Taxes, guns, cops and schools: The top City Council votes of 2024
Chairman JB Smiley Jr. listens as Mayor Paul Young speaks during the Memphis City Council's executive session July 9. (Benjamin Naylor/The Daily Memphian file)
The first year of the current Memphis City Council’s four-year term was a busy one.
Mayor Paul Young, who took office with the 13-member council Jan. 1., presented the body with a 75-cent property-tax hike and a solid-waste-fee hike. The council reduced the property-tax hike to 49 cents and added an increase in the city auto-registration fee to the waste-fee increase.
The council confirmed all Young’s appointees except Memphis Police Department leader C.J. Davis, who remains on interim status.
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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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