Given an invite to share thoughts about Nashville’s spending priorities, residents turned out for Tuesday night’s Metro Council meeting.
Breaking down Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell’s $514M capital spending plan
The plan’s top investments include education and city maintenance — such as upgrades to fire stations, libraries and greenways. It also devotes around $39 million to transit needs and $25 million toward early investments into the East Bank development.
hubNashville launched 7 years ago. Here’s how Metro’s customer service system has evolved over time.
Metro customer services hinges largely on hubNashville, a system where residents can place a huge range of requests. Its usage has tripled in the past five years.
Nashville sued the state four times last year. Here’s where those lawsuits stand today.
The state approved at least seven preemption laws. The city filed lawsuits against four: an attempt to reduce the size of Metro Council by half, the undoing of a charter referendum pertaining to the fairgrounds racetrack demolition and overhauls of the Airport and Sports Authority boards.
After a dramatic 2023 for Nashville’s city government, what’s next in 2024?
As 2023 nears its end, WPLN is looking back at some of its biggest stories of the last year. And, for Nashville’s city government, there is no shortage of pivotal moments — many of which will ripple into the new year, with the new administration.
By rejecting contract for new Tasers, Nashville’s city council teases a new approach on police funding
“MNPD is the only department that we have refused to say ‘no’ to, and we treat them as if they have unfettered access to the coffers,” said Councilmember Delishia Porterfield.
Nashville’s Metro Council calls on the state to continue accepting federal education funds
Nashville’s Metro Council passed a resolution Tuesday recommending that the state continue to accept federal education funding.
Nashville’s participatory budgeting process — meant to give residents more say over city spending — is at a crossroads.
For the first time, a Nashville program known as “participatory budgeting” has gone citywide, giving residents a say in how to spend $10 million. But, as residents cast their ballots, the program has encountered several hurdles.
Nashville invests in women and minority owned businesses. But proposed spending is dwindling.
The city of Nashville is dedicating $111 million for minority and women-owned businesses. City officials are touting their approach, while acknowledging that the number is down significantly from previous years.
You hold the purse strings: Nashvillians can vote now on 35 neighborhood projects vying for funding
Voting is open for Davidson County residents who want a say in how to spend $10 million in the city’s expanded “participatory budgeting” process.