The nearly 10-year veteran of Houston city government will lead the city's finance department after the City Council approved the appointment of Melissa Dubowski on Wednesday.
Mayor John Whitmire, who won a Dec. 9 runoff election and took office this month, said the finance director appointment will likely be the most important.
“There are some financial challenges, we all know that,” he told the City Council. “However, (Dubowski’s) experience and dedication to the city is very encouraging to me as the new mayor.”
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Houston “will succeed or fail based on (Dubowski's) advice and guidance. We are very confident that we will be successful. In fact, we have no other choice,” he said.
The nation's fourth-largest city, rated AA by Fitch Ratings and S&P Global Ratings and Aa3 by Moody's Investors Service, faces growing structural budget imbalances and needs to address the imbalances. There is a need.
Dubowski will take over as finance director from Will Jones, who served during Mayor Sylvester Turner's administration.
She joined the city's Department of Finance in August 2014, and since 2019 has served as deputy director of the Office of Finance and Capital Management, which oversees the City of Houston's debt and forecasts tax revenues. In 2020, she
At the New York City Office of Management and Budget, he oversaw the operating and capital budgets for the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Prior to that, he worked as a financial analyst at the Texas State Comptroller's Office.
