There are 15 article(s) tagged 2025 budget season:

• May 2025

  • County Commission braces for another budget battle

    Shelby County commissioners drew battle lines at their Monday, May 19, session as they go into the home stretch of their budget season.

    By Bill Dries 8 hours ago

  • County Commission moves into budget season

    Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris has proposed a property tax rate for the new fiscal year that starts July 1 but the commission may leave the ordinance setting the new tax rate blank for now.

    By Bill Dries May 18, 2025

  • Political Roundup: ‘Some of these devils want me to be gone,’ Ford Jr. said

    Commissioner Edmund Ford Jr. calls out political rivals, campaigning for 2026 has already started and county budget hearings will be missing a lot of key people.

    By Bill Dries May 18, 2025

  • Fractured ties between Shelby County mayor, Commission could make budget season bumpy

    The Shelby County government budget season opens Wednesday, May 14, in County Commission committee sessions. There is more than dollar figures and the county property tax rate at stake.

    By Bill Dries May 14, 2025

• April 2025

  • No tax hike in Memphis mayor’s budget proposal

    Mayor Paul Young’s second budget proposal as mayor trims $30 million in red ink Young says began his budget planning process. 

    By Bill Dries April 08, 2025

  • City budget season opens with uncertainty

    Complicating the budget proposal for Memphis Mayor Paul Young is an estimated $7 million hole in revenue because of problems at the Shelby County Clerk’s Office.

    By Bill Dries April 07, 2025

  • Political Roundup: Budget season, Kelsey’s pardon, Blackburn and Cohen on the courts

    The Political Roundup also digs into the reaction at the National Civil Rights Museum’s April 4th commemoration to Donald Trump’s executive orders.

    By Bill Dries April 07, 2025

• March 2025

  • Young hopes to dodge tax hike as budget looms

    Memphis Mayor Paul Young also heard more concerns about xAI at the One Memphis forum Wednesday, but promised to devote its tax revenue to specific public projects in Southwest Memphis.

    By Bill Dries March 27, 2025

  • Memphis City Council votes on permits for on-street parking

    If 75% of the property owners in a defined area sign a petition, parking on their streets would be allowed only with a $50 permit with some exemptions.

    By Bill Dries March 25, 2025

  • City Council sets early start to budget season in return from spring break

    The council also voted on a slate of ordinances, including a $300 fee to go with the tax bill of owners of blighted properties the city has to clean up.

    By Bill Dries March 18, 2025

• February 2025

  • Road to new county budget includes some red ink

    County officials aren’t putting any dollar figures to the deficit they expect when County Mayor Lee Harris presents his budget proposal in late April. But it’s the talk of the County Commission’s early budget hearings.

    By Bill Dries February 17, 2025

• January 2025

  • County Commission sets schedule to appoint new judge

    At its Monday, Jan. 27, meeting, the Shelby County Commission set the process for filling the vacancy that comes with the March retirement of General Sessions Court Judge Bill Anderson. Also a test of the commission’s new budget subcommittee process.

    By Bill Dries January 26, 2025

  • What the county revenue forecast could mean for your property taxes

    Real estate values in the recently completed countywide property reappraisal are up about 27% compared to in 2021.

    By Bill Dries January 25, 2025

  • Commission starting budget season early

    The early start to county budget hearings is an attempt to resolve some of the friction between county elected officials and the Mayor Lee Harris’ office.

    By Bill Dries January 14, 2025

• December 2024

  • Shelby County Commission looks for smoother, swifter budget season

    The rules discussed at a Saturday, Dec. 14, retreat at Shelby Farms Park include a budget subcommittee to hash out details of budget amendments.

    By Bill Dries December 14, 2024