Sunday morning with the Mayor - What's Your Point?

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At a recent Houston city council meeting, Controller Chris Hollins said, "We all know the high-level math on this is its upwards of a billion dollars of financial impact for the city and it’s my responsibility at a baseline level understand what's going on in it before putting it forward to you."

 Houston Controller Chris Hollins insisting on more time to review terms of a negotiated labor settlement between the city of Houston and its long-suffering firefighters - I say long-suffering because as we've consistently reported - these brave first-responders have been serving without a contract for eight brutal years.

Enter Mayor John Whitmire who almost immediately sat down at the table and hammered out a deal - $650 million for over-due back pay - five years of structured pay hikes and benefits moving forward to get Houston Fire Department competitive with other departments - and stop nearly a decade of destructive attrition.

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"I didn't come here to rubber stamp Sylvester Turner's programs. Some are better than others. I am being driven by data."   Houston Mayor John Whitmire discussing the deal reached on the high-profile Shepard Durham mobility project.  The mayor has also expressed concerns over the unintended consequences of accepting federal funds with "strings attached".

After the interview with the Mayor I sat with the What's Your Point? panel for their feedback.