While John Whitmire goes around the networks bragging about his great job, some residents have not had their heavy trash picked up since August.
Whitmire blames the previous administration for his failure to keep his promises. The only promise he kept was to give the firefighters everything they wanted.
From Click2Houston:
“The city’s broke in the sense that the bills have been paid the last four years with federal funding that no longer exists,” Whitmire responded.
Whitmire explained a lot of the money paying the city’s bills has come from federal funding that has since dried up.
“So if you take that federal funding, one time federal funding out of the general revenue, we don’t have enough money unless, unless, we have better management,” he said. “And that’s my job is to collaborate with all levels of government. We represent the same people. We’re going to go to Austin and ask for assistance with some revenue sources.
But don’t take my word for it; read what the Chronicle has about Whitmire’s promises. One has to read between the lines to know what a failure his first year has been. For instance, under police, there are 20 more officers than a year ago. They counted the candidate classes but did not know how many officers had left the city. Under debt, we are about 100 million dollars more in debt because of his negotiations with the firemen/women.
How he was going to get the state to help is more BS or self-deception by John Whitmire from the Chronicle.
From a blogger that I believe was on his campaign payroll;
I don’t know about you, but I am ready to leave 2024 behind. I can say that H-Town Mayor John Whitmire had a very good first year in office. He sent out his list of 2024 accomplishments yesterday. He got the deal with H-Town firefighters done. He got the water department billing mess under control. He is sorting through the case backload mess over at the police department. He is in the process of cleaning up the Housing Authority mess. He is not kicking cans down the road.
Whitmire keeps blaming judges for crime, will he ever have anything that says the buck stops with him?
Mayor Whitmire said something he will be speaking out more about in 2025 is the low bonds offenders are getting once they are arrested.
“HPD officers arresting bad actors, dangerous actors, repeat felons. Take them over to the courthouse. And many times they get a personal recognition bond. They get a very low monetary bond and they’re back out on the streets,” he said. “So we arrest folks. With our hardworking HPD officers, they take them to intake often. Oftentimes, they’re given a low bond. They’re released within 24 hours.”
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Residents in northwest neighborhoods said they are hopeful will end months of pick up delays.
“If we leave it out here, well, A, it looks bad, B, you know, you have animals going in and out and then it starts getting everywhere in the neighbor’s yard,” Vincenzo Loffredo, who lives in the Spring Branch area, told KHOU 11. “So just it’s not a good look and it’s not, I guess, healthy for the environment either.”
Loffredo said the heavy trash and debris has not been picked up since August for him and his neighbors. That’s left them to deal with the issue in other ways, including paying private companies to take some of it away or store some of the heavy trash in garages.