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Votes at a glance: Memphis City Council approves multiple consent items, grants, and contract awards
Summary
The council approved a package of consent and fiscal-consent items including transfers and MLGW purchase orders, several appointments, and resolutions on short-term rentals and immigration enforcement at sensitive locations; most consent items passed unanimously.
At its March 24 meeting the Memphis City Council approved a wide bundle of consent and fiscal-consent items, including grant acceptances, contract awards for MLGW, transfers for public-works projects and council grant allocations.
Key passed items included: - Item 24: Transfer and appropriation of $865,518 to complete several repair projects (Poplar Sweet Briar Interchange and Brooks Bridge repair among others). Committee recommended approval and the council voted to pass the item. - Items 8–9 and fiscal-consent MLGW items: Acceptance of grants and several MLGW purchase orders, including a 24-month purchase order for fluoric acid to Univar Solutions USA LLC ($810,000) and a 36-month purchase order for sodium hypochlorite to Hawkins Inc. ($4,000,592), and other procurement renewals; the fiscal consent items passed with committee recommendations. - Item 25: Reallocation of remaining funds from completed Parks Accelerate Memphis projects to other Parks projects; passed on same-night minutes. - Item 26: Allocation of $2,000 in FY26 council community grant funds (sponsored by Councilman Smiley); approved on same-night minutes. - Item 27: Resolution addressing public-safety concerns related to short-term rental properties and asking the mayor’s administration to strengthen enforcement of the city's short-term rental ordinance; passed after committee recommendation. - Item 28: Adoption of amendments to the comprehensive plan for the Hello High Park Small Area Plan (District 7); the ordinance passed on third reading. - Item 29: Appointment of Summer Egert Bennett to the Public Art Oversight Review Committee; confirmed. - Item 30: Resolution requesting that immigration enforcement actions not be staged at schools and churches; council approved a friendly amendment to include daycares and later expanded to city-owned properties before passing.
Most consent and fiscal items passed by unanimous roll call votes; several items were considered on same-night minutes and approved together. Item 18 (blight remediation amendments) was held until after the budget process and tabled to a later date.
