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Shelby County committee votes to seek 180-day moratorium on housing-related pilot agreements
Summary
A Shelby County committee voted to amend a draft resolution to request a 180-day moratorium on new housing-related pilot agreements and extensions, and to forward the cleaned draft to the Shelby County Commission for review. Members discussed subpoena authority, staffing for a document review, public access to records and the scale of the review.
The Shelby County Pilot Reform Committee voted to amend and advance a draft resolution requesting a 180-day moratorium on new housing-related pilot agreements and extensions and to forward the revised draft to the Shelby County Commission for review.
The amended language removes the phrase “affordable housing” and replaces it with “housing” so the moratorium would apply to pilots and pilot extensions related to housing generally, the committee decided in a voice vote after a motion to amend was moved by Cardell Orrin and seconded by Austin Harrison.
The committee’s legislative counsel, Marcy Ingram, said the final draft combined three earlier drafts and added two substantive changes: a provision allowing either the assessor’s office or the commission to issue subpoenas if boards do not voluntarily turn over records,…
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