Taxing Miss Daisy

Previous tax bills and blighted properties haunt the city housing director

Comments (0) By Craig Malisow Thursday, Nov 28 2002
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Councilman Mark Ellis, who sits on the Housing Initiatives and Neighborhood Protection committees, said Stiner was "quite qualified" for the job. He referred to her appointment to the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs by then- governor Bush and said that while it was an unfortunate situation, he didn't have all the facts.

What Ellis did say was that his transparency ordinance was a success, recovering $350,000 in debts in about a month -- including a nice fat check from Stiner.

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