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Council Member, District E

Fred Flickinger

In office since 2024 · 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

Businessman representing Kingwood and Clear Lake — the district with two separate lobes on the map.

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Now
Council Member, Houston City Council District E; sworn into office January 2, 2024, serving his first term. (Houston City Council District E — About the Council Member ↗)
Before
President, Lake Houston Pachyderm Club. (Houston City Council District E — About the Council Member ↗)
Work
Owner of Flickinger Machine, a family business operating since 1978; previously an executive for a logistics corporation for 27 years. (Houston City Council District E — 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 31 of 33 council meetings the minutes place them on council (Oct 2025 – Aug 2026).

Recorded absent at roll call 2 times. We have 40 meetings in total; the 33 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 1310 of 1351 votes taken at those meetings.

The minutes note them absent on 41 individual votes.

What those votes were about

1012 decided items while they held the seat, by topic.

Utilities223
Contracts & spending208
Taxes & budget99
Housing & zoning95
Public safety83
Transportation72

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: $476,862 approved · $221,268 spent · 31 projects (part-year)FY2025: $634,190 approved · $584,471 spent · 36 projectsFY2024: $716,910 approved · $582,720 spent · 39 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 · E-28-26

Installing new crosswalks. New traffic signs and markings - El Dorado Blvd at Dunmoor Dr., El Dorado Blvd at Dunmoor Dr., El Dorado Blvd at Larkfield Dr

$54,486 approved · nothing spent as of March 25, 2026

FY2026 · Operating · E-3-26

Right of Way Mowing in District E

$50,000 approved · nothing spent as of March 25, 2026

FY2026 · Operating · E-21-26

Bay Area Houston Economic Partnership

$49,500 approved · $49,500 spent as of March 25, 2026

FY2026 · Operating · E-10-26

DON Neighborhood Grant Matching Program

$40,000 approved · nothing spent as of March 25, 2026

FY2026 · Operating · E-5-26

Kingwood METRO Park & Ride - monthly electronic recycling events

$37,500 approved · $25,450 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. 33 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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PASSED2026-08-25

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.

Individual vote recorded in official minutes

PASSED2026-08-25

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.

Individual vote recorded in official minutes

PASSED2026-08-25

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.

Individual vote recorded in official minutes

PASSED2026-08-25

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.

Individual vote recorded in official minutes

PASSED2026-08-25

The City Council voted to deny SiEnergy Gas, LLC's request to raise natural gas rates in Houston, keeping the current rates in place.

Individual vote recorded in official minutes

PASSED2026-08-25

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.

Individual vote recorded in official minutes

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Fred Flickinger — Council Member, District E — PlainDocket