May 14 budget address to the Shelby County Commission, proposed a property-tax rate of $2.73. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
The Shelby County trustee says County Mayor Lee Harris’ budget proposal is $9.5 million in the red for the upcoming fiscal year.
But Harris’ administration says that’s not the case after looking at past revenue figures.
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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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