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Council Member, District C

Joe Panzarella

Sworn in May 27, 2026 after winning a special election runoff · Term ends Jan 2028

District A — Amy PeckADistrict B — Tarsha JacksonBDistrict C — Joe PanzarellaCDistrict D — Carolyn Evans-ShabazzDDistrict E — Fred FlickingerEDistrict F — Tiffany ThomasFDistrict G — Mary Nan HuffmanGDistrict H — Mario CastilloHDistrict I — Joaquin MartinezIDistrict J — Edward PollardJDistrict K — Martha Castex-TatumK

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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.

Source: City of Houston — City Government ↗

A renewable-energy data analyst and longtime Fourth Ward–Freedmen's Town community organizer, raised in Kingwood. He has said his push for community resilience began helping his parents recover after Hurricane Harvey flooding. Represents the Heights, Montrose, Rice-area and Fourth Ward neighborhoods.

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Now
Council Member, Houston City Council District C (Houston City Council District C — About the Council Member ↗)
Work
Renewable energy developer leading data analysis for procurement on multi-million-dollar solar, wind, and battery projects; Bachelor's degree from the University of Texas at Austin and a Master's degree from Università Bocconi. (Houston City Council District C — About the Council Member ↗)

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Election watch

No filing on record yet for 2027.

Contact & office

Mail
900 Bagby, City Hall Annex, 1st Floor, Houston, TX 77002

Verified from the City of Houston directory. Office hours and town halls aren't published in our records yet.

What the record shows

Present at 6 of 6 council meetings the minutes place them on council (Oct 2025 – Oct 2026).

No absence recorded at roll call in these minutes. We have 47 meetings in total; the 6 counted here are the ones where the roll call names this member, so a seat taken mid-period isn't measured against meetings before it.

Recorded on 1367 of 1374 votes taken at those meetings.

The minutes note them absent on 7 individual votes.

What those votes were about

190 decided items while they held the seat, by topic.

Utilities48
Contracts & spending45
Drainage & flooding18
Housing & zoning15
Transportation15
Public safety12

Counted from the City Secretary's minutes. Where the minutes don't record a member either way, we don't guess. These are counts of what happened, not a judgment of it — and we publish no party-agreement figures for city council, which is elected on a nonpartisan ballot and decides most items on a near-unanimous consent agenda.

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.

FY2026: $1,015,236 approved · $369,888 spent · 41 projects (part-year)FY2025: $1,120,053 approved · $388,656 spent · 48 projectsFY2024: $876,893 approved · $256,839 spent · 48 projects

FY2026 figures are the city's March 25, 2026 snapshot — spending recorded after that date isn't in this workbook yet, so treat FY2026 as a part-year total.

FY2026 · Operating · C-4-26

Ditch maintenance/regrading projects in locations in District C (C-15-25)

$125,000 approved · nothing spent as of March 25, 2026

FY2026 · Capital · C-2-26

Public Charging in District C in partnership with the Downtown District (C-2-25)

$100,000 approved · $100,000 spent as of March 25, 2026

FY2026 · Operating · C-20-26

Metropolitan (West Gray) Multi-Service Center

$100,000 approved · $100,000 spent as of March 25, 2026

FY2026 · Operating · C-21-26

Air monitor subscription for sites in District C

$90,000 approved · nothing spent as of March 25, 2026

FY2026 · Capital · C-25-26

Central Division Overtime

$75,000 approved · $33,093 spent as of March 25, 2026

Straight from the City of Houston's council district budget summaries ↗ (FY2015–FY2026 dashboard workbooks). "Approved" is the maximum the member signed off on; "spent" is expenses recorded as of the date each workbook was published — the city updates them a few times a year, so recent figures lag. 3 projects are carried over from an earlier year and published in both workbooks; year totals above match the city's books, and totals spanning years count each project once.

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PASSED2026-10-13

This ordinance sets the property tax rate for the City of Houston for the year 2026, establishing how ad valorem (property-based) taxes will be assessed, levied, and collected.

Individual vote recorded in official minutes

PASSED2026-10-13

The Administration & Regulatory Affairs Department recommends designating the 1200 block of Arlington Street as a Residential Parking Permit Area.

Individual vote recorded in official minutes

PASSED2026-10-13

The City Council is authorizing payment of recertification fees for Houston Fire Department firefighters to the Texas Commission on Fire Protection, totaling $381,513.00.

Individual vote recorded in official minutes

PASSED2026-10-13

The City Council approved up to $542,563.00 to buy one submersible pump and two waste activated sludge pumps from Pump Solutions, Inc. through a cooperative purchasing program.

Individual vote recorded in official minutes

PASSED2026-10-13

The city council is increasing the spending cap on an existing contract with Coit Cleaning & Restoration Services for pressure washing and paint restriping at Houston airports, raising the limit from $140,000.00 to $226,000.00.

Individual vote recorded in official minutes

PASSED2026-10-13

The City Council approved the issuance of special revenue bonds to fund terminal improvement projects for United Airlines at Houston's airport system. The ordinance also authorizes related lease amendments, trust agreements, and disclosure documents, and declares an emergency.

Individual vote recorded in official minutes

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