{"id":289703,"date":"2026-05-12T15:51:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T15:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/289703\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T15:51:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T15:51:13","slug":"harris-county-commissioners-to-discuss-budget-fifa-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/289703\/","title":{"rendered":"Harris County Commissioners to discuss budget, FIFA security"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHarris County commissioners are set to receive a number of financial updates ahead of budget season May 14 alongside over 400 additional agenda items.<\/p>\n

The big picture<\/p>\n

According to agenda documents<\/a>, commissioners are set to receive updates from the Harris County Office of Management and Budget regarding the county’s financial standings so far in fiscal year 2025-26.<\/p>\n

Precinct 3 Commissioner Tom Ramsey and Precinct 2 Commissioner Adrian Garcia both also requested projections for FY 2026-27.<\/p>\n

As previously reported by Community Impact, Harris County commissioners navigated $102 million in cuts<\/a> and and other cost saving measures to avoid having a shortfall in FY 2025-26.<\/p>\n

Commissioners will also receive an update on the five-year financial plan to avoid additional budget shortfalls by finding ways to generate revenue and create savings opportunities.<\/p>\n

Also on the agenda<\/p>\n

With the 2026 FIFA World Cup approaching<\/a>, commissioners will also receive an update on security and general preparedness for the event.<\/p>\n

The event is expected to be one of the largest sporting events in Houston’s history, with over 500 million ticket requests submitted during initial ticketing phases.<\/p>\n

Stay tuned<\/p>\n

Harris County Commissioners Court meetings are held at 9 a.m. in Downtown Houston. The administration building is located at 1001 Preston St., Houston. Meetings are also available to livestream on the county\u2019s website<\/a>.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harris County commissioners are set to receive a number of financial updates ahead of budget season May 14…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2050,19470,37274,405,56,58,57,17954,106038,3692],"class_list":["post-289703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-budget","tag-commissioners-court","tag-fifa","tag-harris-county","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-revenue","tag-shortfal","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}