FarmerJohn said:

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It's that a Jack Cagle gif?

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JFC watching that small clip of her hissy fit is so dumb - what a child

Her voice irks the sh*t out of me

FarmerJohn said:

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It's that a Jack Cagle gif?

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I think it's some tv show that I'll probably watch in about 5 years when it's over and on Netflix.

94chem said:

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FarmerJohn said:

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It's that a Jack Cagle gif?

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I think it's some tv show that I'll probably watch in about 5 years when it's over and on Netflix.

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Joking, right?

I was joking.

Ducks4brkfast said:

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94chem said:

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FarmerJohn said:

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It's that a Jack Cagle gif?

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I think it's some tv show that I'll probably watch in about 5 years when it's over and on Netflix.

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Joking, right?

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Nope. No clue what that is. I Googled it and it appeared to be an HBO show I haven't seen. I don't have HBO. I wish I did because the Cherbobyl series was on there and I never got to finish it when my plane landed. But I did read the book.

Court voted behind closed doors to approve a 38% raise for the HCTRA Director who is now the highest paid employee in the county making a cool $485k.

Havent been following them closely the last year. But was told to tune in yesterday and I caught some of the proceedings.

First, they waste an enormous amount of time on resolutions. They start at 10am and didn't beging to discuss county business until 3pm.

First take away is they have massive budget issues. But not clear on how this suddenly became an issue.

Second, the county engineer is on the hot seat over Drainage programs. Inflation really brought in cost overruns and they didn't adjust. Commissioners were visibly unhappy. Plus I hear that department is a wreck.

And thats sort of the last I saw. Will have to watch the recording because I beleieve they're going to try to sue the fed over grants but if federal funds are drying up they're going to have issues. In addition, all the COVID cash is ending and they now have to decide what to do with all these new departments and staff. Ideally they should just end with RIFS but who knows.

This will be hugely important when it comes time to set the tax rate as the emergency tax should end and anything over a 3.5% increase incurs a rollback election. Let's see if they demand tax payers vote a larger increase on themselves.

Thunder18 said:

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Court voted behind closed doors to approve a 38% raise for the HCTRA Director who is now the highest paid employee in the county making a cool $485k.

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Roberto Trevino?

Odd bump from a year ago, but yes

No just a casualty that last year's posts were almost exactly a year ago. And I forgot what year it was.

ChipFTAC01 said:

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No just a casualty that last year's posts were almost exactly a year ago. And I forgot what year it was.

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It tripped me up when I went back and looked at my own post from last year.

I had to Google find this thread, no idea it had been a year.

Rewatching. Around 3:20 theyre ripping open the county engineer because they've totally screwed up the Harvey Flood Bond, and now Hildago is saying they need another flood bond.

Re: regarding the Subdivision Drainage Program

All the commissioners are pointing the finger at ENG, FC, County Administrator.

AlaskanAg99 said:

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Hildago is saying they need another flood bond.

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Quote:

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Around 3:20 theyre ripping open the county engineer because they've totally screwed up the Harvey Flood Bond, and now Hildago is saying they need another flood bond.

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Too bad she spent her first term trying to run off any and every competent and experienced employee who might have known what to do with it.

*I just remembered this ReduceFlooding blogpost from a couple years about about the "brain drain" in Harris County gov't. It's from 2022, so there's been even more turnover since he wrote this, all pushed by Lina and the Dem commissioners. And this article mostly focuses on department heads, so it's scratching the surface on the engineers, budget people, project managers etc who either got forced out or decided it was a good time to leave.

https://reduceflooding.com/2022/04/14/editorial-brain-drain-in-harris-county-government-compromises-service-productivity/

That's when Dr Milton Rahman started. Rumor is he's driven the dept into the ground.

AlaskanAg99 said:

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That's when Dr Milton Rahman started. Rumor is he's driven the dept into the ground.

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Not according to his LInkedIn.

""Milton is a brilliant and well-respected Engineer whose expertise in various areas of engineering makes him an invaluable asset to the Public Works Department."

AgLA06 said:

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AlaskanAg99 said:

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That's when Dr Milton Rahman started. Rumor is he's driven the dept into the ground.

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Not according to his LInkedIn.

""Milton is a brilliant and well-respected Engineer whose expertise in various areas of engineering makes him an invaluable asset to the Public Works Department."

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100% Milton wrote that.

Damn, why didn't it ever occur to me to describe myself as brilliant in a resume or LI profile? Guess I ain't that smart.