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August 5, 2025 in Community NewsletterEventsImportant Reminders

Budget Survey Open and Ready!

As you may know, Harris County is facing a big budget challenge.  For the upcoming 2026 fiscal year, county leaders expect to have $270 million less than what is needed to keep all services running as they are today because of rising costs and the loss of federal funds.

Harris County Precinct 2 wants to hear from you about which county services are most important to keep, where you think the county could make some cuts, and whether you would support raising taxes to avoid these cuts.  Your feedback will help guide tough decisions in the months ahead.

To lend your input to the budget-making process, please take3-5 minutes to complete this brief, anonymous survey.   To participate, you must be:

  • 18 years old or older
  • A resident or business owner in Harris County Precinct 2

If you meet these qualifications and wish to have your data combined with others to inform the budget-making process underway in Harris County, please click on the link below to the Precinct 2 Kinder Institute FY26  or use the attached QR Code:

https://riceuniversity.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_78v6udqfrCsX4W2

We appreciate your participation and encourage you to share the survey at hand with others.

Javier Frutos – Community Liaison

Southeast/Greater Hobby/Sagemont/Southbelt

Community Relations Department

Direct: 713.540.7827

July 30, 2025 in Community NewsletterEventsImportant RemindersNeighborhood News

South Richey Road Rehabilitation Scheduled to Begin Monday, August 11th

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – JULY 30,2025

HOUSTON – Council Member Fred Flickinger would like to make residents aware that Houston Public Works will begin a road rehabilitation project along South Richey Street from Queens Road to Galveston Road starting Monday, July 11, weather permitting. The scope of work includes milling and overlaying South Richey Street, aimed at enhancing roadway conditions and improving long-term mobility in the area. The project cost is $1,400,000 and is funded through the City of Houston’s Dedicated Drainage and Street Renewal Fund.

The project is anticipated to be completed by Monday, September 22, 2025, weather permitting. Construction activities are expected to take place Monday through Friday from 6:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. and weekends as needed.

As a result of the construction activities, please be aware of flagmen and orange traffic cones that will be put in place on-site to help with traffic flow through the construction zone as the project will require the street to be temporarily inaccessible while work is being done. No disruptions in services are expected.

For more information, please contact Council Member Flickinger’s office at (832) 393-3008 or districte@houstontx.gov.

July 1, 2025 in EventsImportant Reminders

Engagement with community members for Port Houston Listening Tour

Event Date: Saturday, July 12th

Time: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM (2 hours)

Location: Gazebo area at Oak Meadows Park

Purpose: Engage directly with community members to gather feedback for our Listening Tour

Outreach: Invite neighboring communities from Meadowbrook/Allendale, Magnolia Park, and Harrisburg

Extras: We’ll bring the Kona Ice shaved ice truck and raffle prizes to help draw in families and encourage participation

The focus of our Listening Tour is to give community members an opportunity to share what matters most to them—what they care about, what their priorities are, and how Port Houston can better serve, support, and respond to their needs. Each response is incredibly valuable in helping us ensure our programs, initiatives, and investments are aligned with the needs of the communities across our operational footprint. To support this, please share the digital survey linked below with your networks and encourage them to complete it.

Link to digital survey (can be shared): Port Houston Survey https://share.hsforms.com/1JumiUudDTqKS8e2F0WOR-Q1bv71

April 6, 2025 in Community NewsletterEventsImportant Reminders

Heavy Trash – Junk Waste

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TREE WASTE & Bulk Waste
Residents may dispose of Tree Waste and Bulk Waste curbside. Tree Waste is collected during ODD numbered months and Bulk Waste is collected during EVEN numbered months. This method of collecting large waste items comes with the benefit of diverting materials that can be recycled, away from landfills, saving landfill space and valuable tax dollars. 

Tree Waste
“Tree Waste” is defined as “clean” wood waste such as tree limbs, branches, and stumps. Lumber, furniture, and treated wood will NOT be accepted.

Service Alert Bulk Waste may NOT be placed for collection during a Tree Waste month. Tree Waste months are January, March, May, July, September, and November.

Bulk Waste

“Bulk Waste” is defined as items such as furniture, appliances, and other bulky material.

Tree Waste is accepted during Bulk Waste Months; however, to ensure your Tree Waste is recycled, you may hold your tree waste materials until the next Tree Waste designated month or take it to a Neighborhood Depository/Recycling Center.

Bulk Waste months are February, April, June, August, October and December.

February 11, 2025 in Events

INVISTA Opens $13M Technology Hub in Houston

Texas Technology Center to support Nylon and Propylene businesses

KATY, Texas – As part of its ongoing commitment to innovation and creating increased value for customers, INVISTA today celebrated the grand opening of the Texas Technology Center (TTC), a $13M technology hub and research and development center in the Houston metro area.

The nearly 40,000-square-foot facility located in Katy, Texas, which INVISTA first announced in August of last year, will have more than 50 members of R&D, Engineering and Advanced Process Control teams supporting INVISTA’s global technology needs in the chemical intermediates and polymer product lines for both the Nylon and Propylene businesses, as well as data scientists and members of INVISTA’s EHS, transformation and project teams. The hub will house outstanding analytical and experimental capabilities that will rapidly advance INVISTA’s programs through the development cycle.

“The Texas Technology Center now provides a hub for innovative projects and partnerships that will help keep us on the cutting edge of our industry,” said Jerry Grunewald, vice president of research and development for INVISTA. “At INVISTA, we’re committed to harnessing the power of innovation to meet the needs of our customers, and this R&D center in the growing Houston metro area is going to be a large part of how we do that in the future.”

Several leaders from INVISTA joined the ceremonies, including INVISTA’s President and CEO, Brook Vickery, who said, “Touring the world-class R&D facilities at the Texas Technology Center today was impressive. The capability we now have under one roof in Texas will accelerate the teams’ contributions to advancing our businesses. I just visited our Asia Innovation Center in Shanghai earlier this year, and the world-class facilities we now have on both sides of the globe have me even more excited about the discoveries and developments our teams are making that will respond to our customers’ needs and drive innovation in our industry.”

The opening of the Texas Technology Center will support INVISTA’s utilization of highly advanced core technologies and the development of new and innovative products to meet unmet market needs.