Harris County may drop Hempstead funding

2010 Capital Improvement Plan

Jay Blazek Crossley, Jun 21, 10.

Harris County Commissioners will review the proposed FY2010-11 Capital Improvement Plan and FY 2010-11 County-wide budget on Tuesday, June 22, 2010, apparently removing all funding for the proposed Hempstead Managed Lanes while allocating funding for the Grand Parkway Segments E, F-1, F-2, and G.

The Citizens’ Transportation Coalition has sent an email (reposted with comments by OfftheKuff) explaining their opposition to pursuing the Grand Parkway as opposed to the Hempstead Managed Lane Project.

While the City of Houston has been going through its budgeting process over the past month with a series of public meetings with various department leaders explaining their budgeting decisions, Harris County published their draft budget as a series of pdf links on the web page containing the Commissioners’ Court agenda on Friday, June 18th. Commissioners are expected to vote on these items on Tuesday.  The posted draft Capital Improvement Plan is a 5-page memo that could be considered an executive summary for the actual full Capital Improvement Plan budget, which does not seem to be available online for public review at this time. In contrast, the City of Houston holds a series of public meetings in each council district to discuss proposals for the CIP.

Harris County has posted various documents related to the current CIP and budget process at the Commissioner’s Court Agenda website. The following links may or may not work once the next agenda is posted.

FY 2010-11 Capital Improvements Program
Port of Houston Authority
Hospital District
Public Infrastructure
  Flood Control District
  Roads and Parks
  Buildings
  Toll Road Authority
Libraries
Sports & Convention Corporation
Population Report
Economic Report
Schedules

FY 2010-11 Budgets
Hospital District
Budget Letter
County Budgets
Policy Issues
Economic Report
Population Report
Auditor’s Revenue Estimate

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