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Can the city's politicians rise above grandstanding and previous political vendettas for the good of the Memphis sports scene?
Memphis City Council is expected to vote Tuesday on an amended resolution on Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium funding and transfer of ownership.
Memphis City Council committees meet on every first and third Tuesday of every month. [3] The first city council took office in 1968, after the modern city charter had been approved by Memphis voters in a 1966 referendum. The 1966 charter set the salary for council members at $6,000, which was later raised to $20,100 in 1995, and later raised ...
A Memphis City Council meeting can be seen through the City of Memphis seal in the meeting room door at city hall in Memphis, Tenn., on Tuesday, July 25, 2023.
The road "Morrison Drive" leading into the civic center is named for Bill Morrison, a member of the Memphis City Council, representing District 1, from 2008 to 2018 and who championed the project. [3] The civic center was "unofficially" opened in the spring of 2020. [4] The official ribbon cutting occurred on November 19, 2020. [5]
The city of Memphis is split between two congressional districts. The western three-fourths of the city, including downtown, forms the core of the 9th District, which has been represented by Democrat Steve Cohen since 2007. Cohen was the first white Democrat to represent a significant portion of Memphis in more than 40 years.
The proposed $50 million donation and subsequent renovations of Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium are now going through Memphis City Council approval.
Construction of the facility began on April 15, 1963. [5] From its opening in October 1964, the Coliseum was the first racially desegregated facility in Memphis. [5] Unlike most facilities in Memphis, which largely hesitated to integrate following the 1963 Watson v, United States U.S. Supreme Court case regarding local segregation, [5] and which was also argued two days after construction ...