Shelby Clerk Office revenue numbers fall short of funding project [Video]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Shelby County Clerk’s Office, collected over $8.7 million throughout last year as a result of last year’s $25 wheel-tax increase, falling short of funding goals for Regional One hospital renovations and two new high schools.

This is according to updated and corrected monthly revenue reports from Shelby County Clerk Wanda Halbert, released Tuesday by County’s Trustee Regina Newman and approved by the Tennessee Comptroller’s office.

“I don’t know where the Wheel Tax goes because we know it ain’t going on roads,” Shelby County driver Claudia told ABC24. “I don’t know how it got so bad. It doesn’t seem to be any accounting, accounting in the sense that this is going here, and this is going here.”

The Shelby County Clerk’s Office is the …