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ON THE AGENDAHouston City Council · 2025-11-12

The city council is being asked to approve a roughly $4.55 million engineering contract with Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc. to design electrical, mechanical, structural, and other improvements at the Kingwood West Wastewater Treatment Plant as part of a hazard mitigation project.

What it means for you

This contract covers the design phase of upgrades to a wastewater treatment plant that serves the Kingwood area; residents whose wastewater is processed at this facility could be affected by the plant's continued operation and compliance with federal and state environmental requirements.

Outcome

On the 11/12/2025 council agenda. Outcome recorded in official minutes (minutes integration pending).

Utilities — see all →Kingwood (26808 Sorters Road)

Official sources

Item cover sheet — summary and background ↗Meeting minutes — full record with the vote (PDF) ↗

The cover sheet is the item's official summary page; supporting attachments (contracts, maps, fiscal notes) are listed at the bottom of it. The minutes show what happened at the meeting.

District A — Amy PeckADistrict B — Tarsha JacksonBDistrict C — Joe PanzarellaCDistrict D — Carolyn Evans-ShabazzDDistrict E — Fred FlickingerEDistrict F — Tiffany ThomasFDistrict G — Mary Nan HuffmanGDistrict H — Mario CastilloHDistrict I — Joaquin MartinezIDistrict J — Edward PollardJDistrict K — Martha Castex-TatumK

Official council district boundaries · City of Houston GIS. Tap a district to see who represents it.

How to weigh in

Where
City Hall, 901 Bagby, 2nd Floor, Houston, TX 77002
When
Council meets Tuesdays 1:30 p.m. & Wednesdays 9:00 a.m. Public Session — when you can speak — is Tuesdays at 2:00 p.m. (5:00 p.m. on the last Tuesday of the month).
Speak
Register by 3:00 p.m. the Monday before: call 832.393.1100, email speakers@houstontx.gov, or go in person to the City Secretary (City Hall Annex, 900 Bagby, Room P101). Each speaker gets 1–3 minutes.
Watch
Live on HTV ↗

From the City Council meetings information page. Confirm the exact date on the official agenda before you go.

Quick answersfrom the official record
How much?$4,550,000coversheet ↗
Who's paid?JACOBS ENGINEERING GROUP, INCcoversheet ↗
Which fund?Water & Sewer System Consolidated Construction Fundcoversheet ↗
Who decides?Houston City Council — its 16 members (11 district + 5 at-large) vote; the Mayor presides and also votes. Taken up at the November 12, 2025 meeting — outcome pending minutes processing.minutes ↗

What this company has been paid

The city's published checkbook records $31,833,803 paid to JACOBS ENGINEERING GROUP INC. across 712 payment lines, FY2018–FY2026.

That is money already paid across all city business with this company — not the amount this item approves, and not a total for this contract. The city keeps 2 separate records for this company; the figure adds them together.

See the year-by-year breakdown →

Cite this: https://plaindocket.com/item/real-33686 — data from official records via PlainDocket.

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