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Metro budget

Nashville’s next city budget includes a substantial property tax increase

Cynthia Abrams

June 17, 2025

Nashville’s Metro Council approved a property tax increase as part of the city’s $3.8 billion spending plan on Tuesday night.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: Courtney Johnston, Delishia Porterfield, Freddie O'Connell, Metro budget, Nashville Metro Council, Thom Druffel, Tonya Hancock

Nashville’s Metro Council closes in on final budget, with implications for the property tax

Cynthia Abrams

June 16, 2025

Nashville Metro Council October 2023

Nashville is close to finalizing its spending plan, with the Metro Council scheduled to vote on the budget Tuesday night.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: Courtney Johnston, Delishia Porterfield, Freddie O'Connell, Metro budget, property taxes

Affordable housing, employee pay and youth safety: Nashvillians push to be included in a revised city budget

Cynthia Abrams

June 6, 2025

Nashville’s Metro Council is one step closer to finalizing the city budget, and heard from residents about items they would like to see prioritized.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: Barnes Housing Trust Fund, budget, city budgeting, Delishia Porterfield, Metro budget, Nashville Metro Council, Nashville Peoples Budget, Southern Movement Committee, Stand Up Nashville, Varsity Spending Plan

Your Turn to Talk: The $3.8 billion dollar Metro Budget

Mary Mancini

June 5, 2025

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Fifty-seven percent of the mayor’s recommended budget for next year comes from property taxes. Another almost twenty percent comes from local sales tax.

Filed Under: Programs Tagged With: Delishia Porterfield, Mary Jo Wiggins, Metro budget, Murat Arik, Nashville Metro Council

‘We’ll be a partner’ versus ‘we’ll see you in court’ — officials far apart on federal funding disruptions

Catherine Sweeney

May 4, 2025

Tennessee has suddenly lost hundreds of millions of dollars as the federal government cancels promised funding, and recent reactions from two prominent elected officials differ sharply.

Filed Under: Health Care, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Bill Lee, federal funding freeze, Freddie O'Connell, Metro budget, Tennessee Department of Health

Nashville’s property reassessment is underway. Here’s what that means for your tax bills — and city revenues.

Cynthia Abrams

March 10, 2025

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For all property owners in Nashville, it’s a big year. That’s because it’s time for the city’s property reassessment.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: Metro budget, Nashville real estate, property reappraisal, property taxes

Gun violence prevention, transit and housing: what Nashvillians want their city to fund

Cynthia Abrams

February 6, 2025

Nashvillians gathered this week before the Metro Council to request salary increases for Metro employees and more funding for the arts and affordable housing, among other causes.

Filed Under: Metro Tagged With: Black Nashville Assembly, budget, city budgeting, Delishia Porterfield, gun violence, Metro budget, Nashville Metro Council, public transit, Shift Nashville, Southern Movement Committee, Stand Up Nashville, Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition, The Equity Alliance

NashVillager Podcast: Welcome to budget season

Nina Cardona

November 13, 2024

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How does Metro make its money? Plus the local news for Nov. 13, 2024.

Filed Under: History, NashVillager Podcast, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Metro budget, Metro Government

Nashville’s Metro Council passes substitute budget with resounding support

Cynthia Abrams

June 18, 2024

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Nashville’s Metro Council approved the city’s spending plan Tuesday, unanimously voting in support of Metro Council Budget Chair Delishia Porterfield’s substitute budget.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: budgeting, city budgeting, construction, Delishia Porterfield, Freddie O'Connell, Metro budget, Nashville Metro Council

Cost-of-living adjustments, violence prevention programs and more: Metro Council ready to vote on budget

Cynthia Abrams

June 13, 2024

Metro employees could receive a bigger paycheck, if approved by Nashville’s Metro Council. A new alternative to the mayor’s budget also includes programs to prevent violence, help for residents facing evictions and more.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: budget, city budgeting, Freddie O'Connell, Metro budget, Nashville Metro Council

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