Never let a crisis go to waste [NewsChannel5] Mayor John Cooper filed his recommended budget for the 2021 fiscal year with Metro Council. The $2.447 billion budget includes raising the city's property tax by almost 32% to recover from the financial impact of the March tornado and the COVID-19 shutdown.
"While this budget does not include the many new investments I had hoped to make in a full deployment of body cameras, affordable housing, transportation, social and emotional learning, and much more, this budget will provide needed financial stability to Metro Government," said Mayor Cooper. "Nashville's growth will return once again, our economy will flourish as it did before the storm, and we will not lose sight of the good work we've set out to do on behalf of all Nashvillians."