Let’s see if we have this correct: the city wants to reduce the frequency of heavy trash pickup, so now HPD needs cameras to catch trash dumpers (via Matt Stiles on the City Hall blog):
City Council next week will consider spending $59,000 in grant money for a big truck featuring a 36-foot “manlift” device. The department needs the vehicle so its Neighborhood Protection Corps can “install and service cameras that are used to deter illegal dumping.”
Er, wait. HPD wants trash dumping cameras, or it already has trash dumping cameras?
Whichever it is, HPD wants this “manlift” truck thing fast-tracked, with minimal input:
If council members and their staffs have questions, they’d better ask them quickly. The department is requesting no tags [free reg.] on the item. How convenient.
Yep, that’s the way Chief Hurtt likes it.
Do you think Chief Hurtt will put some “trash dumping” cameras near apartment complexes and homes that have “too many calls for service“? That’s one way for Houston’s police chief to get more surveillance cameras!
