The proposal will increase pay for police, fire, and municipal employees. It also bumps up the spending for the city's maintenance fund.
At $6.2 billion, Houston's proposed budget for the next fiscal year is just slightly smaller than the entire gross domestic product of Haiti and four times that of Belize.
But the proposal weighs heavily on COVID-19 relief funds, pushing how to pay for salaries and services onto the next mayor when Turner is term-limited at the end of this year. "As Council considers a new budget, we must prepare for robust revenue streams to normalize as federal stimulus dwindles," Brown said.
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