2026-11-10 - City Council Meeting
Summary
Built from the posted agenda; the meeting has not happened and no minutes or video are posted, so no outcomes are recorded.
- Consent agenda items 1-47 and a non-consent block (items 48-53) that includes four public hearing dates and two held matters.
- Appointments for confirmation: ten Houston BARC Foundation board positions, Herbert Sims as Human Resources Director and Rebekah Williams as Director of the Department of Neighborhoods.
- Item 53 is the $1,995,000 Ernst & Young airport assessment, held from November 4 after Edward Pollard tagged it; item 52 is a written amendment proposed by Julian Ramirez on November 4. See Houston Airport System Operational Assessment.
- Public hearing dates set for November 18, 2026 at 9:00 AM on plan amendments for Reinvestment Zones Three, Ten, Thirteen and Sixteen. See Reinvestment Zone Plan Amendments and 2026-11-18 - City Council Meeting.
- Housing and recovery money: $6,000,000 loan for Pleasant Hill Village, $2,400,000 for Brittons Place, a CDBG-DR 2024 Action Plan amendment, and a Sterlingshire Apartments bond resolution. See CDBG-DR 2024 Action Plan Amendment.
- Six Protected Landmark designations in the Dunstan Road and Tangley Street area (items 36-41) and three block ordinances (items 42-44). See Landmark and Protected Landmark Designations and Special Minimum Lot Size Blocks.
- Spending: TCEQ annual fees of $1,878,708.88, a $175 million industrial parts cooperative purchasing authority over 5 years, water rights legal and engineering contracts, and the FY2027 Greater Harris County 9-1-1 budget. A $13.4 million Parks FY27 CIP appropriation (item 28) was pulled from the November 4 agenda.
Agenda
Invocation by Amy Peck at 9:00 AM; public speakers at 9:30 AM.
Consent agenda, items 1-47:
- Items 1-3: mayoral appointments, BARC Foundation board (ten positions with terms ending December 31, 2026 or 2027), Herbert Sims (Human Resources), Rebekah Williams (Neighborhoods).
- Item 4: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality annual water quality and emissions inspection fees for wastewater plants, $1,878,708.88.
- Item 5: Greater Harris County 9-1-1 Emergency Network budget for FY2027 (January 1 to December 31, 2027).
- Items 6-12, accept work: ITRP enabling utilities landside project at IAH (Burns & McDonnell); cured-in-place pipe sewer rehabilitation (Cruz Tec, IPR South); On-Call Neighborhood Traffic Management Program construction Group B (ISI Contracting); wastewater collection rehabilitation (Lopez Utilities); preventive sewer cleaning and inspection (Specialized Maintenance Services); large diameter sewer lining (Vortex Lining Systems).
- Item 13: industrial parts, supplies and services through cooperative purchasing agreements, up to $175,000,000 over 5 years (Public Works, enterprise funds).
- Item 14: Houston Housing Finance Corporation multifamily bonds for Sterlingshire Apartments (District B).
- Items 15-17: Texas Economic Development Bank Enterprise Project nominations for United Airlines (2800 N Terminal Road), Enchanted Rock (1113 Vine Street) and Waste Management (800 Capitol Street). See United Airlines Capital Projects Agreement.
- Items 18-19: loans for Pleasant Hill Village ($6,000,000) and Brittons Place ($2,400,000), affordable multifamily acquisition and rehabilitation (District B).
- Items 20-21: first amendments to subrecipient agreements with The Beacon of Downtown Houston ($485,000, homeless diversion, through November 30, 2027) and Family Endeavors.
- Item 22: substantial amendment to the CDBG Disaster Recovery 2024 Action Plan adding the Urgent Need national objective for four programs.
- Item 23: airport use and lease agreement with JetBlue for Terminal A at IAH.
- Items 24-26: Environmental Health Administration Building structural and roof repairs ($4,061,000); airport CIP project management costs ($830,000); PC refresh and cyber protection projects ($4,703,500). See IT Infrastructure Refresh and ERP Office.
- Item 27: Honeywell enhanced software support, 5 years, $3,180,159.52.
- Items 28-29: Parks FY27 CIP appropriations (about $13.4 million, the item pulled on November 4) and East Sunset Heights Park amendment with SpawGlass ($355,000).
- Items 30-33: water rights legal services, Graves Dougherty Hearon and Moody ($1,250,000); Carollo Engineers water rights and resource management ($1,500,000); Civitas on-call water production engineering ($2,000,000); structural engineering by Concept Engineers and FCM Engineers ($3,650,000).
- Items 34-35: interlocal agreements for Anderson Park detention and recreation improvements with Harris County and St. George Place Redevelopment Authority (District J), and with the Houston Ship Channel Security District for police helicopter and marine patrols.
- Items 36-41: Protected Landmark designations: Ince-Crain House (1914 Dunstan), Helen and Jesse O. Webb House (2232 Dunstan), Irene and George Robinson House (2322 Dunstan), Myrle and Vernon Williams House (2107 Tangley), Myer-Jones House (2232 Tangley), Mae and John Wallace Donaldson House (2306 Tangley).
- Items 42-44: new Special Minimum Lot Size Block for the east side of the 2000 block of Cortlandt Street; renewed Special Minimum Building Line Blocks for Marshall Street 600-700 and Walker Street 4600-4800.
- Item 45: first amendment to the water supply contract with Harris County MUD No. 23.
- Items 46-47: Gradient Group sidewalk design contract ($315,000) and an additional $4,226,250 for the Grava drainage rehabilitation contract.
Non-consent agenda, items 48-53:
- Items 48-51: set public hearing dates, 9:00 AM Wednesday November 18, 2026, for amendments to the Reinvestment Zone Three (Main Street/Market Square), Ten (Lake Houston), Thirteen (Old Sixth Ward) and Sixteen (Uptown) project plans and financing plans.
- Items 52-53, matters held: Council Member Ramirez's written proposed amendment to item 53, and item 53, the Ernst & Young airport assessment (up to $1,995,000), both tagged by Council Member Pollard (item 53 was item 10 on November 4).
Matters to be presented by Council Members, Council Member Ramirez first.