PASSEDHouston City Council · 2025-12-09

The City Council approved a $5.75 million contract with DL Glover Utilities, LLC to carry out the FY2026 Local Drainage Program (LDP) Contract #2, funded from the Dedicated Drainage and Street Renewal Capital Fund. The ordinance sets deadlines for the contractor to sign the contract and submit required bonds and insurance, with a default penalty for missing those deadlines.

What it means for you

This project will fund local drainage construction work aimed at reducing flooding in Houston neighborhoods. Residents in areas covered by this contract may see drainage infrastructure improvements, though specific locations were not named in the minutes.

Outcome

Adopted — all voting aye, nays none. Ordinance 2025-1024, official minutes of December 9, 2025.

Drainage & flooding — see all →Houston citywide

Official sources

Meeting minutes — full record with the vote (PDF) ↗

These are the official minutes — the narrative record of what happened at the meeting, including the vote on each item.

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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?$5,750,000minutes ↗

Who's paid?DL GLOVER UTILITIES, LLCminutes ↗

Which fund?Dedicated Drainage and Street Renewal Capital Fund - Drainage Chargeminutes ↗

Who decides?Houston City Council — its 16 members (11 district + 5 at-large) vote; the Mayor presides and also votes. Taken up at the December 9, 2025 meeting — Adopted, all voting aye.minutes ↗

What this company has been paid

The city's published checkbook records $85,601,438 paid to DL GLOVER UTILITIES LLC across 1,198 payment lines, FY2023–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.

See the year-by-year breakdown →

Cite this: https://plaindocket.com/item/real-cs20251209-49 — data from official records via PlainDocket.