Comment on Mayor Turner outlines plans in state of city speech

Stressing Houston's financial challenges, Mayor Sylvester Turner outlined his two-year fiscal policy goals during his first State of the City address Wednesday, calling for a pension reform deal by the end of the year and asking voters to remove the city's cap on property tax collections in 2017. Turner also appointed former City Councilman Steve Costello as the city's flood czar, a newly-minted position designed to lead Houston's flood mitigation efforts, noted a plan to move 175 city police officers onto the streets and reviewed his proposed budget for next fiscal year.