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Mayor Whitmire outlines city challenges: water plant needs, suspended HPD cases and budget shortfall
Summary
At a Super Neighborhood Alliance meeting, Mayor John Whitmire described major infrastructure and public-safety challenges including a troubled East Side water plant, 260,000 suspended HPD cases and a reported $160 million shortfall the administration plans to address in an upcoming balanced budget.
Mayor John Whitmire told the Super Neighborhood Alliance on Tuesday that his administration is confronting long-standing infrastructure and public-safety problems and plans a balanced budget disclosure in about three weeks.
Whitmire said the city inherited “260,000 suspended HPD cases,” of which “about 80,000 of them were assault cases,” and that reviewing and prosecuting those files required removing officers from patrol. He also described a roughly $160,000,000 shortfall he encountered when taking office and said the city will lay out a balanced budget about May 1.
Why it matters: Whitmire framed the issues as long-running neglect that…
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