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Houston City Council members this week continued to consider requiring more transparency from the mayoral administration and giving themselves more power before changes are made to projects in the city's $16.7 billion capital improvement plan.

Before the city council approved the five-year plan in June , council member Julian Ramirez proposed three amendments — requiring a monthly report from the administration on projects "proposed for delay, cancelation, redesign, or alteration in scope" above a certain cost; giving the city council the power to approve or deny those changes; and, if requested by a city council member, requiring a public hearing before "installation or removal of improvements" along public streets and sidewalks. Those pr

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