Houston priorities: Clinton Climate Initiative before flooding
Last week, Texas Watchdog noted that Houston was one of many cities submitting a bailout wish list to the feds:
The two biggest items the city says it needs federal tax dollars for are:
+A city-wide flood control program. That comes to $221 million and 4,420 jobs.
+Infrastructure improvements to make way for the Metro Houston Intermodal Terminal near downtown. That’s a project priced at $175 million wih 4,870 new jobs.
In all, Houston is asking for $587.7 million in projects that the city says will create 12,500 jobs.
You may recall that the city recently decided to scale back $100 million-worth of infrastructure improvements due to the credit crisis.
In other city news, the mayor announced that 11 million square feet of city buildings will be retrofitted to meet the Clinton Climate Initiative's Energy Efficiency program standards.
Posted by Anne Linehan @ 12/15/08 06:43 PM | Print |
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