Houstonians approved the fee meant to fund flood mitigation projects at the beginning of the last decade, but it since evolved into a fight over whether the money actually pays for them.
The Texas 14th Court of Appeals reversed a ruling that sided with the city of Houston about the way it collects fees meant for infrastructure.An appellate court reversed a 2023 ruling that sided with the city of Houston regarding a voter-approved drainage fee being questioned over whether taxpayer funds were being spent appropriately.
On Tuesday, the Texas 14th Court of Appeals ruled the city's amount of money it calculated to charge water customers under the The ruling undoes a 281st District Court trial judgment from last July, stemming from a lawsuit filed in 2019, a year after voters renewed the tax. According to court documents, the plaintiffs, James Robert Jones and Allen Watson, argued that the city council hadn't allocated its drainage fund according to the city charter, claiming that the mayor and councilmembers underfunded that budget.
Over the years, Eyewitness News reported on the "ReBuild Houston" program, billed as an infrastructure improvement fund, that voters passed in 2010 as an amendment to the city charter under Bill White's mayoral administration. It continued into formerfound that just a small portion of tax revenues were spent on streets and drainage projects. A more significant allocation went to paying down debt and other noninfrastructure-related expenditures.
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