The city of Memphis outlined Saturday how it will spend $16 million in federal funds on bonus pay for city workers.
City Chief Operating Officer Doug McGowen said the city will spend the bulk of that $16 million on a 9% one-time bonus for non-public safety employees. McGowen spoke to the Memphis City Council Saturday morning during the council s annual retreat.
Public safety employees police and fire will receive $2.4 million in bonus pay. Part-time city employees will receive a $1,000 bonus, McGowen said.
The city’s chief operating officer further described how the city would spend the federal funds Saturday after Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland said the city would pay out bonus pay in a speech two weeks ago but did not say how it would be allocated.
A Hyatt executive said the company was excited to introduce the “upscale lifestyle hotel” to the “city that invented rock n roll.”
On Thursday, Carlisle said a year ago, he didn’t know if this day would ever come but thanked the community members, Hyatt personnel, city officials and his wife for helping him bring the project to fruition.
“This was destined to be and it s a dream, sort of, 40 years in the making,” he said.
Bartlett-based trucking company RDX to build headquarters on the former site of the Mall of Memphis
The headquarters has easy access to I-240, which brings its drivers closer to the city’s industrial district in southeast Memphis. Author: Local 24 Staff (Local 24) Published: 6:16 PM CDT April 28, 2021 Updated: 6:16 PM CDT April 28, 2021
MEMPHIS, Tenn. Bartlett-based trucking company RDX is a homegrown success story and now is planning to build its new headquarters on the old Mall of Memphis site.
Wednesday, the company held a groundbreaking ceremony for the eight-million dollar development. RDX started in the founder s house in Bartlett. Now it has more than 100 employees. With the current shortage of truck drivers, Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland hopes this will encourage more people to get into the business.
Tennessee Gov. asks for mask mandates, restrictions to be lifted by Memorial Day Governor says COVID-19 no longer public health crisis in Tennessee, wants remaining mask and business restrictions lifted statewide By Kelly Roberts | April 27, 2021 at 4:26 PM CDT - Updated April 27 at 7:37 PM
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - Governor Bill Lee is trying to move the state into a new era, as he declares COVID-19 is no longer a statewide public health emergency for Tennessee.
He wants to see all mask mandates in the state gone by Memorial Day, but leaders in Shelby County arenât hinting at that happening.
Leeâs latest executive order ends local authority for counties operating under the state health department to make their own mask mandates. That does not include Shelby County and the six other metro health departments, but the governor is requesting any current mandates in those counties to be gone by the end of May.