September Meeting: Speaker Chris Hollins, Houston City Controller
Mon, Sep 09
|West University Community Center
From the man who brought us drive-through voting, learn what Chris Hollins is doing now as Houston City Controller
Time & Location
Sep 09, 2024, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
West University Community Center, 6104 Auden St, Houston, TX 77005, USA
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About the event
Join us September 9, 2024, 6:30 - 8 pm.
Speaker Chris Hollins, Houston City Controller
Chris Hollins is a native Houstonian who has served as Houston City Controller since January 2024.
As the independently elected Chief Financial Officer of the nation’s fourth-largest city, Controller Hollins provides oversight of a budget exceeding $6 billion and manages the City’s $6 billion investment and $14 billion debt portfolios. Hollins is deeply committed to transparency, fiscal responsibility, and results-driven operations, using his office’s auditing authority to bring new ideas and best practices to City departments that result in cost savings and a higher standard of service to Houston residents.
Prior to his service as City Controller, Hollins led the 2020 elections effort in Harris County as County Clerk, gaining national acclaim for protecting and expanding voting rights for 2.5 million Houston-area voters during the most important election of our lifetime. Hollins’s innovations – which…