2026 Community Project Funding

Agriculture

  • Project: Tomball Fire Rescue 100ft Aerial Ladder
  • Intended Recipient: The City of Tomball, TX
  • Address: 401 Market St. – Tomball, TX 77375
  • Amount: $2,900,000
  • Request Explanation: Tomball continues to be a fast-growing community and requires all that all areas of a municipality’s responsibility to grow to meet the needs of the community.  Replacement of the fire apparatus is essential to maintain high levels of safety of the public and is one of the most important pieces of equipment that fire fighters need to perform their jobs effectively and safely.  The service life of these pieces of equipment at the City of Tomball are set at 20 years, and the ladder fire apparatus is nearing the end of it’s serviceable life and a new one is needed.  The plan is to purchase a new ladder and move the existing ladder in a reserve capacity to provide redundancy and help ensure the ability of our fire fighters to respond to a fire of any level.

 

Commerce – Justice – Science

  • Project: Houston Police Department Grappler and In-Car Camera Initiative
  • Intended Recipient: Houston Police Department
  • Address: 1200 Travis St. – Houston, TX 77002
  • Amount: $3,110,000
  • Request Explanation: This request would allow the Houston Police Department to purchase 25 SUV patrol vehicles each outfitted with a grappler device and additional interior car cameras (186 in total) with audio and video recording. The grappler devices deploy a nylon net to stop suspects fleeing from the police that will help prevent potentially dangerous pursuits. The Grappler device attaches to a Chevy Tahoe vehicle. Additionally, In-car video, combined with body-worn camera videos, has increased the level and quality of digital evidence available in DWI cases, thereby augmenting adjudication of those cases. This is a valuable use of taxpayer funds as the funding of this project will greatly increase public safety in the soon-to-be third largest city in the United States.

 

  • Project: Houston Police Department Domestic Abuse Response Team Patrol Initiative
  • Intended Recipient: Houston Police Department
  • Address: 1200 Travis St. – Houston, TX 77002
  • Amount: $2,000,000
  • Request Explanation: The Houston Police Department’s (HPD) Domestic Abuse Response Team (DART) addresses a critical need for comprehensive crisis intervention in high-risk domestic violence situations. The DART program is a multidisciplinary team that pairs specially trained law enforcement officers with civilian victim advocates to respond directly to the scenes of intimate partner violence. The primary goal of this project is to provide immediate crisis intervention, as well as long-term support and resources for victims and their families

 

  • Project: HPD Protecting Our Own Citywide Ballistic Helmet Initiative
  • Intended Recipient: Houston Police Department
  • Address: 1200 Travis St. – Houston, TX 77002
  • Amount: $1,750,000
  • Request Explanation: The Houston Police Department is responsible for protecting its most important asset, which is its officers. Additionally, with the increase in active attack/shooter incidents locally as well as throughout Texas and the United States, it is more important than ever to provide officers with the tools to stop these threats and save lives. Even the response to school shootings has changed based on the increased numbers of events and deaths associated with them. As we learned in the Uvalde school shooting, time is not on your side in an active attack/shooter event. To save lives, officers must get to the shooter or shooters as soon as possible and have the training and tools to stop the threat and save lives. To successfully address violent crime, the Houston Police Department must protect the safety of its’ officers while working within tight budgetary constraints.

 

Interior and Environment

  • Project: Jersey Village Water and Wastewater Line Rehabilitation and Replacement Project
  • Intended Recipient: The City of Jersey Village, TX
  • Address: 16327 Lakeview Dr. – Jersey Village, TX
  • Amount: $2,000,000

  • Request Explanation: The City of Jersey Village is undertaking a critical infrastructure project to replace approximately 99,000 linear feet of aging water and wastewater lines, some of which are over 40 years old. This proactive initiative aims to prevent potential collapses or breaks that could lead to environmental contamination. By upgrading these essential lines, we ensure the continued provision of safe drinking water and effective wastewater treatment, safeguarding the health and well-being of our community residents. At its core, the project directly contributes to the health and safety of the community by ensuring the continued provision of safe drinking water and the effective treatment of wastewater. Preventing contamination of drinking water and local environments is crucial for preventing waterborne diseases and safeguarding public health, aligning with federal priorities for community well-being.

     

  • Project: Cypress Park Regional Stormwater Detention Basin
  • Intended Recipient: Harris County Flood Control District
  • Address: 9900 Northwest Freeway – Houston, TX 77092
  • Amount: $10,000,000

  • Request Explanation: This funding request is for the design of a large stormwater detention basin, located in the Cypress Creek watershed near the confluence with Little Cypress Creek. The proposed detention basin will be the largest of the 22 stormwater detention basins prioritized in the Cypress Creek Implementation Plan. Preliminary engineering and design work must be conducted to analyze the site and choose the most efficient and beneficial project alternative.

     

  • Project: Schiel Road Stormwater Detention Basin
  • Intended Recipient: Harris County Flood Control District
  • Address: 9900 Northwest Freeway – Houston, TX 77092
  • Amount: $5,000,000
  • Request Explanation: The Schiel Detention Basin is a key component of the Little Cypress Creek Floodplain Program (LCCFP), which encompasses approximately 35,000 feet of channel modifications and the development of nine detention basins. Once completed, the Schiel project will be the largest basin within the LCCFP, with an ultimate storage capacity exceeding 7,000 acre-feet, among the very largest basins in Harris County. This detention basin will receive inflows of stormwater where constructed plunge pools with native wetland vegetation will function to treat and clean the stormwater. The pools will settle out solids while the native vegetation will provide habitat for aquatic species that filter and clean stormwater. While a future Preliminary Engineering Report (PER) will further refine the project’s benefits, the overall goal of the Little Cypress Creek Master Drainage Plan is to eliminate almost all the out-of-bank floodplain in its ultimate form. When complete, this basin and related improvements along Little Cypress Creek will provide significant flood benefits to homes and business in the area; specific details will be clarified in the project’s drainage analysis using MaapNext and Atlas 14 100-year floodplain data. The neighborhoods in this area have experienced repetitive flooding due to storm events such as the Tax Day flood in 2016 and Hurricane Harvey in 2017.

 

ENERGY AND WATER

  • Project: Port Houston Project 12: Houston Ship Channel Deepening Feasibility Study
  • Intended Recipient: Army Corps of Engineers   
  • Address: 2000 Fort Point Rd. Galveston, TX
  • Amount: $1,500,000

  • Request Explanation: This request is to study the needed improvements to safety and navigation in the Houston Ship Channel. Following WRDA 2024 project authorization, the Port of Houston Authority (Port Houston), in partnership with the Port of Galveston and Texas City, support FY26 congressional appropriation to fund the feasibility study to deepen the ship channels (up to 60 feet) and barge lanes (up to 20 feet) in the full Galveston Bay area of Texas. The needed navigation improvements — in the Galveston Bay entrance, and the Houston and Galveston Harbor, and Texas City ship channels, harbors and barge lanes — are critical to maintaining safety and improving the energy industry, supply chain, and economic growth for the region and the nation.

     

  • Project: Galveston Ship Channel O&M Dredging
  • Intended Recipient: Army Corps of Engineers   
  • Address: 2000 Fort Point Rd. Galveston, TX
  • Amount: $39,128,400

  • Request Explanation:The funds will be used for the critical need of operational and maintenance dredging of the Galveston Ship Channel for safe navigable waters. Funding gaps have resulted in delayed routine maintenance dredging, thus posing a significant threat to the safe and efficient navigation of commercial vessels, jeopardizing the economic vitality of the supply chain region and beyond.

     

Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development           

  • Project: Interstate 10 Gateway Lighting
  • Intended Recipient: Harris County Improvement District 4
  • Address: 777 North Eldridge Parkway suite 270
  • Amount: $4,000,000

  • Request Explanation:The Energy Corridor District (Harris County Improvement District 4) for the Interstate 10 Gateway Lighting project that will install electrical conduit and lighting at three major intersections underneath the elevated Interstate 10 (IH-10) in the heart of the Energy Corridor. The proposed intersections are IH-10 and N. Dairy Ashford Road, IH-10 and N. Eldridge Parkway, and IH-10 and State Highway 6. The electrical installation and lighting will be placed on columns of the existing overpasses, illuminating the right-of-way. These improvements are critical public safety measures necessary for safe public spaces, pedestrian crossings, and vehicular turning movements. Additionally, these improvements promote public safety by illuminating city right-of-way while also enhancing the Energy Corridor District aesthetics. IH-10 runs through the Energy Corridor, creating a barrier through one of Houston's major activity centers. With these improvements, the right-of-way underneath IH-10 will be a safe, well-lit space that supports better community connectivity.

     

  • Project: West Side Infrastructure Project
  • Intended Recipient: City of Hedwig Village
  • Address: 955 Piney Point Rd. Houston, TX 77024
  • Amount: $15,000,000

  • Request Explanation:The City of Hedwig Village is requesting $15 million for the West Side Infrastructure Project for the design and construction of roadway, sidewalk, and drainage improvements to upgrade antiquated infrastructure and utilities in the southwestern portion of the City.

     

  • Project: Phase 2: Road, Utility, and Drainage Improvements and Extension of South Persimmon and Timkin Street
  • Intended Recipient: City of Tomball
  • Address: 401 Market St. Tomball, TX 77375
  • Amount: $25,000,000

  • Request Explanation:S. Persimmon Road currently connects to FM 2920 (Main St.) and extends south to the city limits which is Holderrieth Road. This corridor is an important north-south minor arterial for the eastern portion of the city and as shown on the City of Tomball master throughfare plan, it connects to the city of Tomball‚ its business and technology park on the south end to Main Street (FM 2920). Timkin Road extends from S. Chestnut Road to Persimmon but it is identified to extend east to Hufsmith Krohville. School traffic is increasing greatly by expansions to Concordia Lutheran High School (private school) which uses Timkin as a main corridor for their students especially during dismissal of school and for their athletic facilities. Tomball Independent School District (TISD) has purchased the BJ Services campus (previously oil and gas servicing company campus) which will house TISD‚ its Innovation Center and a new elementary on the se corner of the property (construction to begin 2025). This increase of traffic does not have clear access to enough signalized intersections to get across FM 2920 (Main St.) safely. A project widening Persimmon from FM 2920 south to Lizzie Lane will allow for additional capacity for traffic and will improve drainage conveyance for the area. The extension of Timkin, tying into Persimmon, to Hufsmith Krohville will connect the new TISD elementary school as well as provide the TISD Innovation Center more accessibility to signalized intersections. Regionally these improvements will provide the city with a safer major north-south arterial, creating more safe capacity for school and commercial traffic. This sector of Tomball continues to develop with many residential subdivisions as well.

     

  • Project: Memorial Drive Street and Drainage Reconstruction
  • Intended Recipient: Harris County Precinct 3
  • Address: 1001 Preston St. suite 924. Houston, TX 77002
  • Amount: $15,000,000

  • Request Explanation:The project is a reconstruction of the busiest street in the city, which has exceeded its useful serviceable life. This is one of the busiest and oldest east/west thoroughfares on the west side of the metro area. Approximately 1.7 miles lie within the city of Hunters Creek Village. For decades, the road has been repaired and rehabilitated but has exceeded its serviceable life and needs full reconstruction.

     

  • Project: Hufsmith-Kohrville Road Widening and Bridge Reconstruction
  • Intended Recipient: Harris County Precinct 3
  • Address: 1001 Preston St. suite 924. Houston, TX 77002
  • Amount: $8,000,000

  • Request Explanation:The Hufsmith-Kohrville Road Segment 3B reconstruction project is necessary to improve the roadway and intersection level of service, remove an existing dangerous curve, and improve drainage. The existing 2-lane asphalt roadway with a roadside ditch lacks the capacity for the nearly 19,000 vehicles that use Hufsmith-Kohrville Road as the only north-south thoroughfare between SH-99 and the City of Tomball. The project will widen the roadway to a 4-lane concrete boulevard with a storm sewer and a raised median. The new alignment will remove a dangerous S curve near Willow Creek and construct twin bridges to replace the current 2-lane bridge that frequently floods. The intersection at Holderrieth Road will also be reconstructed and provide much needed level-of-service improvements.

     

  • Project: Voss Rd. Safety Improvement Project
  • Intended Recipient: Harris County Precinct 4
  • Address: 1001 Preston St. suite 924. Houston, TX 77002
  • Amount: $7,000,000
  • Request Explanation:The Voss Road Safety Improvement Project aims to rehabilitate Voss Road between San Felipe Street and Westheimer Road through full pavement replacement, improving safety and mobility along this heavily traveled corridor.