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Sugar Land City Council will meet at 5:30 p.m. April 19 at 2700 Town Center Blvd. N., Sugar Land. Meetings are livestreamed and in person. 281-275-2900. www.sugarlandtx.gov Missouri City City Council will meet at 7 p.m. April 18 at 1522 Texas Parkway, Missouri City. Meetings are livestreamed and in person. 281-403-8500. www.missouricitytx.gov Fort Bend County Commissioners Court will meet at 1 p.m. April 12 at 401 Jackson St., Richmond. Meetings are livestreamed and in person. 281-342-3411. www.fortbendcountytx.gov MEETINGSWE COVER LOCAL HIGHLIGHTS FORTBENDCOUNTY The COVID-19 risk level for Fort Bend County was lowered from yellow, or a moderate community risk, to green, or minimum community risk, at a March 21 press conference. Changing the risk level to green means the possibility of exposure to COVID-19 is minimal and controlled and that new chains of transmission are rare, per the county’s coronavirus website.
Missouri Citymoves forward with nearly $11M in infrastructure bond projects
County officials push for extended polling hours for election
BY HUNTER MARROW
FUNDEDPROJECTS
BY ASIA ARMOUR
MISSOURI CITY At a March 21 meeting, Missouri City City Council approved the sale of newly authorized general obligation bonds worth $10.89 million to fund the city’s future infrastructure projects. The funds come from the city’s November bond election and unissued general obligation bonds from past voter-approved elections in 2003 and 2014, according to the city’s March 21 agenda report. The bonds will fund drainage, facilities, streets and parks projects, per agenda documents. Projects include $2 million to rehabilitate Kitty Hollow Dam, $2.82 million for a Knight Road mobil- ity project, park maintenance projects across the city worth $1.4 million, and $500,000 to design the city’s Sta-Mo Sports Complex. The council approved a not-to- exceed amount of $20 million, which includes $10.89 million in newly
FORTBENDCOUNTY Officials advocated at the Commissioners Court meeting March 22 for extend- ing election polling hours after learning that the 23 early-voting locations for the May 7 elections will be open from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. County Judge KP George asked for different polling locations to have different hours of operations. How- ever, county Elections Administrator John Oldham said that would be ille- gal due to the new Texas Legislature bills requiring polling locations to be open a minimum of nine hours, only open between 6 a.m.-9 p.m. and located inside a building, among other laws. Instead, commissioners approved new voting hours for all sites. All sites will be open 8 a.m.-7 p.m. April 25-29, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. April 30, and May 2-3 from 7 a.m.-7 p.m.
$2 million for a rehabilitation project at Kitty Hollow Dam $2.82 million for a Fort Bend mobility project on Knight Road $1.4 million for park maintenance projects $500,000 for design costs for the Sta-Mo Sports Complex Missouri City will move forward on several projects from its 2021 bond.
SOURCE: MISSOURI CITY/COMMUNITY IMPACT NEWSPAPER
issued bonds and $8.93 million in refunding bonds. With the bond sales approved by council, Missouri City will send a tran- script of the sale to the Texas attorney general for review, said Allena Portis, the city’s director of financial services during the meeting. Should that review be successful, Missouri City would have those funds by April 19.
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