PASSEDHouston City Council · 2025-11-18

The city council would approve a contract with Jacobs Engineering Group to design electrical, mechanical, structural, and other improvements at the Kingwood West Wastewater Treatment Plant, and would set aside roughly $4.55 million from the Water & Sewer System Consolidated Construction Fund to pay for it.

What it means for you

This contract covers the engineering design phase of upgrades to a wastewater treatment plant that serves the Kingwood area; residents who depend on that plant's wastewater services are the primary group affected.

Outcome

Adopted — vote recorded in official minutes. Council Member Plummer absent. Ordinance 2025-0978, official minutes of Nov 18-19, 2025.

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.

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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 ↗

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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 18, 2025 meeting — Adopted.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-35973 — data from official records via PlainDocket.