Hanna Holthaus
City Hall Reporter at Houston Landing
City Hall reporter @Hou_Landing ✍🏻 • Alumna @jaxdotcom @poynter • Always caffeinated ☕️• [email protected] 📩• Likes/RTs ≠ endorsements
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1 week ago |
houstonlanding.org | José Luis Martínez |Jose Martinez |José Martinez |Jose Martínez |Hanna Holthaus
Houston employees used city-issued credit cards to buy more than $41 million worth of goods in the past two years, but failed to document what was purchased in more than half of those transactions. In tens of thousands of cases, employees failed to include any description of what they purchased. In others, employees simply used “product” or even “generic product” to describe what they bought.
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2 weeks ago |
houstonlanding.org | Hanna Holthaus
More than 700 city of Houston employees are set to retire May 1 after accepting voluntary buyouts, city officials said Thursday. Many of the positions will have to be backfilled, but Whitmire administration officials said they anticipate saving more than $26 million annually in general fund dollars – and $48 million total – from the reduced staff.
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2 weeks ago |
houstonlanding.org | Hanna Holthaus |Eileen Grench
Mayor John Whitmire has made clear he intends to boost salaries and benefits for Houston police officers in their new union contract, but those increases will not be tied to performance. That means officers across all divisions can expect better pay and benefits regardless of whether crime goes up or response times slow down, clearance rates improve or traffic deaths increase.
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3 weeks ago |
houstonlanding.org | Hanna Holthaus
Houston is on track to spend even more on overtime than a city controller report projected earlier this week. The controller’s report, presented to council’s budget committee on Tuesday, said the city had budgeted $65 million for overtime in the fiscal year that ends June 30, but now is projected to spend $137 million on the extra pay.
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3 weeks ago |
houstonlanding.org | Hanna Holthaus
The city of Houston is expected to spend twice as much as it budgeted on overtime this year, contributing to next year’s projected $330 million deficit, the city controller’s office said Tuesday. Overtime costs for Houston police, fire and solid waste departments alone will collectively reach a 10-year high, Deputy City Controller Will Jones told City Council’s budget committee. The city budgeted $65 million in overtime across all departments this year.
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