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Memphis, Tennessee

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General data

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Mayor: Jim Strickland
Mayor party: Nonpartisan
Concluding mayoral election: 2019
Adjacent mayoral election: 2023
Last metropolis quango election: 2019
Next city council ballot: 2022
City council seats: 13
City website
Limerick data (2019)
Population: 651,932
Race: White 29.ii%
African American 64.1%
Asian 1.7%
Native American 0.2%
Pacific Islander 0.0%
Two or more 1.v%
Ethnicity: Hispanic 7.2%
Median household income: $41,228
Loftier school graduation rate: 85.7%
College graduation charge per unit: 26.ii%
Related Memphis offices
Tennessee Congressional Delegation
Tennessee State Legislature
Tennessee state executive offices


Memphis is a metropolis in Shelby County, Tennessee. The city'south population was 633,104 as of 2020, according to the United States Census Agency.

Click on the links below to learn more than virtually the city's...

  • Mayor
  • City council
  • Other elected officials
  • Elections
  • Census information
  • Upkeep
  • Contact information
  • Ballot measures
  • County government

Urban center government

See also: Mayor-council government

The metropolis of Memphis utilizes a strong mayor and city council arrangement. In this form of municipal regime, the metropolis council serves as the metropolis's primary legislative trunk and the mayor serves as the metropolis'southward principal executive.[one]

Mayor

See also: List of electric current mayors of the top 100 cities in the United States

The mayor is the urban center's chief executive. The responsibilities of the mayor include proposing a budget, signing legislation into law, appointing departmental directors, and overseeing the metropolis's 24-hour interval-to-day operations.[1] [2] The current Mayor of Memphis is Jim Strickland (nonpartisan). Strickland assumed role on Jan ane, 2016.

City quango

See besides: Listing of current city council officials of the top 100 cities in the United States

The Memphis Urban center Council is the city's primary legislative body. It is responsible for adopting the city budget, blessing mayoral appointees, levying taxes, and making or amending city laws, policies, and ordinances.[3]

The city council is made up of thirteen members. Seven members are elected by 1 of the urban center's seven districts, while the other six are elected past super districts. These super districts are larger districts that consist of 2 or more regular-sized districts. The two super districts each elect three representatives to the urban center council.[4]

The widget beneath automatically displays data most urban center council meetings. The topic list contains a sampling of keywords that Voterheads, a local authorities monitoring service, constitute in each meeting agenda. Click the meeting link to meet more info and the full agenda:

Other elected officials

Mayoral partisanship

See as well: Political party affiliation of the mayors of the 100 largest cities

Memphis has a Democratic mayor. Equally of May 2022, 62 mayors in the largest 100 cities by population are affiliated with the Autonomous Party, 25 are affiliated with the Republican Party, four are independents, seven identify as nonpartisan or unaffiliated, and two mayors' affiliations are unknown. While most mayoral elections in the 100 largest cities are nonpartisan, most officeholders are affiliated with a political party. Click hither for a list of the 100 largest cities' mayors and their partisan affiliations.

Elections

2022

Run into also: Metropolis elections in Memphis, Tennessee (2022)

The metropolis of Memphis, Tennessee, is holding a special general ballot for municipal court judge on August iv, 2022. The filing deadline for this election was April 7, 2022.

2019

See also: City elections in Memphis, Tennessee (2019)

The city of Memphis, Tennessee, held general elections for mayor, city council, city court clerk, and municipal court judges on Oct 3, 2019. The deadline for candidates to file to run in this ballot was July 18, 2019. Click hither for more information well-nigh the mayoral ballot.

2015

See also: Memphis, Tennessee municipal elections, 2015

The urban center of Memphis, Tennessee, held elections for mayor and city council on October 8, 2015. City quango races for Districts 2, 3, 4, 5, and seven required runoff elections on November 19, 2015, with no candidates receiving majorities of the general election vote.[5] The filing deadline for candidates who wished to run in this ballot was July 17, 2015. All 13 metropolis quango seats were upwardly for election.[six]

Census data

The table below shows demographic information about the city.

Demographic Data for Memphis (2020)
Memphis
Population 650,910
Country expanse (sq mi) 294
Race and ethnicity**
White 27.9%
Black/African American 64.4%
Asian i.eight%
Native American 0.2%
Pacific Islander 0%
Two or more than 2.2%
Hispanic/Latino 7.4%
Education
High schoolhouse graduation rate 86.five%
College graduation rate 26.half-dozen%
Income
Median household income $41,864
Persons below poverty level 24.six%
Source: U.Southward. Census Bureau, "American Community Survey" (five-year estimates 2015-2020)
**Note: Percentages for race and ethnicity may add together upward to more than than 100 percent because respondents may report more than than one race and the Hispanic/Latino ethnicity may be selected in conjunction with any race. Read more almost race and ethnicity in the census here.

Budget

The city'south budget process operates by fiscal years running from July one to June xxx of the next year. The city's budget role is responsible for coordinating the budget process. After the budget office compiles the budget requests by the city'south dissimilar divisions, the proposed budget is submitted to the mayor. The mayor volition present the budget to the urban center council in April. The metropolis council volition concur hearings to review and revise the budget. After the review process is complete, the city quango will prefer the budget.[7]

Fiscally standardized cities data

The fiscally standardized cities (FiSC) data below was compiled by the Lincoln Found of Country Policy to make municipal budgets comparable across cities in the United States.[8]

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FiSCs are constructed by adding revenues and expenditures of each central city municipal government to a portion of the revenues and expenditures of overlying governments, including counties, contained school districts, and special districts. The allocations to FiSCs are estimates of the revenues collected from and services provided to key urban center residents and businesses past these overlying contained governments. Thus FiSCs provides a full film of revenues raised from metropolis residents and businesses and spending on their behalf, whether done past the metropolis authorities or a separate overlying government.[9]

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—Lincoln Plant of State Policy[10]

The tables below show estimated finances inside metropolis limits. As such, the revenue and expenses listed may differ from the actual city upkeep.

Acquirement in 2017
Revenue type Amount
Total Revenue $5,198,475,905
General Revenue $iii,094,792,324
Federal Aid $169,174,656
Land Help $758,594,834
Revenue enhancement Revenue $1,273,388,740
Charges & Misc. General Revenue $893,627,562
Utility Revenue $1,563,813,942
Liquor Shop Revenue $0
Employee Retirement Trust Revenue $539,869,640
Expenditures in 2017
Expenditure blazon Amount
Total Expenditures $4,923,700,992
Full general Expenditures $ii,803,210,986
Instruction Services Expenditure $899,101,244
Social Services and Income Maintenance Expenditure $366,775,880
Transportation Expenditure $81,478,172
Public Safety Expenditure $613,601,050
Environment and Housing Expenditure $284,853,542
Governmental Administration Expenditure $209,338,940
Interest on General Debt $122,694,083
Miscellaneous Expenditure $225,368,076
Utility Expenditure $1,771,787,727
Liquor Store Expenditure $0
Employee Retirement Trust Expenditure $348,682,683
Intergovernmental Expenditures $19,596

Historical full acquirement and expenditure

To come across the historical total acquirement or expenditures every bit a rounded amount in this city, hover over the confined.[8]

Memphis, Tennessee salaries and pensions over $95,000

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Contact information

Mayor's office
City Hall
125 Due north. Main St., Room 700
Memphis, TN 38103
Phone: 901-636-6000

City Court Clerk'south part
201 Poplar Ave
Memphis, TN 38103
Phone: 901-636-3400

Click here for city council contact information.

Election measures

Run into also: Shelby County, Tennessee ballot measures

The urban center of Memphis is in Shelby Canton. A list of ballot measures in Shelby County is bachelor here.

Noteworthy events

2020: Events and activity post-obit the death of George Floyd

Meet also: Events following the death of George Floyd and responses in select cities from May 29-31, 2020

During the weekend of May 29-31, 2020, demonstrations and protests took place in cities nationwide, including Memphis, following the death of George Floyd. Events in Memphis, Tennessee, began on Wednesday, May 27, 2020, at the Memphis Police Section's Union Avenue precinct station.[xi] Gov. Neb Lee (R) activated the Tennessee National Guard statewide on May 31, but none were deployed to the urban center by the end of the weekend.[12] No curfews were issued over the weekend.

2015: Written report on city'southward nondiscrimination laws

See also: Employment nondiscrimination laws in Tennessee

In July 2015, the Movement Advancement Project described Memphis, Tennessee, every bit a city or county that did not prohibit discrimination in employment on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity via ordinances that apply to public and private employers. At that time, a total of 71 of America'south largest 100 cities prohibited private employers from discriminating on the ground of sexual orientation, while 69 of those cities besides prohibited discrimination based on gender identity. This did not include those jurisdictions that prohibited discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity for government employees.[xiii]

Nondiscrimination laws tin can cover a diverseness of areas, including public employment, private employment, housing, and public accommodations. Such laws may be enacted at the state, county, or city level.

See too

  • Cities in Tennessee
  • Shelby County, Tennessee
  • Largest cities in the United states of america past population

External links

  • Urban center of Memphis
  • Part of the Mayor
  • Urban center Council
  • Memphis Urban center Charter and Lawmaking

Footnotes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Official Metropolis Charter of Memphis, "Commodity six. Mayor - Sec.37," accessed August sixteen, 2021
  2. City of Memphis, "Office of the Mayor," accessed September 15, 2014
  3. Official City Charter of Memphis, "Article 7. Lath of Commissioners - Sec. 7.41-53.4," accessed August 16, 2021
  4. City of Memphis, "City Council," accessed September 22, 2014
  5. WREG, "City Council elections going to a runoff," October ix, 2015
  6. Shelby County Election Commission, "Election Calendar 2015," accessed December 18, 2014
  7. City of Memphis, "FY 2021 Adopted Operating Upkeep," accessed August 16, 2021
  8. 8.0 8.1 Lincoln Found of Land Policy, "Fiscally Standardized Cities database," accessed June iv, 2021
  9. Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
  10. Lincoln Constitute of Land Policy, "Fiscally Standardized Cities," accessed May 26, 2021
  11. Commercial Entreatment, "'Finish killing black people': Demonstration closes Union Avenue equally protesters face up off with counter-protesters, MPD," May 29, 2020
  12. ABC Local 24, "Gov. Lee Mobilizes National Baby-sit Beyond the State, Calls for Further Investigation into Nashville Unrest," May 31, 2020
  13. Move Advocacy Projection, "Local Employment Not-Discrimination Ordinances," accessed July vii, 2015