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John Whitmire: “We had a incentive program for people to retire. 1056…”

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

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Mayor John Whitmire on Houston's Problems, Power & What Comes Next | SWIMMING WITH THE SHARKS #13

Published | Video Starts at 17:59

We're transforming City Hall. You know, we did an Ernst and Young report and they said we had more city employees than any other major city per capita 23,000. So We had a incentive program for people to retire. 1056 retired. We picked up $100 million toward our budget. So we're doing some amazing things. I get frustrated that it's not a good mechanism to tell everybody. First of all, I run out of. I don't go around talk about myself. (17:59–18:10)

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Asserts that a retirement incentive program led to 1,056 retirements and $100 million savings.

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