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HOUSTON - One of the biggest headaches for Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner is not street repairs, but the large potholes in the city’s pension funds.

It a large problem, but Turner is optimistic that he has a solution and will solve it by year’s end.

“I have set high aggressive goal for myself and I have said we will get it solved by the end of the year,” Turner said recently in an exclusive interview with African-American News and Issues. “Before we leave this year, we will have something to present to the state legislature in 2017 for them to approve.”

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are limited and Houston residents and officials might be facing harder options and decisions when it comes to basic services, funding new projects and raising taxes.

Turner is tackling the issue head on in an effort to ward off doubters and doomsayers who say it can’t be done.

“Our hardworking public employees deserve the fair and secure retirement promised for their service,” he said. “It an issue that is not going away and remains a high priority. Employees want a system you can count on. The worst thing you can do is work for 30 to 35 years and retire and have an unstable and uncertain system and you get out and your check doesn’t come…that is not fair and is scary.”

THE CHALLENGE Reported by Forbes contributor Scott Beyer, The Public Employee Pension Crisis Comes To Houston, September 7, 2015, Houston now has at least $3.1 billion in unfunded liabilities owed to fire, police and municipal workers. As recently as 2001, this shortfall barely existed, with the pension system’s actuarial value of assets and its accrued liabilities both sitting at just under $6 billion. Fast forward to 2014, and the assets were $10.7 billion, while the liabilities were $13.8 billion.

This $3.1 billion difference exceeds the city’s total general fund revenue by $1 billion, and means the pension system is only about 75% funded.

The city’s Houston’s pension debt is also now a billion dollars more than the city’s total general fund revenue – moving the city into choppy financial waters. “... for more than a decade, local leaders have played political games with workers’ pensions,” McGee said in the report, “Swamped: How Pension Debt Is Sinking the Bayou City,” released in August 2015 by the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, a local research-oriented philanthropy, . “The city can no longer afford to ignore its pension problems and kick the can down the road. If Houston fails to swiftly and responsibly address the pension debt, the city risks going the way of

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THE IMPORTANCE OF CERTIFYING THE APPRAISAL Property Value Matters

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“No mayor since 2001 has solved this. Not Mayor Brown, Not Mayor White and Not Anise Parker and now its on my watch…”

Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner Chicago—and both public workers and taxpayers will pay the price.”

by Josh McGee, Laura and John Arnold Foundation Vice President of Public Accountability, who co-authored the research report with Michelle Welch.

In the same report, McGee and Welch present a range of fair and sustainable solutions that would address the growing debt and put the city’s pension plans—and the city’s financial health—back on the road to recovery.

Some suggested solutions by the research group included: • Obtaining local control of Houston’s pension systems, which would give local leaders the authority to negotiate directly with workers and to enact any changes at the local level; • Establishing a responsible payment schedule that will pay off Houston’s pension debt in 20 years or less and keep the pension systems debt-free in the future; • Re-evaluating the risky assumptions underlying Houston’s pension systems and setting more reasonable rates of return for the funds; and TO CONTINUE READING VISIT US ONLINE @ WWW.AFRAMNEWS.COM STORY BY: BY D. CAMPBELL, AFRICAN-AMERICAN NEWS&ISSUES

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t the end of August, I certified the appraisal roll for Harris County.

Now you might wonder why I’m telling you about this part of my job, but this is an important action that the appraisal district works towards each year.

Certification of the roll basically means that the appraisal district has verified the value, ownership and exemptions of all taxable properties for that year and most of the protests that property owners have filed earlier in the year have been resolved. At the time I certify the roll, we must have at least 90 percent of the property value in the county set.

This is important because it means that the governing body of a taxing unit – for example, the Houston City Council – can now adopt a tax rate and budget that produces the tax dollars needed to pay for the services the city provides, such as police and fire protection, trash collection and street maintenance. Without a certified appraisal roll, taxing units cannot adopt a tax rate.

The tax rate is important to you because the tax rate, along with the exemptions allowed, determines the amount of tax you will pay.

Each year, the taxing unit’s governing body can decide whether to lower the tax rate, keep it the same or increase it. You can play a part in that process.

Once the taxing units receive the appraisal roll, the next step is for them to set the budget and then

publish the proposed tax rate. The tax rate will reflect the amount of money that must be produced in order for the unit to meet its budgeted needs.

As a taxpayer, you have the right to know about any proposed tax rate increase and have time to comment on it. This means that you may speak out at public hearings when your elected officials are deciding how to spend your tax dollars and setting the tax rate.

Public hearings are often advertised in newspapers and appear on each taxing unit’s web site. Look for them to start this month.

Once citizens have been given the opportunity to provide their input, the governing body sets the tax rate, the tax bills go out and the process of collecting the taxes begins. Taxpayers have until January 31 of the following year to pay their taxes without incurring a penalty.

I hope this helps further explain the property tax system and ways you can make your views known.

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pride myself of being a pretty good history teacher since I first set foot in a classroom some 13 years ago. I was a Political Science major at my beloved Prairie View A&M University, also minoring in History. Having taught thousands of y’alls children during this time has required me to keep learning and researching this curricula in order to mold young and inquiring minds into exceptional thinkers.

Being a 1950s baby, my only source(s) of information upon entering grade school were textbooks. After I entered high school in the mid-70s, I became an avid reader of the Corpus Christi Caller Times and later the Austin American Statesman after watching my father dissect the news printed in them on a daily basis. Little did I know was that those newspapers were a “poor man’s encyclopedia” years before my folks could afford a 20-volume set of the World Book Britannica. Its distant information cousin, the World Wide Web, would be invented in 1989 some 12 years after I graduated high school.

I had some pretty good (I thought) history teachers in high school; some who were Ph.Ds. They made the subjects interesting enough to me that I actually considered becoming a history teacher AFTER I played in the NBA, rode a spaceship to the moon, or designed the “8th Wonder of the World”. I guess you could say that I was full of possibilities back in the day. If I can recall correctly, none of my teachers ever dwelt too much on Negro/Black history in volume outside of the normal sprinklings of Dr. King, Miss Rosa, and Jackie Robinson.

“The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman” (1974) and “Roots” (1977), were the first historical documentaries that described the plight of Black folk to youngsters like me who actually paid attention. It wasn’t until I entered

college did I discover that AfricanAmerican history was much deeper than what I was taught. All of my teachers prior to that time were White.

There’s nothing wrong with having White teachers; they’re some of the finest educators around. I’m friends with many. But, I wonder sometimes how many of them were taught history different than me? I mean, was slavery mentioned as an afterthought or was it detailed the way it should have been?

I don’t even remember any debates on it until everybody started talking about “Roots”. Even then, the conversation was brief and rushed. I do, however, remember spending a lot of time learning about the American Revolution, Civil War, and the Constitution. In those studies I remember a Francis Scott Key who wrote the “Star Spangled Banner”. Most Americans refer to it as the “National Anthem”.

We’ve all must have heard this song about a godzillion times. Before cable television, most channels signed off each night by playing this tune in its “one verse” entirety. Never did the mass majority of Americans know that our National Anthem had three stanzas. That, again, was in the 70s.

Never did I realize the importance of this oversight until Gabby Douglas’ and Colin Kaepernick’s refusal to acknowledge the song in “patriotic” fashion. Questions is; what patriots are we supposed to be honoring?

During the battle of 1812, British troops recruited American slaves to join them in their fight against the Americans. They were promised their freedom if the British won this battle.

History tells us that the British did win and the slaves who fought were freed.

All of this occurred at Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland. Francis Key was a wealthy lawyer who owned slaves and considered them his “property”. One can imagine how pissed off he was seeing Black men whupping white men’s asses in such a pivotal war in American history. It was during his observation of the battle that he penned the now infamous lyrics written in the third stanza. It only took some of us two hundred and four years to find it.

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“Majorities, as such, afford no guarantees for justice. They are men of the same nature as minorities. They have the same passions for fame, power, and money, as minorities; and are liable and likely to be equally - perhaps more than equally, because more boldly - rapacious, tyrannical and unprincipled, if entrusted with power.”

These most wholesome words were rendered by Lysander Spooner, an American political philosopher and writer.

I could not agree with him more in his expression because I have found it to be true.

We MUST Understand that, power is something that has the tendency to change a person’s entire demeanor and outlook on life. It can change the mentality of a person into believing that they are one thing when they really are another. I am all too familiar with the many different vices of power when given to the wrong person with a wavering mind.

As it is, the United States of America has become a melting pot of many different races and cultures over the past few decades. While this nation has been labeled the, “Land of the free”; truth is that it has not always lived up to this title. Prior transgressions against minorities in this country appear to have been forgotten and swept under the rug. The reason why I am stating this is because AfricanAmerican News&Issues is a publication that has thrived off of highlighting and addressing current and historical realities affecting our communities for over two decades. Therefore, I felt

the need to address the fact that though it seems like diversity is exemplified more in modern times in seats of official and authoritative roles. Sometimes things are not always as they appear.

Right here in our city, we have a Hispanic-American occupying the seat of Chancellor at the Houston Community College System and even in the Superintendent seat at the Houston Independent School District. Now, I respect leadership roles and I certainly respect when people have a genuine desire and intent for true progression as it relates to the AfricanAmericans and minorities. But, at the same time I have to question whether or not some of our leaders who are minorities are really for minorities? Just as in times past, a White man in a Black person’s body that had no regard for selling out his own people was labeled as an Uncle Tom; I wonder right now today are some of our Hispanic counterparts and other minorities demonstrating the same mentality, when they get to a point where they believe they have arrived? By no means am I crucifying or demeaning the Chancellor or Superintendent.

But I am citing these examples to make a point. When we inherit minorities in leadership roles we must ask ourselves; are they really going to be concerned with the minority part of their heritage or will they act out the true meaning found on their birth certificates?

I often express to my staff the various labels that society has labeled us Africans in Americans down through the years. I remember some years ago, I had to stand before a large gathering to give a speech to a diverse crowd. Unbeknownst to me, my entire message was under scrutiny because I challenged the attendees at the gathering to go

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home and simply look at their birth certificates. There was a reason why I encouraged them to look at their birth certificates to notice the difference and division that has been portrayed down through the years. Now, according to birth certificates in my family, “My father was born a Negro, I was born Colored, my daughter was born Black and my grandchildren were born African-Americans; now ain’t that a real mother for ya?”

I felt the need to state that because Black folks are the only race of people that have officially been labeled everything under the sun in regards to race relations. On the other hand, anyone who was not Black including Mexican and HispanicAmericans, were labeled as White. Going back to my prior question regarding whether or not we can expect our HispanicAmericans to hold true to their roles as minorities; or should we expect them to act upon the label as being White according to their birth certificates? I am not coming down on our Hispanic counterparts because we have the same problems within the Black race as well. There are many in and from our community that are considered minorities by label.

However, when they get to a point where they feel that they have arrived, it is then that they believe they are of the majority race. Now ain’t that a real mother for ya? At the end of the day, they can blame it on me all that want to; but, I just believe in calling an ace an ace and a spade a spade!

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Love The Skin You In Story by: By D. Campbell, African-American

HOUSTON - Even before Michelle Carter won fame and critical acclaim as an Olympic hero, she was already making a difference in her community by motivating young African American girls and others in minority communities to discover their talents.

“I want young girls to develop confidence to see they can do,” Carter told the African-American News&Issues in an exclusive interview. “Many of them can do anything they put their minds too. I want each of them to see and believe they can and can be the very best at what they decide to do.”

Carter is the founder of You Throw Girl Sports Confidence Camp, a sports camp that focuses on the complete female athlete through confidence building and athletic empowerment.

Also, as owner of Shot Diva’s Makeup, She’s a firm believer in bringing beauty on the inside out.

Raised in Texas, She attended Fellowship Christian Academy, Red Oak Jr. High and graduated from Red Oak High School in 2003.

Daughter of shot putter, 1984 Olympic Silver Medalist and San Francisco 49ers nose guard, Michael Carter, Her father, Michael, is still the standing national boys’ prep record of 81-3.5, set in 1979. Michael and Michelle Carter are the only fatherdaughter duo of their kind.

Carter received a full track scholarship to The University of Texas, where she graduated in 2007 with a degree in Youth and Communities Studies, and a minor in Kinesiology.

Making a name for herself, she has been featured in Essence Magazine, Dallas Morning News, ESPN, Network, ESPN The Magazine, NBC, The Sacramento Bee, Track and Field News in addition to many others.

Michelle Carter is also a certified Professional Makeup Artist with a passion for beauty. Michelle uniquely blends her passion for throwing and beauty, forming the name “ShotDiva”.

One of her favorite quotes is “When you look good…you feel good and you will do good”.

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Her secrets of success started at a very early age where she discovered that she could compete and achieve at high levels regardless of her size or shape.

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achieve their dreams.

“I enjoyed it willing to learn it and be my best at it,” she said. “It all starts with being willing to try things and allowing that inner challenge to succeed motivate you,” she said. “You have to want to work you have to want to go through the pains, practices and trials in order to be the best. It may seem difficult but it will pay off in the end.”

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Her interest in sports started playing basketball, but one of her coaches saw talents beyond round ball and talked to her about track competition.

“It (shot put) was not on my radar,” she said. “I was into basketball and a coach recognized my talents and skills and asked me to try out for track and I did. I happened to be good at it, stuck with it and built on it.”

In the process, she was exposed to the shot put competition – and has never looked back since.

Carter was also a stellar athlete in high school who won four back to back 4A track and field championships in the shot put and discus, garnering the state record in discus.

She also is the former national girls’ prep record-holder in the shot put at 16.73m/54-10.75.

“I did not choose the shot put life,” she said “The shot put life chose me.”

She said after realizing how she excelled in that area and how she was fit for the sport, she started developing it and it changed her entire life and how she viewed herself.

She said it helped her develop a healthy sense of self esteem and an identity that gave her a winning attitude and desire to win.

“I don’t knock things until I try it out,” Carter said. “I was open-minded and that openness has allowed me to step forward, achieve and do things that now have taken me to new and higher levels I could have never imagined had I sat back and watched.”

Her parents also had a positive influence on her, but in the end it is the challenge from the inner self that makes the difference.

She said too many youth stand by on the sidelines and never give themselves a chance to explore and

One of her greatest passions besides Shot Put competitions happens on the field of life, where she is actively involved in being a role model for young girls and a motivator promoting youth achievement.

“My passion is strong in this areas because I am older and work with youth and have found is that many do not have confidence in themselves and are unwilling to try new things,” she said.

“It is sad to see great talents and abilities and dreams not realized, because an individuals are struggling with believing in themselves.”

She also pointed to the dangers of entertainment, magazines, television programs and commercials and social media painting pictures of what they define and want people to believe success looks like.

“My parents worked to help me develop positive confidence in me and that helped me grow stronger and more committed to completing my dreams and goal in life,” she said.

“They told me “I Can” and once you believe that, you go out there and make it happen – Every young woman needs to understand – Yes You Can!!!”

Another message Carter seeks to share with youth is that today’s social media and entertainment images out there are fantasy, not real life.

It is clear that at 5’9 and 260-pounds, she has not allowed social stigmas and stereotypes to rule and govern her success or life.

“Do not try to live up to expectations that are not real life expectations,” she said. “Everybody is different and every BODY is different and that’s OK,” she said. “You work with what you have and you love yourself first. Create your own set of personal

expectations for your life and do not mesh yourself with some fictitious person. Love who you are.”

Carter added that these so-called projections are influential and dangerous and can damage and even kill.

“I want young girls and teen girls to understand the difference between what is real life and what is not real life and understand your own positive talents, skills and abilities in everyday life,” she said. “You have a lot to offer the world.”

She said her message is the same to youth where ever she goes speaking or doing confidence camps.

“They can do it and I want to be involved in helping them develop that positive sense of can do,” she said. “I want to make a difference by helping provide them with the knowledge, focus and confidence they need to accomplish the dreams and goals they set for themselves in life - whether it is a sports goal, Olympic goal or a life, college or career goal.”

FUTURE OF WOMEN BRIGHT As more social and economic barriers fall and career fields and pay become more equitable, Carter believe the future for woman is bright inside and outside of sports.

“For women, the sky is the limit,” Carter said. “When you fight to break down barriers, you open the way for the next woman coming behind you to stand up and fight to get to the next

highest level. The barriers that one breaks, releases the next woman to break the next barrier.”

She also sees the gains for woman at the 2016 Olympics translating into opportunities in other career areas.

Carter believes the Olympic games started a chain reaction affect that feeds off each the winning experiences and she expects that more women will excel, not only in sports, but also in fields of science, research, medicine and business.

“I see it everywhere,” she said. “I see a women finding cures, inventing and creating technology and doing many other great things because this brings out things from inside of people to the outside because you see it can be achieved.”

FOCUS ON FUTURE Carter shared the next stages for her life – Her Hopes Dreams and Goals She is preparing herself for more Shot Put competitions.

“I have a desire to be the best I can be,” she said. “Once a competitor always a competitor.”

However, Carter made it clear she will also focus on doing sports confidence camps and speaking to different groups around the country to spread her positive message.

“I am trying to make difference and I’m excited about that,” she said.

“I see opportunities and doors opening and we are ready for whatever is available beyond life with the Shot put.”

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orn and raised as a preacher’s kid in Brooklyn, New York, Stacy Francis started out in musical theater at the age of 13. At the age of 16, she joined the girl group Ex-Girlfriend, and this group was signed to Warner Bros. Records by music legend Benny Medina. They scored a #3 Billboard hit single Why Can’t You Come Home, which was produced by R. Kelly. From there, Francis had the opportunity to travel to London to co-star in a show with the beautiful Chaka Khan in the West End production of Mama I Want to Sing.

In addition to, Francis also performed on Broadway for about six years. Some of her shows include Smokey Joe’s Café, Street Corner Symphony, Boys Choir of Harlem and Friends, and Footloose, originating the role of “Rusty.” After Broadway, Francis took some time off, but made a triumphant return when she landed a spot on the X-Factor. She was a finalist, and was a fan favorite on Simon Collwell’s first season. The YouTube videos of her X-Factor performances have been viewed collectively 11 million times. After her time spent on the X-Factor, Francis joined the cast of R&B Divas L.A. Most recently, Francis was fortunate enough to perform at the opening performance of the Democratic Convention in Philadelphia, performing selections at the request of Presidential Nominee Hillary Clinton. Francis has been through many ups and downs in her life and she stated that, “Going to sing praise and worship for a presidential nominee…it was a validation from God that even after everything I

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had done and everything I had been through, his grace was on my life.” She further stated, “No matter how far you go, or how far you mess you, God will always keep you safe in his arms.”

Singing at the Democratic National Convention took Francis back to her gospel roots, but she made it known that growing up, as a preacher’s kid wasn’t easy. “At the time it was very hard. I couldn’t listen

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to R&B music…and there were just a lot of things that I couldn’t do.” Now, at the age she is now, she appreciates the life she had as a preacher’s kid. “Being able to sing how I do sing is from being in church all the time.”

In regards to some of the issues that are currently affecting our nation, she expressed, “It is very important for everyone to do their part and do the best that we can.” Francis also quoted Will Smith when he stated that,

“Racism has not gotten worse, it’s just being filmed.”

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to be very close to Minister Louis Farrakan, and to be working with him on a project with Snoop Dogg and The Game, where the Crips and Bloods signed a peace treaty in Los Angeles. “I think that the main focus of those guys is that when we are stopped by the police or when Black men are stopped by the police, that they just know what to do or what to say to not cause any antagonism or an upset.” Francis also expressed the importance of praying and coming together, and trying to pick up a positive mindset and to try to change our own minds. “If we are all operating in anger, its just going to get worse,” stated Francis.

As an actress and a singer, Francis wants to be perceived as a person who helps other people through her music. She wants them to feel good, and to be inspired when they hear her sing.

“I just hope and pray that people know me as someone who is moral and ethical, and someone who has messed up, but has made changes in my life to bring myself back to God.” Her biggest message is to let people know that it’s never to late. “It’s never too late to follow your dreams, to do the right thing, be forgiven, and its never too late to have a change in your mind to be better.” It means a lot to her that she continues to give people hope.

Francis is currently working on several projects, and is doing a lot of traveling, performing, and humanitarian work. Through her busy schedule, she still manages to be a great mother to two. She is a caring person, who is very humble, and has a very close relationship with God. She continues to be an inspiration to many people all over the world.

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