A Memphis City Council effort to fund a campaign for a trio of ballot questions can advance after surviving a legal challenge a week before Election Day, a court chancellor said.

"Both sides just want a fair advantage for the next eight days before the election," Chancery Court Chancellor Jim Kyle said Tuesday, before dismissing the suit Save IRV, Inc. filed against the council last week.

The Memphis City Council voted 5-3 last week to fund a "public information campaign" on the three charter amendment questions being posed to voters on the Nov. 6 ballot. That council move came nearly a week after early voting had started.

The questions ask Memphis voters if they want City Council term limits to be three consecutive four-year terms, which adds a term to their current cap. Voters are also slated to weigh in on repealing instant runoff voting, and whether runoff elections should be eliminated entirely for single City Council districts.

Attorney Bryce Ashby, who represented the Save IRV group, argued City Council members shouldn't be using taxpayer dollars to push a stance on ballot questions that could lengthen their political careers.

City Council attorney Allan Wade argued the pro-instant runoff voting group shouldn't have a "monopoly" on lobbying the public before they cast their votes.

"We have to sit silent while they pollute the airwaves with all this nonsense," Wade said.

City Council Chairman Berlin Boyd said last week there is up to $40,000 in a council general fund, some of which could be used for the campaign.

Memphis voters overwhelmingly approved instant runoff voting, or ranked choice voting, a decade ago. If voters don't repeal this year, instant runoff voting would be used during the 2019 city elections.

The trio of ballot questions already survived a legal challenge by the group Save IRV Memphis earlier this month, which argued the questions were misleading and worded to be intentionally deceptive.

Jamie Munks covers Memphis city government and politics for The Commercial Appeal. She can be reached at jamie.munks@commercialappeal.com or 901-529-2536. Follow her on Twitter @journo_jamie_.