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Via the Houston Business Journal we see that sales tax revenues are flowing in quite nicely:
Houston received a sales tax allocation of $35.7 million for April, a 13.5 percent increase over April 2006. Houston's Metropolitan Transit Authority received $36.2 million, an 11.5 percent increase over the previous year, and one of the highest transit allocations for April.
So far this calendar year, sales tax allocations to local governments are up 6.4 percent.
No wonder Metro is confident enough to be venturing into the real estate market!
Meanwhile, with the city raking in lots of money and sitting on a surplus (last we heard), HPD has started a program where citizens can report petty crimes online (via KUHF-88.7):
Houston Police Chief Harold Hurtt says they came up with the online reporting in an effort to save police man hours. Each report made online will save about 60 minutes of officer time.
"We think that if we can cut the number of responses to these types of reports in half, we will save about 50,000 man hours a year. Which equates to about 48 full-time employees."
That's good news for a heavily overburdened and stretched police force. Officers will no longer go to the scene, take testimony and file a report by hand.
That means on weekends Chief Hurtt will be able to keep an eye on "minor" crimes from his home in Phoenix, just by logging on. And wait 'til HPD expands the online crime reporting -- Chief Hurtt can stay in Phoenix seven days a week!
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