[mewzilla]

From last year...

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/city-of-houston/2023/06/08/453997/city-of-houston-approves-6-2-billion-budget-includes-employee-raises-funding-for-drainage-projects/

Look what comes first.

[mewzilla]

Buried in this link from last year...

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/city-of-houston/2023/07/31/457387/houston-will-face-a-budget-crisis-by-2025-unless-it-cuts-spending-next-year-city-controller-says/

“...This isn’t the first brush Houston has had with fiscal disaster in recent years. The city had underfunded its pension system for municipal workers by about $8 billion before enacting reforms in 2017. Brown said the current shortfall, while smaller, is more pressing...”

Reforms...

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Good one!

[Jane Long]

Yep ... you were right ... govt employee benies come first.

To be fair, this was the previous Mayor’s (Sylvester Turner) budget.

Whitmire is also a Dem, so, I don’t see too many actual improvements, to cutting spending, being made.