Memphis City Council Meeting: October 8, 2026

Memphis City Council recessed regular meeting, listed in the metadata as October 8, 2026; the chair referred to it as the October 6 meeting. The MLGW fiscal consent agenda passed following a favorable committee recommendation. It included utility relocation and contract actions, including Allen & Hoshall Inc. ($250,000), First Tech Incorporated (contract 12286; $261,531), and an award to Altec Industries Inc. for Class 5 and Class 8 bucket trucks ($1,686,234). The agenda also included Badger Meter Inc. water-meter parts, a $228,000 contract action, a $94,479.97 contract extension, and Clifton Larson Allen LLP external auditing services under contract 12720; some associated details and amounts are garbled in the transcript. A separate utility-relocation amount is stated as $1,488,978.78, though its exact item association is unclear.

Other spending actions included approval of a $150,000 FY2027 transfer to the Memphis Police Department to continue the SafeWays initiative, and approval of additional federal grant funding for a sidewalk construction project under contract EN01064 (the amount is garbled in the transcript). Council also passed on first reading an ordinance establishing a land-use and siting framework for data centers and other resource-intensive uses. Public commenters urged a moratorium on data-center development, citing environmental and community impacts; no moratorium vote is recorded. A zoning-map notification procedure ordinance passed third and final reading, with councilmembers clarifying that it did not itself change zoning maps or approve the broader 3.0 plan.