SAFEclear costs go up up up!
In his reporting on city controller Annise Parker's planned audit of the SAFEclear program last week, KHOU-11's Doug Miller noted that the mayor's estimated cost of the program had shot up to $1.5 million, from an earlier $900,000 estimate.
Miller's reporting also included this tidbit:
The mayor said that the controller's decision to conduct an audit was great, but there is clearly some tension. The mayor's staff thinks the controller is implying that Mayor White is somehow withholding information from City Council.
KTRH-740 reported earlier today that an HPD estimate of the cost of SAFEclear for the year had shot up to $2.5 million.
KTRH further reported another estimate put the cost at roughly $2 million, a figure that KPRC-2 is reporting:
The City of Houston expects to spend $2.1 million on the program this year.
So, just since Annise Parker announced an audit of SAFEclear, we have two estimates of the costs of the program that are dramatically higher than what Mayor White has provided (and Mayor White's own estimates just keep getting revised upward). Lest any of the mayor's staff accuse blogHOUSTON of "implying" anything about their boss, we'll just suggest that's an interesting confluence of events.
We'll be looking forward to the controller's numbers.
UPDATE (06-09-2005) According to reporting by Matt Stiles for the Chronicle, Council was told yesterday that the cost of SAFEclear next year will be $3 million!
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 06/08/05 05:43 PM | Houston Transit | Print | Comments (14)
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