2026-11-04 - City Council (Consolidated, public session 9-30 AM) Meeting
Summary
Built from the posted agenda; no minutes or video are posted yet, so no outcomes are recorded.
- Consent agenda items 1-47 plus the Controller's financial status report; item 26 (Parks FY27 CIP appropriation, about $13.4 million) is marked pulled from this date.
- Combined Utility System bond ordinances: a revenue obligations ordinance (item 15) and two refunding bond ordinances (items 16-17) that may be considered only after item 15 passes. See Combined Utility System Bond Ordinances.
- Airport items: a $1,995,000 Ernst & Young system-wide assessment (item 10), the United Airlines Series 2026B special facilities bond pricing certificate (item 18) and a $7.5 million on-call aviation environmental contract (item 27). See Houston Airport System Operational Assessment and United Airlines Capital Projects Agreement.
- Public safety and IT appropriations: mobile data computers for Fire ($974,000), police mobile technology refresh ($2.2 million), video network ($779,000), scheduling app ($434,000) and Municipal Courts IVR ($166,000). See IT Infrastructure Refresh and ERP Office.
- Five landmark designations (items 37-41) and four Special Minimum Lot Size or Building Line Block ordinances (items 42-45). See Landmark and Protected Landmark Designations and Special Minimum Lot Size Blocks.
- Other contracts: $6,716,115 sewer stoppage cleaning contract with AIMS (item 31, see Sewer Cleaning Contract), $4.76 million diesel fuel, $2.43 million helicopter maintenance, $109,225 Texas Municipal League dues, and state homeless housing grants of $1,280,055 and $409,258.
Agenda
Invocation by Martha Castex-Tatum at 9:00 AM; public speakers at 9:30 AM; Administration report on the city's financial status (Controller and administration).
Consent agenda, items 1-47:
- Item 1: annual Texas Municipal League membership, $109,225 (General Fund).
- Items 2-8, accept work and final payment: IAH Terminal B and C skyway carpet (Lee Construction/LMC), sanitary sewer cleaning and inspection (AIMS), FY2021 Roadway Rehabilitation Package 4 (ISI Contracting), Pine Forest sanitary sewer (JFT Construction), two wastewater collection rehabilitation contracts (Lopez Utilities, IPR South), small diameter water lines (Reliance Construction).
- Item 9: eminent domain court deposit for the Sergio Ivan Rodriguez Memorial Pedestrian Bridge project (District I).
- Items 10-13, purchasing: Houston Airport System assessment by Ernst & Young, up to $1,995,000; ultra low-sulfur diesel from Mansfield Oil, $4,763,177.52; medical and incontinence supplies for the Health Department, $3,000,000 (grant fund); 61 protection relays from Ferguson, $361,889.21.
- Item 14: resolution assigning private activity bond authority for single family mortgage revenue bonds from the Houston Housing Finance Corporation to the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs.
- Items 15-17: Combined Utility System revenue obligations and first lien refunding bond ordinances (items 16-17 conditional on item 15).
- Item 18: pricing certificate for Airport System Special Facilities Revenue Bonds (United Airlines Terminal Improvement Projects), Series 2026B.
- Items 19-20: acceptance of Texas Homeless Housing and Services Program awards, $1,280,055 and $409,258 (youth homelessness).
- Items 21-25: Equipment Acquisition Fund appropriations for mobile data computers, police mobile technology, public safety video network, police scheduling application and Municipal Courts voice response.
- Item 26: Parks FY27 CIP appropriation; pulled and not to be considered November 4.
- Items 27-32: Terracon on-call aviation environmental consulting ($7.5 million); UT Health Science Center social reassurance services ($500,000); MD Helicopters maintenance ($2,428,077.75); Public Surplus online auction (6 years); AIMS sewer stoppage cleaning No. 12 ($6,716,115); first amendment with Quest Diagnostics lab services.
- Item 33: interlocal agreement with South Post Oak Redevelopment Authority and Reinvestment Zone Number Nine, land transfer to connect Sims Bayou Greenway to Simon Minchen Park (District K).
- Items 34-36: grant applications to the U.S. Department of Justice (Prosecuting Cold Cases Using DNA; Byrne JAG with Harris County) and to Homeland Security through the Governor's office (Counter Unmanned Aircraft Systems).
- Items 37-41: landmark designations: First City National Bank, 1021 Main (Landmark); Trinity United Methodist Church, 2600 Holman; house on Ruthven; Berean Seventh-Day Adventist Church, 2119 St. Emmanuel; historic house on Calumet (Protected Landmarks).
- Items 42-45: Special Minimum Lot Size Block for the 2000 block of Columbia Street (new); renewals for Eagle Street 2400-2500, Harby/Coyle/Jefferson/Pease/Leeland 4300-4400 blocks, and a Special Minimum Building Line Block for 4500 Park Drive.
- Item 46: sanitary sewer service agreement with Harris County MUD No. 612.
- Item 47: Hirsch Road Bridge replacement contract with MC2 Civil, $1,165,044.70 appropriation (District B).
Matters to be presented by Council Members, Mary Nan Huffman first.
Several ordinances carry the standard clause "declaring an emergency," which makes them effective immediately; it is not a declared state of emergency.