PASSEDHouston City Council · 2025-12-16

The City Council amended an existing 2022 contract with FIVENGINEERING, LLC to increase the maximum dollar amount allowed for professional engineering services related to storm water drainage improvement projects.

What it means for you

This increases the spending cap on a contract that funds engineering design work for drainage improvement projects across Houston, potentially affecting residents in areas prone to flooding.

Outcome

Adopted — all voting aye, nays none. Ordinance 2025-1046, official minutes of December 16, 2025.

Drainage & flooding — see all →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.

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

Who's paid?FIVENGINEERING, LLCminutes ↗

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 16, 2025 meeting — Adopted, all voting aye.minutes ↗

The official caption doesn't name a dollar amount or which fund pays for it — full details in the official minutes ↗

What this company has been paid

The city's published checkbook records $4,068,320 paid to FIVENGINEERING LLC across 78 payment lines, FY2018–FY2027.

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-cs20251216-45 — data from official records via PlainDocket.