The County Connection Lina Hidalgo | Harris County Judge July 2021     I am happy to report that last week we reached a huge milestone in our work to beat the COVID-19 pandemic in Harris County -- over half of our eligible population ages 12 and up has been fully vaccinated and 60% has received [...]

    Name Our Library Poll Opens Today !   District K Friends,   As we get closer to starting construction of our new library coming to 5505 Belrose Dr. we must determine a name. The Library Naming Committee has narrowed the over 300 suggestions to five choices. The city wide poll is now open. [...]

  District K Residents,   Last week, Houston City Council voted to increase water and wastewater rates in a 12-4 vote. The new rates will go into effect on September 1, 2021 instead of the original July 1, 2021 proposed date. The increase will help to improve infrastructure and meet federally required guidelines to address [...]

What Texas Employers Should Know About Safety Wednesday, June 23 | 10:00am CDT   CLICK HERE TO JOIN LIVE Join SBA and The Texas Department of Insurance’s Texas Occupational Safety Consultation (OSHCON) to learn about the program designed to help small, private sector Texas employers understand and comply with Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) [...]

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  Happy Juneteenth 2021   This year marks the 156th anniversary of the date that news of the Emancipation Proclamation first reached Texas and was read aloud in Galveston on June 19,1865—two years after it had become U.S. law.   The moment was significant. Texas had been the last of the Confederate states in which [...]