The City of Houston will conduct combined public meetings on the City’s FY2012 Annual Operating Budget Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) and 2012 Annual Consolidated Plan. Since 1984, the City has held public meetings to obtain citizen input before preparation of the operating budget and capital improvement plan. These meetings provide citizens the opportunity to participate [...]
Parker Elementary is raising $80,000 to send almost 75 students to Minneapolis, MN for the Performing Strings group to perform at the Suzuki of the Americas International Conference in May. You can donate via their website: www.parkerelementary.com or by contacting the magnet office at (713) 726-2122 Parker Elementary School's performing strings group will perform for [...]
ECHOS—Epiphany Community Health Outreach Services—was formed in 1999, as an organized response to health and social services needs in the increasingly ethnically diverse area of southwest Houston. […]
Here are a couple of videos about the 2011 Candidates Forum and Real Estate Forum. […]
The mission of PAIR (Partnership for the Advancement and Immersion of Refugees) is to empower refugee youth to reach their highest potential by connecting them with college and community volunteers to build positive mentoring relationships and provide educational programs that offer academic enrichment, cross-cultural understanding, and the resources and motivation to pursue higher education and [...]
2011 was another year of significant progress in the District in all of our service areas. Our seven year journey of District revitalization was most evident when we were notified that the Houston Association of Realtors (HAR) had agreed to our request to use our District boundaries as a distinct geographic area. […]
The District is working on implementation of a new initiative to encourage relocation ideally in the District and Houston and our surrounding area in general. […]
Early in 2011 the District team began working with the Houston Association of Realtors (HAR) on their new mapping system that was under development. […]
The District is very active in removing the visual blight caused by graffiti. Graffiti abated by the District is color matched and chronicled for HPD investigations. To date the District has abated over 1,300 individual inci- dents of graffiti. […]
“The District really has a lot to be proud of – old alliances and new partnerships have really made all the difference” says David Hawes, Executive Director of the Brays Oaks District. This year the District solidified its commitment to public safety by partnering with HPD by funding of mobile camera emplacements, running statistical analysis [...]
