Vickie Worthy wants assurance that her Acres Homes neighborhood won’t flood every time it rains.

Wearing a bright yellow Northeast Action Collective T-shirt and matching hat, Worthy addressed the Houston City Council last week, one of dozens who spoke out against Mayor John Whitmire’s proposed $7 billion budget. Several said they’d remember the “austerity budget” when the mayor comes up for re-election.

In 2010, Houstonians were assured of drainage upgrades after they approved a charter amendment that year, but tens of millions of dollars that were supposed to be designated for infrastructure were instead spent on other general fund priorities like an $832 million police contract, critics say.

On Wednesday, City Council voted 14-3 to adopt Whitmire’s budget, which addresses — albeit i

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