"Whitmire's trash fee proposal is a necessary first step…
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"Whitmire's trash fee proposal is a necessary first step toward fixing Houston’s finances"
The Houston Chronicle editorial board praises Mayor Whitmire's proposal for a trash fee, but has some questions about specifics. Here's a key quote:
>Adding a garbage fee probably won’t be popular. Previous mayors have floated the idea https://houstontx.gov/solidwaste/longrange/plan/2022_Plan_FullDocument.pdfin the past only to tiptoe away from it to avoid a political headache. But the mounting budget crisis in Houston calls for urgency. We’ve criticized Whitmire in the past for dancing around tough decisions such as raising the property tax rate or asking voters to lift the self-imposed property tax cap. A trash fee is the type of decisive, forward-thinking measure that can help ensure Houston’s long-term financial health, and we commend the mayor for putting it forward. This is the sort of hard but necessary decisionmaking we’ve seen from past mayors in the long, multi-administration effort to balance a structurally broken city budget, building on pension reform under Mayor Sylvester Turner and the drainage fee under Mayor Annise Parker.
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The Houston Chronicle editorial board praises Mayor Whitmire's proposal for a trash fee, but has some questions about specifics. Here's a key quote:
>Adding a garbage fee probably won’t be popular. Previous mayors have floated the idea https://houstontx.gov/solidwaste/longrange/plan/2022_Plan_FullDocument.pdfin the past only to tiptoe away from it to avoid a political headache. But the mounting budget crisis in Houston calls for urgency. We’ve criticized Whitmire in the past for dancing around tough decisions such as raising the property tax rate or asking voters to lift the self-imposed property tax cap. A trash fee is the type of decisive, forward-thinking measure that can help ensure Houston’s long-term financial health, and we commend the mayor for putting it forward. This is the sort of hard but necessary decisionmaking we’ve seen from past mayors in the long, multi-administration effort to balance a structurally broken city budget, building on pension reform under Mayor Sylvester Turner and the drainage fee under Mayor Annise Parker.
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