PASSEDHouston City Council · 2025-12-16

The City Council approved an $8 million contract with DL Glover Utilities, LLC to perform ditch reestablishment work during fiscal year 2026. The contract sets deadlines for the contractor to submit required bonds and insurance documents, with default penalties if deadlines are missed.

What it means for you

This contract funds work to restore and repair drainage ditches across Houston, which can help reduce localized flooding in residential and commercial areas. Funding comes from an Enterprise Fund, not the general tax base.

Outcome

Adopted — all voting aye, nays none. Ordinance 2025-1049, official minutes of December 16, 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.

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?$8,000,000minutes ↗

Who's paid?DL GLOVER UTILITIES, LLCminutes ↗

Which fund?Enterprise Fundminutes ↗

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 ↗

What this company has been paid

The city's published checkbook records $94,755,514 paid to DL GLOVER UTILITIES LLC across 1,630 payment lines, FY2023–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-cs20251216-52 — data from official records via PlainDocket.