Back and forth over Harris County budget and tax rate continues after court meeting

Tuesday morning in Commissioners Court, for the second meeting in a row, the quorum was not met after commissioners Tom Ramsey and Jack Cagle were not in attendance, forcing a new tax rate to not be adopted.

. She said there was supposed to be an additional class of law enforcement officers and more prosecutors hired at the DA's office. However, for now, that is all in question."Starting Oct. 1, we are going to see the stoppage of flood control projects. We are going to see people not hired. We are going to see this hospital that is not opening its doors . Some folks may just leave because supposed to start in October. They can't anymore. They aren't just going to sit around.

"It takes money to run the county, and the county has grown by almost a quarter of a million people just in the past three years. Also, we're faced with the same inflation everybody else is faced with. So, the cost of the hospital district used to have has gone up. We need a greater budget just to provide the base services that we already provide," Hidalgo said.

Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)

That's two no-call no-shows. Grounds for termination basically anywhere.

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