Houston City Council members have offered up budget amendments to give every firefighter...
Councilmember Letitia Plummer, right, defends an amendment during last year’s budget vote. City Council will meet Wednesday to take up the city’s budget for Fiscal Year 2023.Houston City Council members have offered up budget amendments to give every firefighter a $3,000 hazard pay bonus, implement a garbage fee to bolster the city's trash and recycling collections, and buy new chairs for City Hall’s chambers.
Budget amendments, although rarely adopted, represent one of council members' few opportunities to put relatively substantive recommendations up for a vote by their colleagues in Houston's strong-mayor form of government, in which the mayor controls what gets on the weekly agenda. Still, most amendments historically fail to win approval, and Turner has deployed a new strategy this year to keep the discussion limited to the operating budget: He is ruling everything else out of order.
The city uses Robert’s Rules of Order to govern its procedures, which says an amendment must be germane to the main motion on which council is voting, according to City Attorney Arturo Michel.
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