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There’s been some confusion over a request by Ed Wulfe to swap some land and a public road in the Galleria area for his Boulevard Place project. After looking at the maps and reading the proposed ordinance carefully, I wanted to post to set the record straight. This is not S. Post Oak […]

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. The Houston Chronicle is part of the problem in Houston. We badly need an alternative news outlet, and the Houston Press isn’t it.

The agenda seems to have settled into a more normal length, now that the major budget resolutions have passed. This time, I managed to lay hands on the RCA and backup before the weekend, so I’m posting the agenda and comments based on the backup all at once.
Readers are cautioned that I delete […]

Item #23 on last week’s agenda was the approval and funding of an contract for architectural services for the construction of an African-American library in the city of Houston. Strangely, the backup was missing from the RCA stored online by the City Secretary’s office. Just to remind everyone, the RCA/agenda backup is […]

Update: I’m still trying to hit on a system that works and isn’t too confusing. This week, I’m going to add the RCA/backup update to the original post. This way, the train of thought for each individual item is maintained. Not every item will have comments about the backup. Where […]

Ok, I now have the backup for this week’s city council agenda on hand, and I’m going to run through it, hitting the high points, or where I had questions. People who want the full document may obtain it here for about one week (until Friday night at the least), after which I plan to […]

It’s a short agenda this week, what with little business compared to the budget over the last two weeks. However, the backup with RCA’s comes in at 21MB this time. Still trying to work out a way to get it off site for inspection.
Readers are cautioned that I delete what I judge to be […]

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. Such deletions may accidentally result […]

Ok, I said someone ought to look into those “annexations for limited purposes,” and someone was me, since access to the agenda backup isn’t possible outside the city’s computer system.

Starting with this week, Houblog will carry a brief summary of the upcoming week’s City Council Agenda, taken directly from the City Secretary’s website. I hope that people will find this to be of some use in keeping up with what their city government is up to. Even if you can’t show up at a council meeting, one of the reasons council members have staffs is to listen to you, the citizen, and relay your concerns to them.