What this office does
City Council is Houston's legislative body — it has the power to enact and enforce the city's ordinances and resolutions. Your district member is one of 16 council members (11 elected from geographic districts, five citywide). Together the Council adopts and may alter the annual budget, confirms the Mayor's appointments, and votes on bond issues, the awarding of contracts, and city spending over $50,000.
Longtime community organizer focused on criminal justice reform and neighborhood investment on the North Side.
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Committees
Election watch
No filing on record yet for 2027.
Contact & office
What the record shows
Present at 26 of 34 council meetings the minutes place them on council (Oct 2025 – Aug 2026).
Recorded on 1282 of 1351 votes taken at those meetings.
What those votes were about
How this district spends its service fund
Each council district controls a Council District Service Fund — money the member directs to local projects like extra police overtime, sidewalk fixes, ditch cleaning, or park events. These are the actual line items from the city's published dashboards, FY2015 through FY2026. Try searching a word like "sidewalk" or "camera" to see what your fund bought.
Collective Action for Youth (B-38-25)
Council Member Jackson wants to award small grants to community groups to help carry out their missions. The projects include community beautification, after-school programs, food distributions and disaster preparation. Council Member Jackson received more than 50 applicants and selected these projects as beneficial to the residents of District B. She rejected applications if there was a possibility of profit or if the project wasn't of benefit to the public at large
The Health Department will use the funds to partner with organizations in District B to promote various health initiatives (B-1-25)
HOT Team (B-2-25)
Super Neighborhood Donation (B-28-25)
The city council is being asked to officially accept the completed work on the Chelford City Diversion Package 2 project and authorize any final payment owed on the contract with Markel Insurance Company.
The city is being asked to officially accept the completed waterproofing work done at the City Hall Annex Garage and authorize any final payment owed to the contractor, Restocon Corporation.
The council approved up to $540,613.96 for the Houston Health Department to purchase Hepatitis C virus testing equipment and supplies from DiaSorin, Inc. through a federal cooperative purchasing agreement, with the contract running through November 8, 2030.
The City Council is re-adopting the rules and criteria that govern when Houston can enter into tax abatement agreements, as required under a specific chapter of the city's municipal code.
The City Council voted to deny SiEnergy Gas, LLC's request to raise natural gas rates in Houston, keeping the current rates in place.
The city is setting aside $500,000 from its Public Health construction fund and amending an existing contract with Structure Tone Southwest LLC to manage construction at the Holcombe Lab Expansion Project.