Mayor Vows No Layoffs After Prop B Is Ruled Unconstitutional
Style Magazine Newswire | 5/17/2019, 8:45 a.m.
A state district judge has ruled Proposition B unconstitutional. District Court Judge Tanya Garrison issued her ruling saying the voter-approved measure granting pay parity to firefighters with the Houston Police department, violated Texas Local Government Code and the Texas Constitution. The judges ruling also voided Prop. B. Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, an opponent of Proposition B, read the judges ruling during city council meeting, and addressed the ruling with media afterward. Turner said the judges ruling means the move to lay off 47 city municipal employees, and nearly 300 firefighters within the next month had been halted, that fire cadets will be sworn in and that demotions of more than 400 firefighters who were not laid off would not happen. Turner said he hopes to bring the Houston Professional Firefighters Association to discuss a pay increase for firefighters that the city can afford.
