Bellaire approved a guaranteed maximum price of about $8.22 million on October 5 for its Glenmont Drive public works renovation. The city borrowed $8.7 million for the work and $7 million earlier to
Plummer and Sanchez both pledged future flood bond elections at an October 5 forum. The 2018 bond they would build on has an extended federal deadline and 25 of 181 projects paused.
An extended Harvey deadline, 25 of 181 bond projects paused, and 200 drainage projects with no funding. Any candidate who wants a new bond should account for the 2018 one first.
Three people were shot on the West Loop September 20. HPD said that night there was nothing to file. Charges came October 5, and one of the two men charged works in the county jail.
The rate increase costs the average homestead about $8 a year. The reserve draw is 62 percent of the opening fund balance and equals the gap between recurring revenue and appropriations exactly.
The registrar says the backlog is cleared. The same statement says hundreds of records still need precinct review, 13 days before early voting.
Eleven counties, 83 municipalities and 980 other entities hold flood authority in one watershed. The statistic driving the consolidation argument carries no citation.
Bellaire adopted the same rate it charged last year. Values rose 4.80 percent, so the bill on the average home rises about $174 anyway.
One half bars no-knock warrants the mayor says HPD does not serve. The other targets misdemeanor marijuana arrests that rose twelvefold under him.
The 11,000 is the manual review subset, not 15 percent of the backlog. Hundreds are still under review 14 days before early voting opens October 19.
Judge Lee Rosenthal left the ODonnell decree standing Monday because the challenge came too late, 29 days before the election the Fifth Circuit said made the timing urgent.
Houston withdrew its nearly $150 million Justice Department application Monday. The mayor says staff filed it before council voted. The federal deadline had passed 34 days earlier.