First off, Lina explained she had to leave for DC to see if she could obtain more federal aid for the catastrophic disaster, and turned over the meeting to Rodney Ellis.
Commissioner Tom Ramsey from Precinct 3 started the meeting off with a powerful and impactful speech. Which all should hear, thank you to Charles Blaine of Urban Reform for screen grabbing this video.
Interesting tid bit: one of Lina Hidalgo’s staffers, Aaron Dunn was moved to the flood department even though he had no engineering degree and received a pay raise
In a speech given by Lesley Briones, she mentions that the county’s population has risen 40% “since 2020” and due to inflation, a flood bond and raising taxes seems to be a responsible factor.. I am sure this has nothing to do with Houston being a SANCTUARY CITY and Biden open borders…
In a 4-1 vote, Harris County officials approved a RFP to allow a toll road employee to go to Belgium for a bike marathon in which Rodney Ellis will be attending as well
So while our constituents safety is in peril, the county decided to raise the constable fund taxes, and it turns out they profit from it….
Back in December of last year, I was searching for DEMA and found that our Health Director, Barbie Robinson had brought on Dema to Sonoma during COVID and did the same here after being installed as Harris Health Director. commissioner Tom Ramsey brought this subject of the audit up, but the item passed.
County pushes back because they don’t want “law enforcement agencies involved in the holistic approach” Even though stats had previously shown that the CORE program was just as effective. It will be interesting to see how the county attorney handles this situation and who the third party auditors are…
The county has spent at least $100’s of millions to outsource inmates to private prisons. This issue has been going on for years. See date and cost:
Tell me, do you trust these officials to run our government? It seems to me like they’re intentionally bankrupting us, and planning on raising taxes in order to get kickbacks and enrich their buddies instead of caring for their constituents.
so sad. seems must either defeat these looters or flee
Little known development from last weeks “disaster”, I believe that disaster declaration allows Harris County and City of Houston to raise their property tax rate this year higher than the normal without voter approval under state law. So they can raise taxes more in October without voter approval