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Trustee: mayor's proposed budget omits $3.9M tax-relief matching program required by ordinance
Summary
Shelby County Trustee Regine Newman said the mayor's proposed FY27 budget omits the property tax relief matching program (about $3.9M) and flagged a $614,000 shift from CIP to O&M that the administration did not include; she said staff are investigating a $535,000 personnel variance in the trustee budget.
Regine Newman, Shelby County Trustee, told commissioners the proposed FY27 budget omits funding for a property tax relief matching program that an ordinance requires and said the omission leaves a $3.9 million gap.
"There is no money for the property tax relief matching program at all despite the ordinance which exists," Newman said. She said the mayor's proposed budget also excludes $200,000 for the Greater Memphis Financial Empowerment Center and the $614,000 in one-time O&M items the trustee's office had moved from CIP at the administration's request.
Newman said the trustee did not request personnel changes but found a $535,000 personnel variance that appears to be linked to salary entries and is under investigation. She asked commissioners for assistance if the commission chooses to pursue cosponsorship of a budget amendment resolution to restore these items.
Commissioners discussed options including revisiting the tax rate or identifying other funding sources; administration staff said the body can vote to include the item and that budgeted language in the ordinance allowed for the program if budgeting was available.
