{"id":65282,"date":"2025-07-14T16:15:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T16:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/65282\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T16:15:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T16:15:15","slug":"harris-county-precinct-3-hosting-town-hall-for-county-budget-july-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/65282\/","title":{"rendered":"Harris County Precinct 3 hosting town hall for county budget July 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tTom Ramsey, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pct3.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harris County Precinct 3<\/a> commissioner, is hosting a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/1UzVe311kA\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">town hall July 17<\/a> centered around the county\u2019s budget.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What you need to know<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The town hall will take place at 6 p.m. July 17 at the George H.W. Bush Community Center at 6827 Cypresswood Drive in Spring. Attendees are invited to learn about the county\u2019s budget and share their thoughts on where funding should be prioritized.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&gt;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Some context<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Harris County is facing a potential $130 million budget shortfall for fiscal year 2025-26, Community Impact <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/houston\/bay-area\/government\/2025\/05\/23\/harris-county-projects-130m-budget-shortfall-seeks-potential-cuts-amid-rising-justice-health-care-costs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">previously reported<\/a>. Expenses that could impact the county\u2019s budget include $50 million budgeted for pay equity and $40 million for <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/houston\/bellaire-meyerland-west-university\/government\/2025\/03\/31\/higher-harris-county-wages-a-historic-victory-says-labor-union-president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">countywide compensation increases<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Budget hearings for Harris County are scheduled for Sept. 2-5.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Ramsey, the Harris County Precinct 3 commissioner, is hosting a town hall July 17 centered around the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":65283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[3232,454,6386,4345,46455,358,15714,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-65282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-budget","9":"tag-government","10":"tag-harris-county","11":"tag-houston","12":"tag-precinct-2","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-town-hall","15":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}