Mayor White's Houston infrastructure plan
KHOU-11 has a story up about Mayor White's five-year plan for Houston's infrastructure:
It is not about the everyday expenses the city pays out, but instead what the city calls its big-ticket items.
It takes about 1,000 pages to explain all of it, so here are a few of the bigger projects:
The mayor wants to add $45 million to clean up neighborhood drains. He said a northeast Houston area near Chatham Elementary is a good example of a big flooding problem. If you were around during Allison you know a lot of the drains couldn't even come close to meeting the challenge of a tropical storm.
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Another major expenditure will go towards all the abandoned properties the city continues to tear down. The mayor wants to increase the amount of funding going towards developer reimbursement programs by 20 percent. The idea is to encourage builders to create affordable housing in the place of empty eyesores.
A third big chunk of money will go towards public safety.
"People who have been, violated the law can be taken to a facility, which is modern and complies with the Constitution and obtains economies by centralizing the jail responsibilities in agreement with Harris County.
I don't see a press release or a link to the report on the city's website yet, but when it shows up, I'll add an update.
UPDATE: Here's a brief KUHF-88.7 story on the mayor's announcement.
UPDATE (06-21-2005): The plan is now on the city's website.
Posted by Anne Linehan @ 06/20/05 02:24 PM | Houston Politics | Print | Comments (3)
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