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John Whitmire: “The drainage fee was not being used for infrastructure…”

Featuring: John Whitmire, Nonpartisan | Mayor of Houston | Texas

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The State of Houston: A Conversation with Mayor John Whitmire

Published | Video Starts at 17:07

There's a time for that. But back to finances. We've got our arms around it. And then a lawsuit that I inherited. Jones and Watson, it said The drainage fee was not being used for infrastructure, drainage. They won in the Supreme Court. That added about another 120 million. So through a lot of hard work and experience, my finance director getting monies from Metro, we provide Metro for so much. (17:07–17:12)

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Asserts that the drainage fee was misused and not allocated for its intended purpose.

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