CITIZEN ALERT: Memphis Animal Services has received reports in the Berclair area of an individual posing as an MAS officer, attempting to take people’s pets. This Local Memphis story has all the information you need about confirming the identity of any of our officers.
If anyone comes to your house claiming they’re an animal control officer and says you must surrender your pet, check the following:
✔️ They are driving an official MAS vehicle with government tags
✔️ They are in official MAS uniform
✔️ They have a badge, city ID, radio, and safety gear.
If you question any officer’s legitimacy, you can always call 545-COPS to confirm the officer’s identity via their badge number.
We appreciated Mayor Strickland stopping by last night to talk about where Memphis has been and where we’re going. Good news about crime (down slightly), economic growth (up) and potholes (everywhere). There was a good Q&A session and the Mayor answered the questions candidly and honestly.
Great things are happening in Memphis and we’re glad to be a part.
Join us for the 2nd Annual Helping Hands + Helping Paws Volunteer & Support Fair, an event bringing together volunteers, fosters, and donors for animal rescue groups in Memphis!
Come out and visit with numerous animal support groups, who will each give a two-minute presentation on what they do and what they need. You can learn all the different ways you can help animals locally, whether that be through volunteering, fostering, adopting, donating, or other ways! Let’s all band together to help the animals!
This event is in collaboration with the Memphis Public Libraries and takes place at the Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library on Tuesday, February 26, from 7-9 p.m.
(February 20, 2019) – The Memphis City Council approved an increase in water rates Tuesday night. The increase takes effect March 2019 and will be in place through February next year.
MLGW customers will see their water bills increase an average of 45 cents per month. The measure will raise roughly $2.5 million and help cover a projected 2019 deficit in the utility’s water division.
The council rejected proposals to raise MLGW rates that would have helped fund a five-year plan to overhaul the utility’s aging infrastructure. The MLGW Board of Commissioners met today and ratified the council-approved increase in water rates.
Memphis Light, Gas and Water has received reports of two types of scam phone calls to customers.
One customer reports a scammer telling them to dial an 800 number to make payment or they would be disconnected. Upon calling the toll-free number, the customer got an automated message stating they had reached MLGW. Another MLGW customer reports a caller instructing her to go to a dollar store, add money to a debit card and call back for more instructions. While MLGW mails cut-off notices to customers and uses auto-dialers alerting them that payment must be made by a certain date to avoid cutoff,
MLGW service representatives do not personally call customers to request payment.
If you get such a call, you are urged to do the following:
• Hang up the phone. • Never give out personal financial information over the phone. • Call the MLGW Customer Care Center at 901-544-6549 if you have any concerns. • Report it to your local police station if you have been scammed. • Go to any of the five MLGW community business offices and speak with a credit counselor if you have problems paying your utility bill.
The Shelby County Trustee’s Office has released a list of convenient locations for property owners to pay their current and/or delinquent county property taxes. Additional seasonal payment centers will be located around the county February 19th through 28th.
“During the last days of February, the Trustee’s Office stays extremely busy helping taxpayers get their payments in before the deadline. We want to make it easier by having staff at our mobile locations to assist customers.”
Shelby County Trustee Regina Morrison Newman said. “We also welcome taxpayers paying online, through our mobile app payitShelby, or coming to our office downtown at 157 Poplar Avenue”
Taxes for the 2018 year can be paid without interest through February 28th but become delinquent on March 1. In addition to year-round satellite locations at Millington City Hall and Arlington Town Hall, there are seasonal offices at Germantown City Hall, Bartlett City Hall, Collierville Town Hall and Regions Bank in Whitehaven.
Memphis Light, Gas and Water will be holding several town hall meetings beginning Monday, February 11 through Friday, February 15.
These meetings are open to the public and will provide customers the opportunity to receive information about power outages, infrastructure updates, and proposed rate increases.
The first town hall meeting will be held at the Bert Ferguson Community Center, 8505 Trinity Rd., at 6 p.m. on Monday, February 11.
The remainder of the meetings are as follows:
Tuesday, February 12, Glenview Community Center, 1141 S. Barksdale, at 6 p.m.
Wednesday, February 13, Ed Rice Community Center, 2907 N. Watkins St., at 6 p.m.
Friday, February 15, Whitehaven Community Center, 4318 Graceland, at 5 p.m.
(January 11, 2019) – Memphis Light, Gas and Water is offering assistance to furloughed government employees by enacting our Hardship Policy for eligible customers.
Under this policy, furloughed employees experiencing temporary, financial hardship are able to make payment arrangements which can prevent an interruption in utility services.
For assistance, impacted customers should gather their furlough documentation and call 544-6549 or visit an MLGW Community Office.
