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Council Member, District J

Edward Pollard

In office since 2020 · Term ends Jan 2028 (term-limited)

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 ↗

Attorney representing Sharpstown and Gulfton, geographically the smallest, densest district.

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Now
Council Member, Houston City Council District J (Houston City Council District J — About the Council Member ↗)
Work
BA in Political Science (with honors) from Morehouse College, where he played basketball on scholarship; Juris Doctorate (with honors, concentration in Government and Policy) from Thurgood Marshall School of Law; Certificate in Negotiation Mastery from Harvard Business School. Played professional basketball overseas in Singapore and Chile before founding the Pollard Legal Group, a civil litigation law firm in District J. (Houston City Council District J — 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 32 of 34 council meetings the minutes place them on council (Oct 2025 – Oct 2026).

Recorded absent at roll call 2 times. We have 47 meetings in total; the 34 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 1343 of 1374 votes taken at those meetings.

The minutes note them absent on 31 individual votes.

What those votes were about

1028 decided items while they held the seat, by topic.

Utilities219
Contracts & spending210
Housing & zoning106
Taxes & budget98
Public safety81
Transportation76

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: $907,124 approved · $323,345 spent · 33 projects (part-year)FY2025: $902,854 approved · $524,915 spent · 44 projectsFY2024: $1,006,002 approved · $603,148 spent · 58 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 · J-11-26

J-31-25 Heavy Trash Program

$167,507 approved · $92,633 spent as of March 25, 2026

FY2026 · Operating · J-24-26

RENEWAL: Continuation of the Supplemental Maintenance Team (J-22-25). This program does supplemental maintenance on the ROW, esplanades, medians, accessible ditches and other city property. This particular service will now include the clearing of storm drains throughout residential. Through the Department of Neighborhoods, as our sponsoring department, we will enter into an ILA with the Gulfton Management District Board. They have recently approved the project

$100,000 approved · nothing spent as of March 25, 2026

FY2026 · Operating · J-28-26

Beautification Team - partnership with the Gulfton Management District via an ILA

$100,000 approved · nothing spent as of March 25, 2026

FY2026 · Operating · J-10-26

Good Neighbor Program

$98,000 approved · nothing spent as of March 25, 2026

FY2026 · Operating · J-9-26

PSAs

$50,000 approved · $50,000 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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