City Of Houston Public Works

We annexed the Northborough district 20 years ago, and it had issues way back then. Readers are cautioned that I delete what I judge to be extraneous text, and often paraphrase in order to make the legalese a lot more readable; also that comments added are a mix of my own opinions, best guesses, snarking, and judgements, and therefore may not be entirely accurate.

Not to mention causes backups into people’s homes, if it gets severe enough! No opinion on whether this is the best way to do it, or if it’s a good price on the bid, but we definately need to publicize this issue.

00 out of Parks Consolidated Construction Fund, approving and authorizing first amendment to construction contract between the City of Houston and CARRERA CONSTRUCTION, INC for Construction of Parks Master PlanSylvester (I’m Not a Dead Politician Yet) Turner Park.

RCA: Correction: Brand-name Gatorade.
, for a term to expire June 30, 2009 · Position Four- MS. ORDINANCE granting to SURE DISPOSAL SERVICES, INC a Texas corporation, the right, privilege and franchise to collect, automotive lift post two haul and transport Solid Waste and Industrial Waste from commercial properties located within the City of Houston. At least the Phillipino-Americans here can pay for their own statues. RCA: Similar to above, mandating a setback from the street edge. on Sunday, July 2nd, 2006 at 6:42 pm and is filed under City Agendas. If anyone knows someone with environmental experience, could you put page 70 of the pdf in front of them and see if this makes sense? It seems. ORDINANCE approving and authorizing an interlocal agreement between the City of Houston and TEXAS ENGINEERING AND EXTENSION SERVICE (TEEX) for Paramedic Training for the Houston Fire Department. One oddity: of the 21 bids on the first half, 12 of them “Did Not Meet Specifications” and were rejected. A variety of main sizes will be replaced.
RCA: The backup for this item is missing.

One Response to “City of Houston Agenda 7-5-06 (UPDATED)” #24 I drove by the Sylvester Turner Park yesterday, and it looked nearly complete.

KEIJI ASAKURA, for a term to expire June mackinac island vacation rental 30, 2007 · Position TwoMS. It’s a short agenda this week, due to the holiday. INC for Vinyl Magnets, Universal Lids, Fat Trapper Bags and Holders for Department of Public Works & Engineering$54,750. .

I said I wasn’t going to snark, so I won’t. Where do they come up with these names? One of the hardest problems we have to deal with in Public Works is trying to pin down the responsibilty through all these shell corpororations, partnerships, and what not. RCA: Raising the cost overrun contingency to 17% to pay for additional improvements “to address citizen safety and vandalism of the park and irrigation of the baseball fields Security fence at park perimeter and at detention pond Safety netting at NCAA baseball field outfield fence Irrigation systems for all baseball fields They didn’t plan for safety netting around the outfield fence? Well, normally, you only need it behind home plate to prevent foul ball injuries, but if vandalism is an issue, I have to wonder how long before mere netting is in tatters.

PIXELPUSHERS, INC dba CIVICA SOFTWARE for Automated License Plate Reader System for Houston Police Department$209,374. RCA: Some armed police services unit very, very old lines here. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. I suspect that, as important as it is, everyone will be put to sleep by it. This will increase the overall security of the patrol officers as well as the general driving public. One is a possible brain fart on the part of my memory, so I’m not going to point a finger.

00 I’m not going to snark this because frankly, they’re necessary.
for Water Line Replacement in the Magnolia Park Area. ORDINANCE granting to QUICK SILVER HAULING, LLC, a Texas corporation, the right, privilege and franchise to collect, haul and transport Solid Waste and Industrial Waste from commercial properties located within the City of Houston. Establishment of a connection charge provides that the owner of each successive property that connects to the line built by the developer will pay a pro-rata share of the cost to construct the line.

Committing to constantly improve efficiency and effectiveness of art creation and grant making processes to be more supportive of artists and arts organizations. Flexibiity is good, but what are the limits on the total number of agreements? This has the potential to remove a great deal of spending authority from council oversight.

Before that she was with Arthur Anderson as a Senior Consultant working on ERISA. This strikes me as an extremely wide variance, and I have to wonder what the bid specs were like, that this could happen.

REQUEST from Mayor for confirmation of the appointment of the following to the HOUSTON ARTS alone by lyric not saosin youre ALLIANCE: · Position OneMR. Because it would be really embarassing if someone stole the police station. 16General, Enterprise, Grant and Other FundsTAGGED BY COUNCIL MEMBERS WISEMAN and ALVARADO This was item 33 on Agenda of June 28, 2006 RCA: Extending an existing contract through 2007.

ORDINANCE approving and authorizing Professional Services Contract between the City of Houston and SMITH & COMPANY ARCHITECTS for the African American Library, GFS E-0144-03-2$89,000. No funds will be allocated until the City receives payment from FEMA. On the second half, the 7 lowest bids were all rejected as “Partial/Higher Unit Price” and averaged about one-ninth the price of the winning bid. Collaborationidentifying opportunities and bringing organizations and leaders together to benefit both the arts community and the citizens of the area, reaching out to and communicating with business 2. RCA: Fund and actions required by state law. Mayor’s Report: After public comment. 220, for inclusion in its district.
” Say what? If we’re serving it, why is it in the MUD? Is anyone else thinking there’s an awful lot of head-scratchers in our city? Maybe there’s actually a reason for these things, but when you first look at them, the reaction of any normal person is “Huh?” 13. Edmonds is suffering from a lengthy illness (not specified) and has already exhausted the allowed 180 days unpaid leave. RCA: The backup for this item is missing. unusualy verbose and obtuse.
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LESLIE BLANTON, for a term to expire June 30, 2008 · Position Three-MR. REPORT FROM CITY CONTROLLER AND THE CITY ADMINISTRATION REGARDING THE CURRENT FINANCIAL STATUS OF THE CITY including but not limited to, a revenue, expenditure and encumbrance report for the General Fund, all special revenue funds and all enterprise funds, and a report on the status of bond funds.
205 acres, thus yielding a total of 1616157 acres.

ORDINANCE approving and authorizing second amendment to contract between the City of Houston and LLEWELYN-DAVIES SAHNI, INC for Professional Landscape Architectural and Engineering Services$59,478.

Additional work being added to the original contract. RCA: Ok, I have a grip on what’s going on here now.
Not every item will have comments about the backup.

It looks odd; I never realized council had to approve these things.

There’s also a graphical version, known as GIMS, that is accessable by the public. 00General and Grant Funds Is this to go with the camera system? or is it something else entirely? If the former, what happened to the camera company fronting all the costs? RCA: “The Department will initially utilize these devices in and around airports, schools and high crime areas with a particular focus on stolen vehicles, outstanding warrants, amber alert information, and vehicles with possible terrorist connections. Why? Does this mean that Metro bought time and then found that they had too much? Or they needed a quick infusion of cash, so they sold a non-tangible asset? What exactly is the city experimenting with? I’ll be looking at the backup on this one too. Time to hit the backup RCA: Ok, I’ve read the backup, and I might understand it: “Article IV of law enforcement sample resume Chapter 47 of the Code of Ordinances, Houston, Texas (Houston Code) includes provisions for the reimbursement of developers who have constructed a water or sanitary sewer extension.

ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 45 OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES, HOUSTON, TEXAS, relating to the Residential Parking Permit Program. .
RECOMMENDATION from Director Department of Public Works & Engineering for establishment of a connection charge in the amount of $0.