What’s in Lee Harris’ ‘lean and mean’ county budget proposal?
“While it seems like every city in Shelby County over the last eight years has raised taxes, I’m proposing that Shelby County continue to manage its finances the same way households do,” Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris said. “We don’t spend more than what we receive. And unless it’s vitally important, we don’t buy it. We don’t spend it.” (Brad Vest/Special to The Daily Memphian file)
Lowering the property-tax rate a few cents and another proposed school, the third of his tenure, highlighted Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris’ final budget proposal.
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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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