Houston City Council in a 14-0 vote with one absence approved its historic $1.5 billion settlement and labor contract with the Houston firefighter’s union covering years of back pay owed to firefighters, ending a nearly decade-long contract stalemate between the two entities.
Whitmire appears to be heading in the right direction as far as leading Houston but on the fire fighters issue he, Sylvester Turner and Mario Gallego were major players in allowing Texas cities to bankrupt themselves back in 2003 when they got the legislature to allow huge public pensions without regard for proving the finances of same.
The legislature's hands are dirty because they gave themselves oversight they never tended to. As long as the local governments had agreements with their unionized public constituents the legislators went along with the debt that was being created. If Texas ever goes democrat all of Texas will be paying for these under funded pensions created by the cities that did this.
I give kudos to the Houston firefighters for having the foresight to actually fund their pensions adequately in lieu of voting themselves higher pay with no regard for the future but I believe Sly successfully compromised their solvency didn't he?
Whitmire has spiked Metro and HAA with his people…now let’s “audit” Turner and send him to jail!
Whitmire appears to be heading in the right direction as far as leading Houston but on the fire fighters issue he, Sylvester Turner and Mario Gallego were major players in allowing Texas cities to bankrupt themselves back in 2003 when they got the legislature to allow huge public pensions without regard for proving the finances of same.
The legislature's hands are dirty because they gave themselves oversight they never tended to. As long as the local governments had agreements with their unionized public constituents the legislators went along with the debt that was being created. If Texas ever goes democrat all of Texas will be paying for these under funded pensions created by the cities that did this.
I give kudos to the Houston firefighters for having the foresight to actually fund their pensions adequately in lieu of voting themselves higher pay with no regard for the future but I believe Sly successfully compromised their solvency didn't he?