June 28, 2025 • 38 mins
Stan's guest was the Honorable Paul Young, Mayor of Memphis.
This morning Stan asked the tough questions and also took some of the listeners' calls. The Mayor responded and more importantly--he listened.
Enjoy this interview and listen intently.
This morning Stan asked the tough questions and also took some of the listeners' calls. The Mayor responded and more importantly--he listened.
Enjoy this interview and listen intently.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Memphis Boring and Brad walking the walk and talking and talk.
It's the Stan Belle Morning Show, weekday mornings from six
to ten am on the Heart and Soul of Memphis
ten seventy w d I A.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Yeah, we are the Heart and Soul of Memphis. AM
ten seventyu w d I A. Good morning everyone. You're
listening to stand special people spotlight on w d I
A every Friday. Somebody specially in the hot seat, I
mean in the in the seat and without a doubt,
the Honorable Paul Young, mayor Memphis, straight out of East
High School back in the day.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Talk about it, class.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Come on, he's never skinned shame in ninety seven.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
We used to make a big thing about ninety seven
because when I was on K ninety oh yeah, yeah,
I was trying to get over the East to do that.
Prom Irma Williams. You remembers MSUs I think she's lib
area man. Yeah, class that seven boomers man the basketball
team out standing.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Tony Harris, Yeah, state championship. We were in our junior year.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Hey, run that point under the coach.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Reginald reginal Mo Yes, great man.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Miter coach Turner.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
He's still around in Binghampton when we were doing the
Tilman Cove project three years ago. I don't know what
he was doing as a job, but I know he was.
He's still around the community.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Yes, man, Yeah is it. What's his name is?
Speaker 3 (01:21):
William? I just got coach.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Residents, the students. It just sticks with you. Yeah, man,
I'm telling you. Glad to have you. And of course
from East you went on.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
To University of Tennessee Knoxville, came back and went to
grad school here at University of Memphis.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
So from a fall Alanta Tiger.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yeah, rocket top, Yes, down to the bluff city. Yes,
the city of good Aboard. Speaking of which, Mayor, again,
we're glad to have you on the show. When you
talk about the good of Bode and I've been trying
to get that back on the radio, get that back
to become somewhat of a mount truck.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
You know.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Memphis, the city of good Abode. H. It's a nice
dwelling place. It is place, a nice place to live
and bring.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
A great place to live in. Memphis is a is
a cool city. It's a relaxing city. It's it's easy
living here. And I think more people need to understand
the cost of living is great compared to some of
these other cities. And certainly we have challenges and issues.
Nobody's shying away from that. But there are some really,
really good things about our city. And I think it's
(02:21):
time for us to begin talking more about the positivity
than some of the negativity, because I think sometimes we
run down the rabbit hole with you know, getting down
on ourselves, and I think it's time for us to,
you know, just just change the energy.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Speak of energy. Let's go to the phone lines. How
about that, sir, Let's just change over to folks who
want to talk to the mayor. I have no problem
with it. Hope you don't. Let's get let's let's go
delicately to the phone line. Some of you on the
radio is by the way, it's the Paul Young Shows,
the Mayor. It's the Mayor Paul Young Show featuring Stan Velleetan.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Please forgive me right quick. I just gotta say, man,
that makes this morning was off.
Speaker 6 (03:01):
The shame almost broke my.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Sorry about that. I just had to say this, mister
Paul Young, I'm doing just fine. Name select this caalytic
reduction technology. It memimize their mission, but pollution is still
getting in the earth. Look when when aad first got here,
they set up with no purpose, no pollution control, just
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pumping big things in the earth. And look, the reason
I'm saying is is because I know you're worre. It's
two rail yards over there to see in and the
c s I go to them offer and maam I'm
talking about I smelly.
Speaker 7 (03:37):
It makes me so sick.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
Sometimes I used to have to get up and eat
brothels before I have.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
To go over there.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
It would make me see Sometime I would have to
pull over and you know, just almost got up. It's crazy.
And you know, I love missus and man, when you
first started running, I swear I was one hundred percent
of your coin. And I'm gonna tell you know I
can't vote with it. I'm not a shame of you know.
But I took my I to the polls, my sister
law and my brother in law all to vote for you.
(04:03):
I got two sons, both of them college educator. I
made sure both of them go to college, one when
Christian brothers, one from TSU. But ma, ain't stuff going
on in this city. Sometimes I just sit back and think,
and people can talk about crime crime is everywhere. It
ain't just a message. We travel a lot, and like
you said, MESSI is a great city where you can get.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
You a good job.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
You know, everybody ain't ready for college. I won't ready
for college because I made sure my sons thought. But
you can come to missus and make a good living,
make you a good salary. You know, get out and
travel sometimes. But man, I'm gonna just say, man, heads
off to you. You know, you doing what you can.
But like I said, it's a lot going on. But man,
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you just keep your head up. Man, keep doing what
you're doing. And you know, I just say, just keep.
Speaker 7 (04:51):
You mand If I ever meet you, I want to
shake your hand.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
And I'm out in the public all the time. Man,
keep doing what you're doing. People on call and.
Speaker 6 (04:58):
Ragging or main.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
You know, they talked about Jesus Christ and they talking
about your Mary, y'all look you on they mind, they
thinking about Hey man, that's my time. I want both
you gut, be careful, be safe, keep your head on,
twilll and staying one more again. I'm sorry, but the
meeks got me going a good weekend.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Thank you gad this morning.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Man, Yes, sir, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
It's good to go back to the Crystal Palace everyone,
but thank you for those comments.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Definitely appreciated.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
I know that the XAI has been the topic of
conversation quite a bit. I want people to know and
understand that I'm definitely concerned about the environmental air quality
and all of those different issues, and so we're trying
to put the measures in place to measure what's actually
happening in the air because there's a lot of dialogue
around how much emissions is going out, but there's very
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little actual data. And so that's our next step is
get the data. The people that are responsible for are
the Health Department and as mayor. Obviously I answer all
of the questions, but it's not directly our responsibility on
the air quality issue. But you know, we want to
do everything we can to protect the community. We want
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to make sure that we make this project a win win.
You want to protect the health and we want to
get revenues that are going to be able to help
us solve problems. Because what I hear most are Mayor
help us clean up these streets, fix the roads, give
us more activity for our kids, find dollars to help
people fix up their homes. And those are the types
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of things that we want to take these revenues and do.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
All right, let's go back to the phone lines, man,
if you don't mind, don't the radio. Who's next? Yeah, Yes,
stunning team really mark us?
Speaker 6 (06:39):
Yes, and good morning to the mayor. Good morning, sir
Missta Young. I think you're doing that great job. I
appreciate you taking care of these streets. I see your
work on these streets here because you know, I've been
living in the city thin since two thousand and nine.
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I remember the conditional Park Avenue and I say park up,
and you know, and I think you're doing an excellent job.
I think also that another people put a lot of
pressure on you, you know, but this is a situation
where it has to be all hands on deck here,
(07:21):
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 8 (07:22):
The other day, when.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
You were on the BEV Johnson Show, you said something
before leaving the show. You said you spoke to the
Commissioner Police and she told you that four out of
the five homicides in Memphis are committed by people who.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Know each other.
Speaker 6 (07:39):
It's a people random people, it's people that know each other.
So I think it's incumbent and us too as citizens
that we need to do some self affection and self
examination of ourselves. How we can just put it as
you are one, you know, to solve all these problems
and our include with this. Also, Memphis is located in
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a strategic lo because it's located right in the.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Heart of the country.
Speaker 6 (08:11):
It's a port city.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
You see.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
That's why I think Phylix set up here in Memphis,
because you can't hit East West not sold. And I
think we should look internationally, know because you say Memphis
no to the world, you see, and we should probably
develop some trade reliationships with that continent here, you know
that because Africa, you know, at an international port city.
(08:38):
And mister Maya keep on doing what you're doing.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Yeah, well, well he's spot on in terms of thinking
about well he's spout on a couple of things, but
the part of the point around doing international trade, doing
some things with Africa. We've had some great meetings with
the country of Ghana and some of the things that
they're doing, they're really exciting stuff. Were working out some
sister city arrangements with some of the cities there. So
(09:04):
I think he's spot on on that and then the
overarching point that he made about everybody being a part
of the solution, I think is one of the things
that I want everybody to feel. There's a lot of
energy that's directed towards the mayor and all the things
that the mayor and the city council can do, but
there are things that people in our community can do
for everybody that's committing a crime in our community. They're
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coming in out of somebody's house. There's somebody's cousin, it's
somebody's nephew, and we need to start pouring into these
young people and giving them some different direction. And I
know all of them arek gonna listen, but if we
can get some of them to listen, we can reduce
what we're seeing in our community and make it a
safer place.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
So just spout on mare, thank you, on mayor.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Let me take a break, up against a break. We're
talking to the mayor. In today's edition of Standing Special
People Spotlight, Paul Young is in the building. Don't let
anyone touch a radio station. Be right back. Yeah, thanks
so much for staying here, And I know many of
you who get through these commercials. I appreciate your patience.
You know, because you know something. We got to pay
the bills. Man, you gotta pay the bills. Uh, that's
what's uping In case you just joined, I'm in the studio,
(10:05):
Live and Living Color. I asked the mayor to come by.
Is always a man of his word. He said, I'll
be there and I can stay too long, but he said,
I'm showing up and I appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Yeah, glad to be here, man, I'm excited. We gotta
do this regular.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Like energetic, optimistic mayor. Yeah, come on it. I know
it's how to get through. But I call your people,
buy people, call your people, and your people call us back.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
And he said.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
The man said, yes, we just got to lock it in.
We get the dates locked in. I'm good.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Yeah, yeah, that's true. That's true. I noticed that. Yeah,
it's a schedule.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Yeah, it's definitely.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
They told me. At the end, I think it was
Miss Hudson saying. He said, it's just like you staying
it's nice to be important, but it's more important to
be nice. The man says, yes, he's coming.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Yes, Miss Hudson said that indeed.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
All right, Okay, then can we take a few more
phone calls. Let's let's do it. Let's go here this way.
W G I he good morning on the radio. You're
on the air with the mayor.
Speaker 9 (10:57):
Good morning the morning. Lie absolutely. Instead, if I got
in this morning, it's just taken my breath away. I
wouldn't go buy me a lottery ticket, and I don't.
Good morning, Mayor Paul.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
How are you today? I'm great.
Speaker 9 (11:16):
I have a lot of respect for the young family,
Bishop William and your mom and many many years ago
you were a little be fella, you know, Aunt Harriet,
which I worked with her when she passed, when she died,
and yeah, so you know how many years and I
have a lot of respect and I have I have
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respect for you, and let me let me tell you
my take on things, and it's definitely not a bashing.
I came from the three one on nine area code
was down there in Walker Homes West Junction, Westwood. And
the problem that I have, and I'm sure that maybe
you did dot your eyes and cross your teeth with
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the X I.
Speaker 10 (12:02):
Have.
Speaker 9 (12:02):
The thing that gets me with the Boxtown area is
because when I was in the coming up in that.
Speaker 8 (12:08):
Area, the relative.
Speaker 9 (12:12):
The residents of Boxtown and of course at that time,
Westwood was a white neighborhood. So you know, we talked
many many years ago, and Boxtown had to deal with
the Allen Steam Plan. They uh poisoned that area and
they still have a recovery and the thing with the
x AI. And I know, Pastor Mayor of Paul, you're
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saying the emissions control the emissions are I don't know
the emissions. I know you're staying there within standards for
what I thought, what I have thought, And I have
went to Boxtown many many times. I visited that our
visits visited that area because there are residents. They are
two of them, its astronauts. These are older residents and
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Miss Sarah Gladney j L A. D Anyone.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
They're old.
Speaker 9 (13:00):
And when I say they can't sit on their porch,
mayor young, they cannot. They can't because of the fumes
that's coming into them. That's that's when I'm saying they can't,
and the respiratory. There's so many residents there. They can't
even go into their yard and plant flowers like they
used to because that was one of the joys and
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the luxuries that they had in those little small, dilapilated homes,
and I'm just saying it because they were proud of it.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
And what I have, what I have, what I have.
Speaker 9 (13:33):
Thought, Mayor Young the things that you're saying is coming
to the city of Memphis.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
That's fine.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
We we have to grow.
Speaker 9 (13:40):
But when you say that the direct impact of the
Box Town residents, why can't something be put in place
just for them, just for them, all of these dollars
that's coming in, not to generalize it, not to say
the city of Memphis, this particular thing is going to
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be for Boxtown residents. And I know you don't, don't
scream at me, but what I thought, why can't like
an insurance plan, a health insurance plan be put him
to place for those residents, those residents that meet a
certain criteria, give them health insurance for the rest of
their short life. And I know people are going to
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be screaming like no, no, no, But the people that
screaming no, no, no, half of them don't even know
where Boxtown is. And if they did know what they visited,
they will understand. Because I drove by the two lane
the building of the two lane area that Elon must
is building, that big right next to the school down there,
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the Freeman School. I took my grandson there because I
want him to understand and as he gets older, I
want him to understand it, to stand up for what's
right and what is wrong. But he had to have
it in him to know what's writing what's wrong, and
he's gonna make those character decisions.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
I'm going to get some he will comment on that
as well. Thank you for making a phone call.
Speaker 9 (15:03):
All right, Okay, thank you so much.
Speaker 6 (15:05):
I love y'all.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
I love you too, and thank you for those thoughtful comments.
And my goal is to do exactly what you just said,
is to find a way to make sure that this
project directly benefits the people of Boxtown. It's why I
have talked about an ordinance that has never been done
before in the city of Memphis. We never had a
project of this scale that's actually paying the full taxes.
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And because we have that opportunity, what we have put
in place is something that is different than has been
done before. What we're going to dedicate twenty five percent
of the tax revenues from this project that go to
the City of Memphis towards the area within five miles
of both of those facilities. Which means that Boxtown and
white Haven are going to be direct beneficiaries. We're going
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to put that money towards fixing up the homes. She
spoke about the dilapidated conditions of some of the homes
over there in three eight, one oh nine, sixty two
percent of the properties were built before nineteen sixty, And
when you have homes built before nineteen sixty, there's a
higher likelihood of having lead in the home because they
didn't regulate lead until nineteen seventy eight. So those are
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the types of things that we're going to be able
to invest in whether residents are going to be able
to have direct benefit as a result of the revenues
that are coming, not for the broader city of Memphis,
but directly for those residents that have been impacted not
by just this project, but many projects over the many years.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
She mentioned TVA. TVA had a cold.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Ash plant over in that community up until twenty eighteen,
and since twenty eighteen they have a gas plant, which
is better in terms of air quality, but it's pulling
six and a half million gallons of water from our
aquifer every day. Six and a half million gallons are
coming out every day. So in addition to the revenues
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that are coming from the taxes, we're going to have
the XAI owners build a gray water facility which is
going to save water for our city and for our community,
reducing the US by about nine percent per year. And
so those are some of the big wins that we're
looking for as we minimize the environmental air pollution. We
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want to make sure that we are getting as many
wins for the community as possible.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
All Right, there you go, Mayor. I appreciate that, and
I hope that those words were you. He answered your
question other words, I gotta take another breakup against a
break a black conservative. I forgive for Prince Charles, I'm
coming to you. We're talking to the honorable Paul Young,
Mayor of Memphis, Tennessee. And welcome back. Everybody is to
Paul Young show. Mayor Paul Young featuring stand Bille. I
just you know, it's kind of like May's featuring FRANKI Belt.
(17:46):
I decrease so you can increase, man. Let me tell you,
Mike Funnel, Yes, sir, yes, it's your show. Dot. So again,
thank you for being here. I know you're in waning moments.
You got things to do and all that, so we
want to get right into it. So I'm going to
ask my callers to keep your comments a little shorter
than usual so we can get as many as we
can for the mayor has to depart. Mayor before I
go to the phone lines, your thoughts about what Stephen
A talked about said, you know in terms of uh, yeah,
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you know NBA players whose young athletes or whatever don't
want to come to miss because of.
Speaker 11 (18:14):
The crime element. Well, I mean, you know, I don't know.
I don't know to talk in the NBA circles. But
obviously we're not Miami, we're not New York, we're not LA,
so we are a smaller market. And I think the
NBA players want to be in the big markets, and
so that's not a surprise that they want to be
in those markets. But I don't think he should be
coming down on a city that is the largest majority
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black city in the nation. Obviously we have challenges, but
we're turning the ship where where we're moving things in
a better direction, and I think he needs to be
a part of the solution as opposed to trying to,
you know, blast us on the national stage.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
So also in retrospect. Roland Martin came to the city. Yeah,
I guess for some junie teenth activities or whatever, and
he was a speaker somewhere, and he has some comments too.
I mean it could have been a wake up call.
I mean it was just some degree. But I always say,
it's not what you say, is how you say it.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Of words about that, Yeah, well, I only saw what
I saw, you know, the clip online because I wasn't
at the event. But I don't know that he has
the full context of what is actually happening here. But
I will say that we still have work to do
with regards to increasing minority contracting, getting more African Americans
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businesses grown to the point where they're thriving even more.
We're again the largest majority black city in the nation,
and I want that to be synonymous with black wealth
and achievement and all the positive aspects of African American life.
And so I take it as a challenge and a
challenge that you know, we want the whole community to
step up to. We want the business community to step
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up as well, because it's not enough to have great
numbers on the government contracting side, because the bulk of
business is done in the private sector, so you know,
we need those partnerships with our business actor so that
they're doing business with African American businesses in this community.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
All right, Maya, what are your plans to demo the
old coliseum and maybe put in a bigger stadium there,
you know?
Speaker 4 (20:11):
And you know, yeah, I had a meeting with a
group you know, just the other day and they were
talking about a plan which I think, if they're able
to pull it off, it would be very positive to
maintain the building. But I do think that we're getting
to the point where we gotta gotta gotta make a decision.
We can't just allow it to sit in its current state.
But as of right now, there is no decision that's
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been made. I think we will give them a shot
at seeing if they can pull together a plan to
get it reactivated in a in a different way. But
I think that we are coming to the point where
we're going to have to decide whether we keep it
or we demolish it and put something new in this place.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Let me ask you something else. Can we trust you
and other city officials to do us best with this
with our money, the taxpayer's money. Absolutely that you all
are putting into these different projects and what's coming into
the city. I guess it's the operative world with Can
we trust you? Absolutely? I mean everything I do is
for Memphis. Like I didn't get in this because I
want to be a lifelong politician. I really really don't.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
I want to do this job, and I want to
do it well, and I want the benefit of this
job to be for the people of our city. I
feel like I have been a good leader, and I
feel like I have made tough decisions, and there are
some tough things that are happening in our community. But
my goal is to navigate all of the challenges for
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the benefit of the people. Everything that I do is
so that the challenges that our people are dealing with
with crime, with roads, and you know, the way that
the condition of our roads, blight in our communities, all
of those things I want to see move in a
more positive direction. And so we're getting all the resources
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we can to try to address those things.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Okay, So are you familiar with the broken window theory?
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Okay, I'm sure I'm sure you are. You know, the
one that has the core idea that visible signs of
neglect like broken window it was a graffiti, trass litter,
you know, take a little lack of social control and
encouraged further crime. Now, as a visitor, folks who coming
in to see us Memphis and this blight man, yeah
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is prominent, taught us about that.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Yeah, I mean, it's one of our top priorities. So
you probably saw in the news just a couple of
weeks ago we finally acquired Summerset Apartments, which when I
was growing up it was called Lake Point because I
grew up right there. And Okay, and that property has
been blighted for the past fifteen years. There's been all
kinds of legal charades going on, and it wasn't until
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we came into office and we directed our legal team
to take a more aggressive posture that we ultimately got
the owner to donate the property to the city because
it was too much. There was too much pressure that
we were applying. And I've told our team, I want
to do this all over Memphis, because we cannot let
people come into our communities own these properties, let them
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get to the state where they're falling apart, and then
leaving our community holding the bag. They allow these properties
to be in those states, people are going in and
doing crazy things, committing crimes. We have to get them
out of their hands. And so blight is really big
on our radar, and I think you're gonna see a
lot more from us on that front.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
So in other words, you're gonna invest in infrastructure.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Absolutely investing in infrastructure and investing in the communities where
we are removing the blight and trying to put housing
and other assets for the community in its place.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
So how we're doing with the improvements of the airport,
how's that coming along?
Speaker 3 (23:41):
The airport is moving along.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
They're getting ready to start on the next phase, which
is gonna be the front part. You know, they did
the terminals, which have been upgraded over the last couple
of years. They're now getting ready to start the remodel
on the front. It's gonna be frustrating, it's gonna be
a lot of construction, but the final product is gonna beautiful.
And we're also having some good conversation with them about
how to address plow Boulevard, which is the road when
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you first come into the airport.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Coming down A Yeah, that has to be more attractive.
And you absolutely as people's first impression of our city
and we were around the airport.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Ye, and it's our welcome home when you live in
this city and you're coming back home and you're leaving,
like we want to make sure that it looks attractive
and welcoming.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Speaking of that environment and that kind of thing, Judge
Dandridge his office over in his courtroom, you plan expand
his court particular. Is that anything on the genda in
terms of environment He's still environmental.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
He's still the environmental Court judge.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
We're looking at some things that may allow us to
do things more administratively so that we didn't have to
We didn't have to We don't have to go to
court for every issue. But we certainly would like to
see more capacity because a lot of people talk about
colde enforcement and what we need, but what we ultimately
need is a way to get these cases moved forward.
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Our officers, our cold enforcement officers are going out, they're
doing this cs, but they get stuck in court for
a very long time.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Yet, do you have plans to add more personnel to
code enforcement?
Speaker 4 (25:07):
By chance, we are adding capacity, So we're not just
adding employees. We are having contractors that are going out
and doing some of the black remediation on their own.
So we added I think a million dollars to our
budget last year so that we can add these teams
of people that are going down major corridors. They're cutting grass,
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picking up trash, doing all the things that need to
be done so that those communities are cleaner. And ultimately
we certainly will add COLDE enforcement officers, but in this
year's budget we didn't add them.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Okay, speaking of officers, now, I'm going to ask you
this up, what do you think about patrol call cars
on every other corner of our memphistrys. Would you feel, say,
if you saw a cop on every corner on your
way home?
Speaker 4 (25:49):
Yeah, I mean it certainly certainly helps to have a
presence and have officers there. I don't know if we
had the capacity to have them at every other corner,
but as many corners as possible, having our officers out
and about, I think it is a very positive thing
for the community.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Right.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Yeah, So if you are a criminal, would you do
do a crime if you saw a couple in every corner?
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Yeah, You're less likely to do it. Now.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
You got some bold folks that to do it anyway,
And that just means we'll catch them quicker.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Yeah, speaking of that, catching the folks, I'm so glad
and thankful that the trespassing your area was called apprehended.
Thank you, yeah and charged. I guess about the ben
Foolice Department. How you doing after all.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
Of that, man, I'm doing good. I mean, you know,
the family shook up. Man, that that was crazy. You
don't you don't think of yourself as being a target
like that for somebody to try and harm your your family,
You or your family just just because you're doing this
hard work of loving on the city and working hard
for the city. And certainly there's going to be things
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that you disagree with as individuals, but it should never
go to violence. And it being on the heels of
what happened, Innut, it was literally the next day. What
happened in Minnesota happened on Sunday, and this was Sunday.
And you know, I won't go too much into the
story because I know it's still under investigation, but you know,
definitely keep keep the family in your prayers, certainly my
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wife and kids.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
All right, let's go delicately back to the fall line.
We're talking with the mayor of Memphis. The autible Paul
Young back to the Fall Lives we Go, don't come
on you in the radio. Thanks for waiting on the air.
Speaker 12 (27:21):
Yes, seremony until you stand more until you mister mayor, Yes, sir,
much respect to you, Mayor. My question is what enhancements,
if if any, are coming to the three eight one o.
Speaker 7 (27:36):
Six area, particularly the Slaughter.
Speaker 12 (27:38):
Street community and the Trig Trig community in that in
that area, I will hang up and listen.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Florida and Trig three eight one o six they that
that has been an area of focus for a number
of years, and we've been having some conversations with some
of the philanthropic groups in the city about how to
start an initiative over there where we can do more
to redevelop the housing in that area. There are a
lot of vacant lots and so we have the ability
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to be able to acquire those lots and start putting
housing on them. And so that is the broader strategy.
In terms of the timing, it's hard to say when
it will actually kick off because there's still a lot
of dialogue that's underway, but I can tell you that
is the focus is to acquire lots and do more
housing development there.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Thanks so much for that. Let's go to another call
and we're going to kind of wrap it up a
little bit with the mayor. Don't believe I come on
it in the radio. Yeah, Hey, great show, Baio, Thank you,
sir there, thank you.
Speaker 7 (28:40):
I want I just want to ask them there a couple.
Speaker 10 (28:43):
Questions real quick. Number one question, y'all was talking about
Takyla sandem. To me, you don't need to be towed
down and needs to be used house.
Speaker 7 (28:53):
Or whatever y'all want.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
To do with it, and don't need.
Speaker 7 (28:55):
To It's a landmark, man. I just don't understand why
we abud those and all these landmark issues in the city.
And that's just a shame.
Speaker 10 (29:05):
I mean, you know, I'm a baby bo. I'm pretty
sure you're probably a generation act so maybe a millennium.
Speaker 7 (29:10):
But I'm just saying these things that y'all are tearing down,
I'm not good for the city.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Yeah, I mean, I definitely understand the sentiment. That's why
it hadn't been torn down is because it's an important
landmark and we want to try and make sure that
we are giving it an opportunity for future life. But
it also has to make financial sense, and it's a
big costly building and it being used as an arena.
It's just not a likely scenario if if we reactivate
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the coliseum. It's not as if we will get more
concerts and events in our community because we're still competing
with the Lander Center and then also FedEx Forum, and
so you know, it's not adding a new asset where
we're going to attract more. And so what we want
to do is make sure that when we identify yous
for it, it's being used for something that is different
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than just trying to, you know, do concerts and events.
We want it to be a multi purpose venue where
there are businesses and other things that are located in
the facility. And you know, if that's not financially feasible,
then we'd have to do something to move on from
the property, because it's sitting there right now in a
blighted state.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
All right, thank you, man, Let me get on a
column that you can be on your way doubled the
I Good morning, thanks and waiting you on the radio?
What say you?
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Thanks?
Speaker 7 (30:30):
Good morning Stan.
Speaker 8 (30:31):
How are you and your college doing today?
Speaker 2 (30:33):
All right, morning man?
Speaker 8 (30:34):
Yeah, how are you doing?
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Mary y'all doing great. It's Prince Charles.
Speaker 8 (30:40):
One of your biggest limicis I just want you to
know that before I get started. Okay, you know, I've
been sitting here listening to you speak and a lot
of things that I agree in the Derek's Lord, things
that I disagree. You're talking about great leadership. I'm up
here saying to myself, I've been living in Memphis all
my life, and I have seen leadership from day one
and on the my and in my humble opinion, you're
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not showing great leadership toward toys in the city of Memphis.
And the reason why I say that because when you
came in, one of the first things you did with
the property down I don't know if you know on
averagees average citizen in Memphis makes about forty five to
fifty thousand dollars. That's the first thing you did that
kind of ticked me off. And then you talk about
you want us to trust you and your administration. How
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can we trust you when you're doing things to this magnitude.
Have you ever what I know you have? But you
know that Memphis is not one of these top cities
that you can drain blood from a turner. But that's
what you guys are doing. And you want to get on, Well,
I'm not going to say you particular, but people are
getting on Stephen A. Smith and Roland Martin Marlin.
Speaker 7 (31:43):
On what they said. Let me ask you a question.
Speaker 8 (31:46):
What they said was the true or was it not true?
Because I have lived here all my life. I see
crime every single day. I wake up every morning just
like you do when I turn on the television. We
got murders taking place here, killing taking place, a robbery
taking place it. We got a downtown area right now
that looks like who done it and what for? We
got some of the worst.
Speaker 5 (32:06):
Road I have ever tried traveled on.
Speaker 8 (32:09):
And I'm a eighteen rod truck driver and I have
never seen roads this bad. You want the Senior Memphis.
They were taking the money and doing everything right. I
could see, having no problems taking We got a black citamemer,
we got a black u Chelmy County mayor, we got
black politicians, and we're still behind the eight ball. And
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you said that you guys are doing a great job
on what planet you guys are doing a great job on,
because right here in the city of Memphis, you're not
doing anything.
Speaker 5 (32:38):
I am so frustrated.
Speaker 8 (32:39):
And then they asked the question, why is it that
so many people now are moving away from the city
of methods?
Speaker 2 (32:46):
All right, I appreciate it. Uh ma'yl young have words
on that. Let me says earlier about Steven A. Rolamar.
Let's get right to in the meat of the other.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
So, so the biggest point that they sound like he
had that objection on raising taxes, I want them to
think about all of the things that he just outlined
were wrong.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
With the city.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
We hadn't raised taxes in twelve years. So for twelve
years we hadn't increased taxes. The city was not growing,
and everything that we pay for was increasing. So if
you haven't raised taxes, then the level of investment in
the city is actually going down because you are able
to invest less because everything costs more. And we were
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facing a point where we were pulling so much from
our reserves we were going to be below the threshold
that the state requires. So leadership is not trying to
have saved political face and not raise taxes because it's
my first year and I'm a new politician. It's stepping
up and saying this is what we must do to
invest in Memphis and make it the city that it
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needs to be. And while I understand that it is
a city that doesn't have a lot of money, doesn't
have a lot of income, this is what it's going
to take to be able to make our city investable
for the outsiders to come in and put more money
into this city so that we can grow the market,
so that the people here can have more dollars in revenue.
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And so I understand his sentiment. I understand the frustration,
and you know, my goal is just keep working to
show and prove and address those challenges that he outlined.
If we're going to put more money into the roads,
if we're going to be able to create more vibrant
public spaces, all of those things take revenue, and in
order to get that revenue, you're gonna have to have it,
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have it tax dollars.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
All right, speaking of revenue and tax dollars. Can we
get an amusement park?
Speaker 4 (34:35):
And here may we actually have been doing some reach
out reaching out on the amusement parks, and that's something
that I would definitely love to be able to have.
We don't have any anything in the pipeline right now,
but we do have our economic development teams doing outreach
to the companies across the country to see how we
can get one in close proximity in Memphis or in
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very close proximity.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
All Right, you've covered a lot. I know it takes
more than an hour just to get the fast and
everything out, but I just appreciate the time that you
have carved, you know, for us to talk with you
this dialogue a little bit. All right, So well I'm
taking this last break. You come back to your final
vision what I mean, your final remarks and your vision,
and we're gonna be out like a scout the route.
(35:19):
Were talking to the Honorable Paul Young, mayor of this
great city. Be right back with his closing and our
final remarks and words. All right, we're back everybody. Yeah, man,
I've got a lot going on. Look, before the mayor
gets out of here, No, my linees is a lighting
up like a Christmas tree. And I get it. You
don't want to talk to a top citizen if you will,
But thank you those of you who have been calling
those you shot emails to me and stuff like that.
(35:40):
Definitely appreciate that. Before the mayor gets out here, I'm
gonna ask if he has any kind of you know,
any closing words as he departs, and you know, in
terms of going to the next place of responsibility, what's
on your mind, man, what can we looking forward to?
Speaker 3 (35:52):
Well, well, first, just let me say thank you for
allowing me to be here. I was really serious. I
want to come back.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
I think it's important to have these kinds of conversations
and cover the big issues and things that are happening
in the city. We're working hard on behalf of the residents.
We have all kinds of initiatives around public safety where
we're working to make this community safer. We talked a
little bit about blight and some of the big focus
on that effort. We're doing a lot of things with
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our young people. We have eighteen hundred kids that are
working this summer and we're looking to grow that number. Yeah,
I mean it's a big deal. And they're not just
working in city Hall. They're working all over the city.
We have them located in businesses that are stepped up
and raised their hand and said this kid can come
and be an intern here and the city's paying them
for it. But it's our way of making sure that
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we're engaging these young people, and so I want people
to start looking for the positive things that they can
talk about in this community.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
I think that the.
Speaker 4 (36:47):
Social media dialogue has just descended in a way that
I don't think is good for our community. And I
just asked the listeners to be those bright lights, be
those ambassadors are good for our city. We need some
people to start a speaking on the good stuff so
we can change up the energy and start shifting into
focus mode. Like what we're focused on growing the good
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things in our community. Because again, we're turning a very
very big ship. But it's gonna take each and every
one of us to do our part. Yeah, yeah, absolutely,
thank you. Mayor we love you. It may not, it
may be something who might not have quite as much
love as others, but you know it's still all love.
I mean, I think that's all love. Like we're gonna
we're gonna let you know how we feel. And I
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think that's important. That's why I'm here.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
I want it.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
Well say this to you, congratulations on job well done.
Thank you brother, and I know you got miles and
miles to go before you sleep. And as Robert Frost
would say, God bless you and your family. Uh, no
more issues. Hopefully you got to take care of keep
that security detail around you, Yes, sir, you know in
the middle around you each and every you know, every
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day man. And then of course you know that you
have our prayers, you and your family.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
Yes, sir, there you go. All right.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
I got to get ahead of myself. I know you've
got some stuff to do. I got some things to do.
Double di listener, I certainly appreciate you, mayor Paul Young
in the building again, thank you for being a part
of the morning show. Man. That's all right, all right,
thank you do w d I listeners, thank you so much.
Got to get out of here. Let's make the most
of this weekend.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
He's on and popping.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
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the Honorable Paul Young, mayor Memphis, straight out of East
High School back in the day.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Talk about it, class.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Come on, he's never skinned shame in ninety seven.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
We used to make a big thing about ninety seven
because when I was on K ninety oh yeah, yeah,
I was trying to get over the East to do that.
Prom Irma Williams. You remembers MSUs I think she's lib
area man. Yeah, class that seven boomers man the basketball
team out standing.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Tony Harris, Yeah, state championship. We were in our junior year.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Hey, run that point under the coach.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Reginald reginal Mo Yes, great man.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Miter coach Turner.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
He's still around in Binghampton when we were doing the
Tilman Cove project three years ago. I don't know what
he was doing as a job, but I know he was.
He's still around the community.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Yes, man, Yeah is it. What's his name is?
Speaker 3 (01:21):
William? I just got coach.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Residents, the students. It just sticks with you. Yeah, man,
I'm telling you. Glad to have you. And of course
from East you went on.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
To University of Tennessee Knoxville, came back and went to
grad school here at University of Memphis.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
So from a fall Alanta Tiger.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yeah, rocket top, Yes, down to the bluff city. Yes,
the city of good Aboard. Speaking of which, Mayor, again,
we're glad to have you on the show. When you
talk about the good of Bode and I've been trying
to get that back on the radio, get that back
to become somewhat of a mount truck.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
You know.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Memphis, the city of good Abode. H. It's a nice
dwelling place. It is place, a nice place to live
and bring.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
A great place to live in. Memphis is a is
a cool city. It's a relaxing city. It's it's easy
living here. And I think more people need to understand
the cost of living is great compared to some of
these other cities. And certainly we have challenges and issues.
Nobody's shying away from that. But there are some really,
really good things about our city. And I think it's
(02:21):
time for us to begin talking more about the positivity
than some of the negativity, because I think sometimes we
run down the rabbit hole with you know, getting down
on ourselves, and I think it's time for us to,
you know, just just change the energy.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Speak of energy. Let's go to the phone lines. How
about that, sir, Let's just change over to folks who
want to talk to the mayor. I have no problem
with it. Hope you don't. Let's get let's let's go
delicately to the phone line. Some of you on the
radio is by the way, it's the Paul Young Shows,
the Mayor. It's the Mayor Paul Young Show featuring Stan Velleetan.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Please forgive me right quick. I just gotta say, man,
that makes this morning was off.
Speaker 6 (03:01):
The shame almost broke my.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Sorry about that. I just had to say this, mister
Paul Young, I'm doing just fine. Name select this caalytic
reduction technology. It memimize their mission, but pollution is still
getting in the earth. Look when when aad first got here,
they set up with no purpose, no pollution control, just
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pumping big things in the earth. And look, the reason
I'm saying is is because I know you're worre. It's
two rail yards over there to see in and the
c s I go to them offer and maam I'm
talking about I smelly.
Speaker 7 (03:37):
It makes me so sick.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
Sometimes I used to have to get up and eat
brothels before I have.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
To go over there.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
It would make me see Sometime I would have to
pull over and you know, just almost got up. It's crazy.
And you know, I love missus and man, when you
first started running, I swear I was one hundred percent
of your coin. And I'm gonna tell you know I
can't vote with it. I'm not a shame of you know.
But I took my I to the polls, my sister
law and my brother in law all to vote for you.
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I got two sons, both of them college educator. I
made sure both of them go to college, one when
Christian brothers, one from TSU. But ma, ain't stuff going
on in this city. Sometimes I just sit back and think,
and people can talk about crime crime is everywhere. It
ain't just a message. We travel a lot, and like
you said, MESSI is a great city where you can get.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
You a good job.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
You know, everybody ain't ready for college. I won't ready
for college because I made sure my sons thought. But
you can come to missus and make a good living,
make you a good salary. You know, get out and
travel sometimes. But man, I'm gonna just say, man, heads
off to you. You know, you doing what you can.
But like I said, it's a lot going on. But man,
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you just keep your head up. Man, keep doing what
you're doing. And you know, I just say, just keep.
Speaker 7 (04:51):
You mand If I ever meet you, I want to
shake your hand.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
And I'm out in the public all the time. Man,
keep doing what you're doing. People on call and.
Speaker 6 (04:58):
Ragging or main.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
You know, they talked about Jesus Christ and they talking
about your Mary, y'all look you on they mind, they
thinking about Hey man, that's my time. I want both
you gut, be careful, be safe, keep your head on,
twilll and staying one more again. I'm sorry, but the
meeks got me going a good weekend.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Thank you gad this morning.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Man, Yes, sir, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
It's good to go back to the Crystal Palace everyone,
but thank you for those comments.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Definitely appreciated.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
I know that the XAI has been the topic of
conversation quite a bit. I want people to know and
understand that I'm definitely concerned about the environmental air quality
and all of those different issues, and so we're trying
to put the measures in place to measure what's actually
happening in the air because there's a lot of dialogue
around how much emissions is going out, but there's very
(05:47):
little actual data. And so that's our next step is
get the data. The people that are responsible for are
the Health Department and as mayor. Obviously I answer all
of the questions, but it's not directly our responsibility on
the air quality issue. But you know, we want to
do everything we can to protect the community. We want
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to make sure that we make this project a win win.
You want to protect the health and we want to
get revenues that are going to be able to help
us solve problems. Because what I hear most are Mayor
help us clean up these streets, fix the roads, give
us more activity for our kids, find dollars to help
people fix up their homes. And those are the types
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of things that we want to take these revenues and do.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
All right, let's go back to the phone lines, man,
if you don't mind, don't the radio. Who's next? Yeah, Yes,
stunning team really mark us?
Speaker 6 (06:39):
Yes, and good morning to the mayor. Good morning, sir
Missta Young. I think you're doing that great job. I
appreciate you taking care of these streets. I see your
work on these streets here because you know, I've been
living in the city thin since two thousand and nine.
(07:00):
I remember the conditional Park Avenue and I say park up,
and you know, and I think you're doing an excellent job.
I think also that another people put a lot of
pressure on you, you know, but this is a situation
where it has to be all hands on deck here,
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you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 8 (07:22):
The other day, when.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
You were on the BEV Johnson Show, you said something
before leaving the show. You said you spoke to the
Commissioner Police and she told you that four out of
the five homicides in Memphis are committed by people who.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Know each other.
Speaker 6 (07:39):
It's a people random people, it's people that know each other.
So I think it's incumbent and us too as citizens
that we need to do some self affection and self
examination of ourselves. How we can just put it as
you are one, you know, to solve all these problems
and our include with this. Also, Memphis is located in
(08:04):
a strategic lo because it's located right in the.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Heart of the country.
Speaker 6 (08:11):
It's a port city.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
You see.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
That's why I think Phylix set up here in Memphis,
because you can't hit East West not sold. And I
think we should look internationally, know because you say Memphis
no to the world, you see, and we should probably
develop some trade reliationships with that continent here, you know
that because Africa, you know, at an international port city.
(08:38):
And mister Maya keep on doing what you're doing.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Yeah, well, well he's spot on in terms of thinking
about well he's spout on a couple of things, but
the part of the point around doing international trade, doing
some things with Africa. We've had some great meetings with
the country of Ghana and some of the things that
they're doing, they're really exciting stuff. Were working out some
sister city arrangements with some of the cities there. So
(09:04):
I think he's spot on on that and then the
overarching point that he made about everybody being a part
of the solution, I think is one of the things
that I want everybody to feel. There's a lot of
energy that's directed towards the mayor and all the things
that the mayor and the city council can do, but
there are things that people in our community can do
for everybody that's committing a crime in our community. They're
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coming in out of somebody's house. There's somebody's cousin, it's
somebody's nephew, and we need to start pouring into these
young people and giving them some different direction. And I
know all of them arek gonna listen, but if we
can get some of them to listen, we can reduce
what we're seeing in our community and make it a
safer place.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
So just spout on mare, thank you, on mayor.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Let me take a break, up against a break. We're
talking to the mayor. In today's edition of Standing Special
People Spotlight, Paul Young is in the building. Don't let
anyone touch a radio station. Be right back. Yeah, thanks
so much for staying here, And I know many of
you who get through these commercials. I appreciate your patience.
You know, because you know something. We got to pay
the bills. Man, you gotta pay the bills. Uh, that's
what's uping In case you just joined, I'm in the studio,
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Live and Living Color. I asked the mayor to come by.
Is always a man of his word. He said, I'll
be there and I can stay too long, but he said,
I'm showing up and I appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Yeah, glad to be here, man, I'm excited. We gotta
do this regular.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Like energetic, optimistic mayor. Yeah, come on it. I know
it's how to get through. But I call your people,
buy people, call your people, and your people call us back.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
And he said.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
The man said, yes, we just got to lock it in.
We get the dates locked in. I'm good.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Yeah, yeah, that's true. That's true. I noticed that. Yeah,
it's a schedule.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Yeah, it's definitely.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
They told me. At the end, I think it was
Miss Hudson saying. He said, it's just like you staying
it's nice to be important, but it's more important to
be nice. The man says, yes, he's coming.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Yes, Miss Hudson said that indeed.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
All right, Okay, then can we take a few more
phone calls. Let's let's do it. Let's go here this way.
W G I he good morning on the radio. You're
on the air with the mayor.
Speaker 9 (10:57):
Good morning the morning. Lie absolutely. Instead, if I got
in this morning, it's just taken my breath away. I
wouldn't go buy me a lottery ticket, and I don't.
Good morning, Mayor Paul.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
How are you today? I'm great.
Speaker 9 (11:16):
I have a lot of respect for the young family,
Bishop William and your mom and many many years ago
you were a little be fella, you know, Aunt Harriet,
which I worked with her when she passed, when she died,
and yeah, so you know how many years and I
have a lot of respect and I have I have
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respect for you, and let me let me tell you
my take on things, and it's definitely not a bashing.
I came from the three one on nine area code
was down there in Walker Homes West Junction, Westwood. And
the problem that I have, and I'm sure that maybe
you did dot your eyes and cross your teeth with
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the X I.
Speaker 10 (12:02):
Have.
Speaker 9 (12:02):
The thing that gets me with the Boxtown area is
because when I was in the coming up in that.
Speaker 8 (12:08):
Area, the relative.
Speaker 9 (12:12):
The residents of Boxtown and of course at that time,
Westwood was a white neighborhood. So you know, we talked
many many years ago, and Boxtown had to deal with
the Allen Steam Plan. They uh poisoned that area and
they still have a recovery and the thing with the
x AI. And I know, Pastor Mayor of Paul, you're
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saying the emissions control the emissions are I don't know
the emissions. I know you're staying there within standards for
what I thought, what I have thought, And I have
went to Boxtown many many times. I visited that our
visits visited that area because there are residents. They are
two of them, its astronauts. These are older residents and
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Miss Sarah Gladney j L A. D Anyone.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
They're old.
Speaker 9 (13:00):
And when I say they can't sit on their porch,
mayor young, they cannot. They can't because of the fumes
that's coming into them. That's that's when I'm saying they can't,
and the respiratory. There's so many residents there. They can't
even go into their yard and plant flowers like they
used to because that was one of the joys and
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the luxuries that they had in those little small, dilapilated homes,
and I'm just saying it because they were proud of it.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
And what I have, what I have, what I have.
Speaker 9 (13:33):
Thought, Mayor Young the things that you're saying is coming
to the city of Memphis.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
That's fine.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
We we have to grow.
Speaker 9 (13:40):
But when you say that the direct impact of the
Box Town residents, why can't something be put in place
just for them, just for them, all of these dollars
that's coming in, not to generalize it, not to say
the city of Memphis, this particular thing is going to
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be for Boxtown residents. And I know you don't, don't
scream at me, but what I thought, why can't like
an insurance plan, a health insurance plan be put him
to place for those residents, those residents that meet a
certain criteria, give them health insurance for the rest of
their short life. And I know people are going to
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be screaming like no, no, no, But the people that
screaming no, no, no, half of them don't even know
where Boxtown is. And if they did know what they visited,
they will understand. Because I drove by the two lane
the building of the two lane area that Elon must
is building, that big right next to the school down there,
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the Freeman School. I took my grandson there because I
want him to understand and as he gets older, I
want him to understand it, to stand up for what's
right and what is wrong. But he had to have
it in him to know what's writing what's wrong, and
he's gonna make those character decisions.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
I'm going to get some he will comment on that
as well. Thank you for making a phone call.
Speaker 9 (15:03):
All right, Okay, thank you so much.
Speaker 6 (15:05):
I love y'all.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
I love you too, and thank you for those thoughtful comments.
And my goal is to do exactly what you just said,
is to find a way to make sure that this
project directly benefits the people of Boxtown. It's why I
have talked about an ordinance that has never been done
before in the city of Memphis. We never had a
project of this scale that's actually paying the full taxes.
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And because we have that opportunity, what we have put
in place is something that is different than has been
done before. What we're going to dedicate twenty five percent
of the tax revenues from this project that go to
the City of Memphis towards the area within five miles
of both of those facilities. Which means that Boxtown and
white Haven are going to be direct beneficiaries. We're going
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to put that money towards fixing up the homes. She
spoke about the dilapidated conditions of some of the homes
over there in three eight, one oh nine, sixty two
percent of the properties were built before nineteen sixty, And
when you have homes built before nineteen sixty, there's a
higher likelihood of having lead in the home because they
didn't regulate lead until nineteen seventy eight. So those are
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the types of things that we're going to be able
to invest in whether residents are going to be able
to have direct benefit as a result of the revenues
that are coming, not for the broader city of Memphis,
but directly for those residents that have been impacted not
by just this project, but many projects over the many years.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
She mentioned TVA. TVA had a cold.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Ash plant over in that community up until twenty eighteen,
and since twenty eighteen they have a gas plant, which
is better in terms of air quality, but it's pulling
six and a half million gallons of water from our
aquifer every day. Six and a half million gallons are
coming out every day. So in addition to the revenues
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that are coming from the taxes, we're going to have
the XAI owners build a gray water facility which is
going to save water for our city and for our community,
reducing the US by about nine percent per year. And
so those are some of the big wins that we're
looking for as we minimize the environmental air pollution. We
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want to make sure that we are getting as many
wins for the community as possible.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
All Right, there you go, Mayor. I appreciate that, and
I hope that those words were you. He answered your
question other words, I gotta take another breakup against a
break a black conservative. I forgive for Prince Charles, I'm
coming to you. We're talking to the honorable Paul Young,
Mayor of Memphis, Tennessee. And welcome back. Everybody is to
Paul Young show. Mayor Paul Young featuring stand Bille. I
just you know, it's kind of like May's featuring FRANKI Belt.
(17:46):
I decrease so you can increase, man. Let me tell you,
Mike Funnel, Yes, sir, yes, it's your show. Dot. So again,
thank you for being here. I know you're in waning moments.
You got things to do and all that, so we
want to get right into it. So I'm going to
ask my callers to keep your comments a little shorter
than usual so we can get as many as we
can for the mayor has to depart. Mayor before I
go to the phone lines, your thoughts about what Stephen
A talked about said, you know in terms of uh, yeah,
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you know NBA players whose young athletes or whatever don't
want to come to miss because of.
Speaker 11 (18:14):
The crime element. Well, I mean, you know, I don't know.
I don't know to talk in the NBA circles. But
obviously we're not Miami, we're not New York, we're not LA,
so we are a smaller market. And I think the
NBA players want to be in the big markets, and
so that's not a surprise that they want to be
in those markets. But I don't think he should be
coming down on a city that is the largest majority
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black city in the nation. Obviously we have challenges, but
we're turning the ship where where we're moving things in
a better direction, and I think he needs to be
a part of the solution as opposed to trying to,
you know, blast us on the national stage.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
So also in retrospect. Roland Martin came to the city. Yeah,
I guess for some junie teenth activities or whatever, and
he was a speaker somewhere, and he has some comments too.
I mean it could have been a wake up call.
I mean it was just some degree. But I always say,
it's not what you say, is how you say it.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Of words about that, Yeah, well, I only saw what
I saw, you know, the clip online because I wasn't
at the event. But I don't know that he has
the full context of what is actually happening here. But
I will say that we still have work to do
with regards to increasing minority contracting, getting more African Americans
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businesses grown to the point where they're thriving even more.
We're again the largest majority black city in the nation,
and I want that to be synonymous with black wealth
and achievement and all the positive aspects of African American life.
And so I take it as a challenge and a
challenge that you know, we want the whole community to
step up to. We want the business community to step
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up as well, because it's not enough to have great
numbers on the government contracting side, because the bulk of
business is done in the private sector, so you know,
we need those partnerships with our business actor so that
they're doing business with African American businesses in this community.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
All right, Maya, what are your plans to demo the
old coliseum and maybe put in a bigger stadium there,
you know?
Speaker 4 (20:11):
And you know, yeah, I had a meeting with a
group you know, just the other day and they were
talking about a plan which I think, if they're able
to pull it off, it would be very positive to
maintain the building. But I do think that we're getting
to the point where we gotta gotta gotta make a decision.
We can't just allow it to sit in its current state.
But as of right now, there is no decision that's
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been made. I think we will give them a shot
at seeing if they can pull together a plan to
get it reactivated in a in a different way. But
I think that we are coming to the point where
we're going to have to decide whether we keep it
or we demolish it and put something new in this place.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Let me ask you something else. Can we trust you
and other city officials to do us best with this
with our money, the taxpayer's money. Absolutely that you all
are putting into these different projects and what's coming into
the city. I guess it's the operative world with Can
we trust you? Absolutely? I mean everything I do is
for Memphis. Like I didn't get in this because I
want to be a lifelong politician. I really really don't.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
I want to do this job, and I want to
do it well, and I want the benefit of this
job to be for the people of our city. I
feel like I have been a good leader, and I
feel like I have made tough decisions, and there are
some tough things that are happening in our community. But
my goal is to navigate all of the challenges for
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the benefit of the people. Everything that I do is
so that the challenges that our people are dealing with
with crime, with roads, and you know, the way that
the condition of our roads, blight in our communities, all
of those things I want to see move in a
more positive direction. And so we're getting all the resources
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we can to try to address those things.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Okay, So are you familiar with the broken window theory?
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Okay, I'm sure I'm sure you are. You know, the
one that has the core idea that visible signs of
neglect like broken window it was a graffiti, trass litter,
you know, take a little lack of social control and
encouraged further crime. Now, as a visitor, folks who coming
in to see us Memphis and this blight man, yeah
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is prominent, taught us about that.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Yeah, I mean, it's one of our top priorities. So
you probably saw in the news just a couple of
weeks ago we finally acquired Summerset Apartments, which when I
was growing up it was called Lake Point because I
grew up right there. And Okay, and that property has
been blighted for the past fifteen years. There's been all
kinds of legal charades going on, and it wasn't until
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we came into office and we directed our legal team
to take a more aggressive posture that we ultimately got
the owner to donate the property to the city because
it was too much. There was too much pressure that
we were applying. And I've told our team, I want
to do this all over Memphis, because we cannot let
people come into our communities own these properties, let them
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get to the state where they're falling apart, and then
leaving our community holding the bag. They allow these properties
to be in those states, people are going in and
doing crazy things, committing crimes. We have to get them
out of their hands. And so blight is really big
on our radar, and I think you're gonna see a
lot more from us on that front.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
So in other words, you're gonna invest in infrastructure.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Absolutely investing in infrastructure and investing in the communities where
we are removing the blight and trying to put housing
and other assets for the community in its place.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
So how we're doing with the improvements of the airport,
how's that coming along?
Speaker 3 (23:41):
The airport is moving along.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
They're getting ready to start on the next phase, which
is gonna be the front part. You know, they did
the terminals, which have been upgraded over the last couple
of years. They're now getting ready to start the remodel
on the front. It's gonna be frustrating, it's gonna be
a lot of construction, but the final product is gonna beautiful.
And we're also having some good conversation with them about
how to address plow Boulevard, which is the road when
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you first come into the airport.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Coming down A Yeah, that has to be more attractive.
And you absolutely as people's first impression of our city
and we were around the airport.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Ye, and it's our welcome home when you live in
this city and you're coming back home and you're leaving,
like we want to make sure that it looks attractive
and welcoming.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Speaking of that environment and that kind of thing, Judge
Dandridge his office over in his courtroom, you plan expand
his court particular. Is that anything on the genda in
terms of environment He's still environmental.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
He's still the environmental Court judge.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
We're looking at some things that may allow us to
do things more administratively so that we didn't have to
We didn't have to We don't have to go to
court for every issue. But we certainly would like to
see more capacity because a lot of people talk about
colde enforcement and what we need, but what we ultimately
need is a way to get these cases moved forward.
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Our officers, our cold enforcement officers are going out, they're
doing this cs, but they get stuck in court for
a very long time.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Yet, do you have plans to add more personnel to
code enforcement?
Speaker 4 (25:07):
By chance, we are adding capacity, So we're not just
adding employees. We are having contractors that are going out
and doing some of the black remediation on their own.
So we added I think a million dollars to our
budget last year so that we can add these teams
of people that are going down major corridors. They're cutting grass,
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picking up trash, doing all the things that need to
be done so that those communities are cleaner. And ultimately
we certainly will add COLDE enforcement officers, but in this
year's budget we didn't add them.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Okay, speaking of officers, now, I'm going to ask you
this up, what do you think about patrol call cars
on every other corner of our memphistrys. Would you feel, say,
if you saw a cop on every corner on your
way home?
Speaker 4 (25:49):
Yeah, I mean it certainly certainly helps to have a
presence and have officers there. I don't know if we
had the capacity to have them at every other corner,
but as many corners as possible, having our officers out
and about, I think it is a very positive thing
for the community.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Right.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Yeah, So if you are a criminal, would you do
do a crime if you saw a couple in every corner?
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Yeah, You're less likely to do it. Now.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
You got some bold folks that to do it anyway,
And that just means we'll catch them quicker.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Yeah, speaking of that, catching the folks, I'm so glad
and thankful that the trespassing your area was called apprehended.
Thank you, yeah and charged. I guess about the ben
Foolice Department. How you doing after all.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
Of that, man, I'm doing good. I mean, you know,
the family shook up. Man, that that was crazy. You
don't you don't think of yourself as being a target
like that for somebody to try and harm your your family,
You or your family just just because you're doing this
hard work of loving on the city and working hard
for the city. And certainly there's going to be things
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that you disagree with as individuals, but it should never
go to violence. And it being on the heels of
what happened, Innut, it was literally the next day. What
happened in Minnesota happened on Sunday, and this was Sunday.
And you know, I won't go too much into the
story because I know it's still under investigation, but you know,
definitely keep keep the family in your prayers, certainly my
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wife and kids.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
All right, let's go delicately back to the fall line.
We're talking with the mayor of Memphis. The autible Paul
Young back to the Fall Lives we Go, don't come
on you in the radio. Thanks for waiting on the air.
Speaker 12 (27:21):
Yes, seremony until you stand more until you mister mayor, Yes, sir,
much respect to you, Mayor. My question is what enhancements,
if if any, are coming to the three eight one o.
Speaker 7 (27:36):
Six area, particularly the Slaughter.
Speaker 12 (27:38):
Street community and the Trig Trig community in that in
that area, I will hang up and listen.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Florida and Trig three eight one o six they that
that has been an area of focus for a number
of years, and we've been having some conversations with some
of the philanthropic groups in the city about how to
start an initiative over there where we can do more
to redevelop the housing in that area. There are a
lot of vacant lots and so we have the ability
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to be able to acquire those lots and start putting
housing on them. And so that is the broader strategy.
In terms of the timing, it's hard to say when
it will actually kick off because there's still a lot
of dialogue that's underway, but I can tell you that
is the focus is to acquire lots and do more
housing development there.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Thanks so much for that. Let's go to another call
and we're going to kind of wrap it up a
little bit with the mayor. Don't believe I come on
it in the radio. Yeah, Hey, great show, Baio, Thank you,
sir there, thank you.
Speaker 7 (28:40):
I want I just want to ask them there a couple.
Speaker 10 (28:43):
Questions real quick. Number one question, y'all was talking about
Takyla sandem. To me, you don't need to be towed
down and needs to be used house.
Speaker 7 (28:53):
Or whatever y'all want.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
To do with it, and don't need.
Speaker 7 (28:55):
To It's a landmark, man. I just don't understand why
we abud those and all these landmark issues in the city.
And that's just a shame.
Speaker 10 (29:05):
I mean, you know, I'm a baby bo. I'm pretty
sure you're probably a generation act so maybe a millennium.
Speaker 7 (29:10):
But I'm just saying these things that y'all are tearing down,
I'm not good for the city.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Yeah, I mean, I definitely understand the sentiment. That's why
it hadn't been torn down is because it's an important
landmark and we want to try and make sure that
we are giving it an opportunity for future life. But
it also has to make financial sense, and it's a
big costly building and it being used as an arena.
It's just not a likely scenario if if we reactivate
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the coliseum. It's not as if we will get more
concerts and events in our community because we're still competing
with the Lander Center and then also FedEx Forum, and
so you know, it's not adding a new asset where
we're going to attract more. And so what we want
to do is make sure that when we identify yous
for it, it's being used for something that is different
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than just trying to, you know, do concerts and events.
We want it to be a multi purpose venue where
there are businesses and other things that are located in
the facility. And you know, if that's not financially feasible,
then we'd have to do something to move on from
the property, because it's sitting there right now in a
blighted state.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
All right, thank you, man, Let me get on a
column that you can be on your way doubled the
I Good morning, thanks and waiting you on the radio?
What say you?
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Thanks?
Speaker 7 (30:30):
Good morning Stan.
Speaker 8 (30:31):
How are you and your college doing today?
Speaker 2 (30:33):
All right, morning man?
Speaker 8 (30:34):
Yeah, how are you doing?
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Mary y'all doing great. It's Prince Charles.
Speaker 8 (30:40):
One of your biggest limicis I just want you to
know that before I get started. Okay, you know, I've
been sitting here listening to you speak and a lot
of things that I agree in the Derek's Lord, things
that I disagree. You're talking about great leadership. I'm up
here saying to myself, I've been living in Memphis all
my life, and I have seen leadership from day one
and on the my and in my humble opinion, you're
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not showing great leadership toward toys in the city of Memphis.
And the reason why I say that because when you
came in, one of the first things you did with
the property down I don't know if you know on
averagees average citizen in Memphis makes about forty five to
fifty thousand dollars. That's the first thing you did that
kind of ticked me off. And then you talk about
you want us to trust you and your administration. How
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can we trust you when you're doing things to this magnitude.
Have you ever what I know you have? But you
know that Memphis is not one of these top cities
that you can drain blood from a turner. But that's
what you guys are doing. And you want to get on, Well,
I'm not going to say you particular, but people are
getting on Stephen A. Smith and Roland Martin Marlin.
Speaker 7 (31:43):
On what they said. Let me ask you a question.
Speaker 8 (31:46):
What they said was the true or was it not true?
Because I have lived here all my life. I see
crime every single day. I wake up every morning just
like you do when I turn on the television. We
got murders taking place here, killing taking place, a robbery
taking place it. We got a downtown area right now
that looks like who done it and what for? We
got some of the worst.
Speaker 5 (32:06):
Road I have ever tried traveled on.
Speaker 8 (32:09):
And I'm a eighteen rod truck driver and I have
never seen roads this bad. You want the Senior Memphis.
They were taking the money and doing everything right. I
could see, having no problems taking We got a black citamemer,
we got a black u Chelmy County mayor, we got
black politicians, and we're still behind the eight ball. And
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you said that you guys are doing a great job
on what planet you guys are doing a great job on,
because right here in the city of Memphis, you're not
doing anything.
Speaker 5 (32:38):
I am so frustrated.
Speaker 8 (32:39):
And then they asked the question, why is it that
so many people now are moving away from the city
of methods?
Speaker 2 (32:46):
All right, I appreciate it. Uh ma'yl young have words
on that. Let me says earlier about Steven A. Rolamar.
Let's get right to in the meat of the other.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
So, so the biggest point that they sound like he
had that objection on raising taxes, I want them to
think about all of the things that he just outlined
were wrong.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
With the city.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
We hadn't raised taxes in twelve years. So for twelve
years we hadn't increased taxes. The city was not growing,
and everything that we pay for was increasing. So if
you haven't raised taxes, then the level of investment in
the city is actually going down because you are able
to invest less because everything costs more. And we were
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facing a point where we were pulling so much from
our reserves we were going to be below the threshold
that the state requires. So leadership is not trying to
have saved political face and not raise taxes because it's
my first year and I'm a new politician. It's stepping
up and saying this is what we must do to
invest in Memphis and make it the city that it
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needs to be. And while I understand that it is
a city that doesn't have a lot of money, doesn't
have a lot of income, this is what it's going
to take to be able to make our city investable
for the outsiders to come in and put more money
into this city so that we can grow the market,
so that the people here can have more dollars in revenue.
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And so I understand his sentiment. I understand the frustration,
and you know, my goal is just keep working to
show and prove and address those challenges that he outlined.
If we're going to put more money into the roads,
if we're going to be able to create more vibrant
public spaces, all of those things take revenue, and in
order to get that revenue, you're gonna have to have it,
(34:31):
have it tax dollars.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
All right, speaking of revenue and tax dollars. Can we
get an amusement park?
Speaker 4 (34:35):
And here may we actually have been doing some reach
out reaching out on the amusement parks, and that's something
that I would definitely love to be able to have.
We don't have any anything in the pipeline right now,
but we do have our economic development teams doing outreach
to the companies across the country to see how we
can get one in close proximity in Memphis or in
(34:57):
very close proximity.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
All Right, you've covered a lot. I know it takes
more than an hour just to get the fast and
everything out, but I just appreciate the time that you
have carved, you know, for us to talk with you
this dialogue a little bit. All right, So well I'm
taking this last break. You come back to your final
vision what I mean, your final remarks and your vision,
and we're gonna be out like a scout the route.
(35:19):
Were talking to the Honorable Paul Young, mayor of this
great city. Be right back with his closing and our
final remarks and words. All right, we're back everybody. Yeah, man,
I've got a lot going on. Look, before the mayor
gets out of here, No, my linees is a lighting
up like a Christmas tree. And I get it. You
don't want to talk to a top citizen if you will,
But thank you those of you who have been calling
those you shot emails to me and stuff like that.
(35:40):
Definitely appreciate that. Before the mayor gets out here, I'm
gonna ask if he has any kind of you know,
any closing words as he departs, and you know, in
terms of going to the next place of responsibility, what's
on your mind, man, what can we looking forward to?
Speaker 3 (35:52):
Well, well, first, just let me say thank you for
allowing me to be here. I was really serious. I
want to come back.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
I think it's important to have these kinds of conversations
and cover the big issues and things that are happening
in the city. We're working hard on behalf of the residents.
We have all kinds of initiatives around public safety where
we're working to make this community safer. We talked a
little bit about blight and some of the big focus
on that effort. We're doing a lot of things with
(36:18):
our young people. We have eighteen hundred kids that are
working this summer and we're looking to grow that number. Yeah,
I mean it's a big deal. And they're not just
working in city Hall. They're working all over the city.
We have them located in businesses that are stepped up
and raised their hand and said this kid can come
and be an intern here and the city's paying them
for it. But it's our way of making sure that
(36:39):
we're engaging these young people, and so I want people
to start looking for the positive things that they can
talk about in this community.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
I think that the.
Speaker 4 (36:47):
Social media dialogue has just descended in a way that
I don't think is good for our community. And I
just asked the listeners to be those bright lights, be
those ambassadors are good for our city. We need some
people to start a speaking on the good stuff so
we can change up the energy and start shifting into
focus mode. Like what we're focused on growing the good
(37:08):
things in our community. Because again, we're turning a very
very big ship. But it's gonna take each and every
one of us to do our part. Yeah, yeah, absolutely,
thank you. Mayor we love you. It may not, it
may be something who might not have quite as much
love as others, but you know it's still all love.
I mean, I think that's all love. Like we're gonna
we're gonna let you know how we feel. And I
(37:30):
think that's important. That's why I'm here.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
I want it.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
Well say this to you, congratulations on job well done.
Thank you brother, and I know you got miles and
miles to go before you sleep. And as Robert Frost
would say, God bless you and your family. Uh, no
more issues. Hopefully you got to take care of keep
that security detail around you, Yes, sir, you know in
the middle around you each and every you know, every
(37:54):
day man. And then of course you know that you
have our prayers, you and your family.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
Yes, sir, there you go. All right.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
I got to get ahead of myself. I know you've
got some stuff to do. I got some things to do.
Double di listener, I certainly appreciate you, mayor Paul Young
in the building again, thank you for being a part
of the morning show. Man. That's all right, all right,
thank you do w d I listeners, thank you so much.
Got to get out of here. Let's make the most
of this weekend.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
He's on and popping.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
It's the Stan Belle Morning Show weekdays from six to
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