Texas Scorecard by Joseph Trimmer June 27, 2025
Last year, Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo said the Harris County Toll Road Authority, Engineering Department, and Flood Control District had procurement issues.Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo stressed that county agencies—including the toll road authority— spent millions of dollars without following a procurement process or maintaining a paper trail.
“Not only are [drivers] still paying tolls, the toll money is being spent without a procurement process,” said Hidalgo. Her comments came during an intense exchange with Flood Control Director Tina Petersen, after Petersen disclosed a $1 billion funding gap in the 2018 flood bond program—the largest flood infrastructure bond in the county’s history.
Like the Harris County Toll Road Authority, that project has similarly been plagued with procurement issues.
Hidalgo pressed Petersen and County Auditor Mike Post to produce documentation for all flood bond project contracts, saying the situation was “not fair to the taxpayers” and “I would like to see the receipts.”
“Be there with me now, not after you resign and after you quit,” said Hidalgo.
More:
https://texasscorecard.com/local/harris-county-agencies-reportedly-spent-millions-with-no-paper-trail/
