After this morning's ceremony to swear in Jimmie Dotson, the new Chief of Police for HISD, Officer V.L. Mitchell stood in the back, eating from the buffet as Dotson spoke to the news cameras at the front of the room. Mitchell has been an HISD officer for 21 years, drove Dotson to the ceremony this morning, served as the interim chief during the fall semester and had interviewed for the chief's job. "It was something I would have liked to do," Mitchell said. "But Chief Dotson is very well-read, v
City Council unanimously approved hotly debated 6-month contract for Gerry Fusco, interim chief for the Bureau of Animal Regulation and Care.
The unanimity was a bit of a surprise, given the sharp critcism doled out two weeks ago by Councilwoman Jolanda Jones, who said she felt Fusco had refused to give her enough information about the benchmarks on his contract, among other things.
The $135,000 contract will keep Fusco at BARC through January.There was no mention we heard of the report released
