Southwest Management District Board of Directors met Aug. 22

Southwest Management District Board of Directors met Aug. 22.

Here is the agenda provided by the board:

1. Determine quorum; call meeting to order. 

2. Receive public comments. (A statement of no more than 3 minutes may be made on items of general relevance. There will be no  yielding of time to another person. State law prohibits the Board Chair or members of the Board from commenting on any statement or engaging  in dialogue without an appropriate agenda item being posted in accordance with the Texas Open Meetings Law. Comments should be directed to  the entire Board, not individual members. Engaging in verbal attacks or comments intended to insult, abuse, malign or slander any individual shall  be cause for termination of time privileges.) 

3. Conduct election of officers: Chairman, Vice-Chairman, Secretary, and Assistant Secretary. 

4. Approve Minutes of meetings held July 25, 2022, and August 17, 2022. 

5. Receive Assessment Collection Report. 

6. Receive monthly financial report and approve payment of invoices. 

7. Receive update and recommendations from Public Safety Committee. 

a. Consider funding support for HPD Midwest to send two officers to TLEEAA Advisor Training. 

b. Consider the agreement to re-join the Harris County Attorney's Community  Protection/Nuisance Abatement Program. 

c. Consider funding support for HFD for 10 textbooks for fire marshall. 

8. Receive update and recommendations from Environmental and Urban Design Committee. 

a. Consider the Asphalt Art Agreement with the City of Houston Public Works. 

b. Consider sponsorship request from UpArt for its Big Wall Big Dreams Mural Festival. 

c. Consider task order from Price Wagener for repairs to damaged backflow on Fondren. 

d. Consider task order from Price Wagener for repairs to damaged irrigations in the District. 

e. Consider task order from Price Wagener to perform backflow tests as required by the City. 

f. Approve invoice from Price Wagener for irrigation repairs. 

g. Consider task order from SMC Landscaping for irrigation repairs on Bellaire Corridor. 

h. Consider endcap designs for Bellaire and Gessner and Bellaire and Beltway 8. 

i. Consider ordering safety vests and car magnets with the District’s logo from EV1. 

9. Receive update and recommendations from Business and Economic Development Committee. 

a. Consider sponsorship request from Houston Asiatown Tours for its Q4 tours and marketing for Southwest District. 

b. Consider sponsorship request from CHAT TX for its Fall Festival. 

c. Consider payment to Illumination Fireworks for the down payment for fireworks for the  LibertyFest scheduled on Sunday, July 2, 2023. 

10. Receive Executive Director’s Report. 

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