Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Get email alerts on the Council Votes Summary topic
No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.
Votes at a glance: Key actions from the Jan. 7, 2025 Memphis City Council meeting
Summary
A consolidated list of ordinances, resolutions and approvals taken by the Memphis City Council on Jan. 7, 2025, with outcomes and references to docket items.
The Memphis City Council took a series of votes on Jan. 7, 2025. Below are the principal items, their outcomes and brief context. Where available the council's roll-call votes are indicated.
- Adoption of minutes: The council adopted the Dec. 17, 2024 meeting minutes (roll call recorded as yes votes; motion passed).
- Special Item 1 (motion by Councilman Warren to withdraw the hold on items 3 and 4): The motion failed; items 3 and 4 were held until the Feb. 4, 2025 agenda (recorded roll-call showed a majority voting no).
- PD 24-16 (Item 5, 1389 Fairfax Street): Approved as amended with conditions, including a sunset clause (see separate article for full discussion).
- SUP 24-11 (Item 6, 4965 Sun Avenue): Approved (roll-call recorded as yes votes).
- SUP 24-27 (Item 7, 5709 Mount Moriah Road): Approved (roll-call recorded as yes votes).
- SUP 24-34 / Zoning/Ordinance (Items 8 and 10, 485 North Hollywood Street / Z-2410, Ordinance 5924): The special use permit (Item 8) passed as amended with added conditions about fencing, rear storage and an option to pursue street/alley closure; the associated rezoning ordinance (Item 10, Ordinance 5924) passed on third and final reading.
- MLGW fiscal consent agenda (Items 19–25): Multiple contracts and change orders for Memphis Light, Gas & Water were approved, including landfill services, pump and motor work, utility payment center contracts, mulch/maintenance contracts, and equipment/service renewals (funded amounts recorded on the agenda).
- Consent agenda and ordinance referrals (Items 11–15, 32, etc.): Routine and committee items on the consent docket were approved, including first readings, engineering plats and naming ordinance on first reading (see minutes for full itemization).
- Fiscal consent and grant acceptances (Items 16–18, 33–36): The council accepted grant awards including Byrne/DOJ grants for community policing and emergency preparedness, a Hazardous Materials Emergency Preparedness grant, a Port Security grant, and appointment (Item 36) to the Sports Authority board; these items passed on recorded votes.
- Bonds and finance resolutions (Items 26–27): Resolutions authorizing sanitary-sewerage system revenue bond issuance in an amount not to exceed $70 million passed with recorded votes.
- Item 28 (committee to honor employees who lose their lives in the line of duty): Approved; Council amended to add additional categories (sanitation workers and MLGW were added) and all 13 council members recorded cosponsorship.
- Item 29 (Safe Streets and Roads for All grant support and neighborhood infrastructure fund): Approved; the city received federal funds and matched by Accelerate Memphis, and the council allocated $300,000 per council district from the additional funding approved in the resolution.
- Items 30–31 (community grant appropriations and amendment to council grant allocations): Approved as moved by budget committee and committee chairs; recorded roll-call votes indicate passage.
- Same-night minutes and add-ons: Same-night minute requests for multiple items (including items 13–18 and 32–36) were approved by recorded vote.
Several items were discussed at length in committee prior to the meeting; for detailed motions, vote tallies and staff reports see the official minutes and Planning & Development records referenced by docket numbers.
