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The Houston City Council is a city council for the city of Houston in the U.S. state of Texas. The Council has sixteen members: eleven from council districts and five elected at-large. The members of the Council are elected every four years, with the most recent election being held in 2023 and the next being held in 2027.
The Memorial Villages and a portion of the city of Houston are also located within the district. The district was created in the redistricting after the 2020 census, where Texas gained two seats in the House. The district was first contested in the 2022 House elections, sending a member to the 118th United States Congress. [4] [3]
Texas's 18th congressional district of the United States House of Representatives includes much of inner city Houston and the surrounding area. It has been the Downtown Houston district since 1972. The district seat is currently vacant, but was previously represented by Democrat Sylvester Turner before his death.
Pollard was born in Southwest Houston, and attended Houston Independent School District schools. He attended Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia on a basketball scholarship. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in political science. He played professional basketball internationally in Singapore, Chile, and other South American countries.
In 2015 the Brays Oaks Super Neighborhood, a City of Houston-defined area with different boundaries from the management district, had 64,548 people. 45% were non-Hispanic black, 33% were Hispanic or Latino, 13% were non-Hispanic White, 6% were non-Hispanic Asian, and 2% were non-Hispanic others. The per square mile population was 8.160. [16]
District council members elected to the Houston City Council have been past presidents of the Sharpstown Civic Association – John Goodner (1980–1993), Ray Driscoll (1994–1999), Mark Ellis (2000–2003), M.J. Khan (2004–2010), and Aloysius Hoang (2010/11 – prior to the City of Houston redistricting). As of 2011, Sharpstown was ...
Houston's municipal charter of 1840 recognized a square area of 9 square miles, which was divided into four wards. Though the surveyors chose the Harris County Courthouse as the geographical center of Houston, the ward boundaries were formed by two axes converging at the corner of Main and Congress Streets. These resulted in four pie-shaped ...
Amanda serves on the advisory council of Accelerator for America and has served on the Board of Directors for National League of Cities to Houston Exponential; [22] and Project Row Houses. Edwards is a member of the Houston Chapter of The Links; [23] and a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. [24] She is Catholic. [25]