Budget Changes Include Cooper-Young Garage

VOL. 129 | NO. 109 | Thursday, June 05, 2014

A Cooper-Young parking garage and a pool of capital funding divided equally among the seven Memphis City Council districts are the two biggest ticket items in the way of still-tentative budget amendments proposed by council members.

Memphis City Council members proposed a set of budget amendments Tuesday that include funding for a Cooper-Young parking garage and other proposals from council members. Final votes on the amendments are two weeks away.

(Daily News File/Lance Murphey)

The Tuesday, June 3, budget wrap-up in council committee sessions was the first of two such amending sessions, which will resume June 17.

The amendments are mostly additions to the $596 million operating budget and $83 million capital budget proposed earlier this year by Memphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr.

Among the amendments presented Tuesday in budget committee, but not voted on yet, were:

$3.6 million in capital funding for a Cooper-Young parking garage, proposed by council member Janis Fullilove.

$14 million in capital funding to be divided equally among the seven single-member council districts, proposed by council member Wanda Halbert, with a freeze on all nonemergency, nonessential spending by the city for one year as an alternative.

$1 million proposed by council member Joe Brown for Klondike revitalization.

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Budget Changes Include Cooper-Young Garage