Content Tagged 'Memphis City Council'

The Tennessee comptroller is warning the City of Memphis to straighten out its money mess. Right now the city is spending cash it doesn't have. Watch Video

Memphis road conditions are the number one complaint received by city council members. They are currently so underfunded, they get only get repaved once every 60 years. Watch Video

A Memphis City Council contract impasse group is recommending firefighters also get their 4.6 percent pay cut restored. Different committees have recommended the same thing for police and sanitation workers. Watch Video

For the first time in years people started talking about cutting the Memphis Police Department's budget; it's something that was unheard of years ago. Watch Video

In the ongoing fight between the Memphis Police Union and the City of Memphis, the union has now filed an ethics complaint against city council lawyer, Allan Wade. Watch Video

The committee charged with finding new names for three Confederate-themed Memphis city parks is ready to make its recommendations. Watch Video

Memphis City Council members are frustrated, confused, and angry with the mayor's budget. Watch Video

The Memphis City Council needs to explain why they don't have any extra money in the budget. The city no longer contributes $60 million a year to Memphis City Schools, so where did all that cash go? Watch Video

Memphis City Council members say you will think they're increasing taxes by fourteen cents; it will sure look that when you do the math. But because of property values dropping, they say it won't be a tax increase at all. Watch Video

In a new deal being offered to Shelby County Commissioners, city police would continue to provide security to all schools in the city limits. In return, Shelby County would take over day to day operations of the Memphis Animal Shelter. Watch Video

Get ready to cough up the cash to protest in Memphis - or have a parade, or a block party, and you can thank the Ku Klux Klan. City council members voted Tuesday to change the law to require organizations to pay half the cost of police and any other security needed. Watch Video

There are more than 45,000 parking spots in downtown Memphis, but recently Memphis City Council member Joe Brown couldn't find a spot, which apparently got him thinking. Watch Video

The Memphis City Council has a message to state lawmakers when it comes to renaming city parks: stay out of the Bluff City's business. Watch Video

The battle over renaming a Memphis park dedicated to a founding member of the Ku Klux Klan caused a war of words at Memphis City Council Tuesday. Watch Video

City Council members say they didn't do it, but Memphis Mayor A C Wharton cut the Police Department budget and now there's no money for Blue Crush projects. Watch Video

Several Memphis City Council members want a mulligan, a do over, on golf courses slated for closure to save money. They say the courses on the list are only in poor neighborhoods and some questions why the City is in the golf business at all. Watch Video

Recent violence against tow truck drivers in Memphis is getting attention from city hall. Memphis City Councilman Lee Harris says he will be pushing to work out a plan with police to give tow truck drivers more protection, especially in high crime areas. Watch Video

In the last four years, 21 cops have been fired by the Memphis Police Department. The reasons for the terminations have never been released, but Memphis City Council members say most of those fired didn't have a college degree. Now council members are considering making the hiring requirements of the Memphis police the toughest in the state. Watch Video

Let's make a deal. That's what the Memphis City Council is saying to the Freedom from Religion Foundation. The foundation threatened to sue the city if council members continue to allow prayer at meetings. The city council adopted new prayer policies in hopes of stopping the lawsuit. Watch Video

There's a full court press to get the sale of the Memphis Grizzlies approved by the beginning of the basketball season. Tuesday, the city council took a major step toward making that happen. Watch Video

Think businesses getting tax breaks would voluntarily pay Memphis more money to help the city's budget crunch? What about a non-profit group or a church? Memphis City Council members say it could happen. Watch Video

Shelby County Commissioner Terry Roland is dead-set against a plan that would charge you for car inspections, and that would include people who live outside city limits but drive into the city more than twice a week. But now a few days have come and gone. Roland's not as worried as he used to be. Watch Video

Memphis City Council members presented their budgets at City Hall Tuesday and none agree with Mayor Wharton's spending plan, which includes a property tax increase. Watch Video

A special meeting was called as Memphis City Council members went over three new budget plans, but here's a switch. All of the council's proposed plans would cut taxes; the only one that raises taxes is the one proposed by Memphis Mayor A C Wharton. Watch Video

A trip to the gas station could end up costing you more if Memphis City Council members have their way. Watch Video

More choice words for Memphis. Shelby County Commissioner Sidney Chism says he is fed up with city leaders taking credit for work they don't do. Watch Video

The idea of a 47-cent property tax increase is not going over well with taxpayers, and they let it be known at Tuesday night's city council meeting. Watch Video

Memphis Police Director Toney Armstrong says problems inside the department's property and evidence room will be fixed. An audit found big problems with missing and misplaced evidence, and who had computer access. Armstrong had to explain to the Memphis City Council what's he's doing to get control of the situation. Watch Video

In two weeks the Memphis City Council is scheduled to vote on a plan where the city would get out of the inspections business by July of next year. Watch Video

If you own a home in Memphis you can breathe a bit easier. Mayor A C Wharton now says he won't get the 47 cent tax increase he requested. Watch Video

The Memphis City Council has delayed a vote on including sexual orientation in the city's non-discrimination ordinance for 30 days.

The city of Memphis is considering the creation of an emergency sick leave bank similar to one the County Commission is exploring.

Some Memphis City Council members say it's time for the city to get out of the auto inspection business. Watch Video

After months of angry Memphis motorists calling city hall, it looks like there's a change coming concerning the check engine light issue. Watch Video

Shelby County drivers beware. Memphis Mayor A C Wharton says if you use Memphis city roads and services during your commute in and out of the city, you should be forced to get your car inspected and pay for it as well. Watch Video

A Memphis woman says MLGW overcharged her big time and keeps doing it, leaving her with a utility bill more than $1,700. The problem is so bad the city council now wants answers. Watch Video

Earlier this week, Memphis City Councilman Ed Ford Jr. said he wants to charge for motor vehicle inspections. He also wants people who travel into the city at least two times a week to get their cars inspected too. Ford says he's getting nothing but good comments from people in Memphis about the plan, and so he's moving forward. Watch Video

You’d swear in Memphis that old tires grew on trees. Every spring, it seems, is marked by the trash blooming in vacant lots all over the city. It’s a mess, and Memphis City Council member Lee Harris knows it. Watch Video

The business of sin is off the table for now with the Memphis City Council, unless you believe a sales tax increase is a sin. Watch Video

The City of Memphis has a budget but the Mayor says the city's battle is far from over. Watch Video

Memphis is being sued for praying before each city council meeting.

You'd think a property tax cut would mean that the birds would be singing, the bees would be buzzing, and everything would be ice cream and cake in a happy Bluff City, but it's not. Watch Video

The battle to keep religion and government separate is brewing in the Mid-South. Watch Video

After more than four hours of council debate, the City of Memphis has a new budget, and it will lower your property taxes.

It will cost nearly $20 million to fix and reopen the historic Chisca Hotel. Members of the Memphis City Council are also talking about the city throwing in $2 million to help renovate the hotel, but with all the talk about the city's budget woes, is it a wise investment? Watch Video

Memphis City Council is putting the brakes on car inspections; residents will still need one but the City no longer wants to pay for it. Watch Video

The city will get out of the inspection business in July of next year. Some are hoping that Shelby County Government will man up when it comes to inspections and fighting smog. Fat chance, says the incoming Chairman of the County Commission. Watch Video

Nobody seems to know how this happened, but Memphis has some of the lowest gasoline prices in the country. With that in mind, Memphis City Councilman Ed Ford, Jr. has an idea. He wants to make gasoline more expensive. Just one penny a gallon, he says, that’s all. Watch Video

First it was Mid-South high school football games, now it's city council meetings. The same group that got Desoto County School District to stop public prayers before kick-off now has its sights on the Memphis City Council. Watch Video

With the bow of their heads and a collective "Amen," the Memphis City Council seemed to be calling the Atheists' bluff. Watch Video