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PASSEDHouston City Council · 2025-11-18

The City Council is asked to approve the final interest rates, amounts, and other terms for three series of special facility bonds — totaling up to $575 million — that the City is issuing on behalf of United Airlines to finance a catering facility, a ground services equipment facility, and a refinancing of earlier terminal improvement bonds at Houston airports.

What it means for you

These bonds are repaid solely from lease payments made by United Airlines, not from city taxes or airport revenues, so Houston taxpayers and airport fund users are not on the hook for repayment; the item primarily affects United Airlines and bond investors.

Outcome

Adopted — all voting aye, nays none. Ordinance 2025-0964, official minutes of Nov 18-19, 2025.

Airports — see all →Citywide

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?$575,000,000coversheet ↗
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 18, 2025 meeting — Adopted, all voting aye.minutes ↗
The official caption doesn't name a beneficiary or who repays it — full details in the official coversheet ↗

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