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Bob Lanier Public Works Building is a 410 ft (125 m) tall skyscraper in Houston, Texas. It was completed in 1968 and has 27 floors. It is the 41st tallest building in the city. Eero Saarinen's CBS Building in New York City inspired the design for this building. It was named after Houston mayor Bob Lanier who served between 1992 and 1998.
Houston City Council voted in January 2008 to have Clutterbuck serve as a representative for the City of Houston on the board of directors of the Houston-Galveston Area Council (H-GAC). H-GAC is a 13-county regional consortium that works on finding solutions to issues affecting our collective areas, this includes: transportation, air quality ...
The Bob Lanier Public Works Building, located in downtown Houston, was originally known as the "Electric Building". Completed in 1968, it had been the headquarters of electricity provider, Houston Lighting and Power (HL&P). In 1999, the City of Houston acquired the building and renovated it to house various city government office, including the ...
The cost of the project was $100,000. As one of his first action as Mayor, Whitmire ordered Houston Public Works to remove the safety improvements and return Houston Avenue to five lanes. Houston Public Works spent $230,000 to reverse the safety improvements and an additional $500,000 to repave the road. [46] Following the Houston Avenue fiasco ...
In 2009 there was an election for the City Controller of Houston to succeed Annise Parker. Ronald Green, who was also a member of the city council, defeated Khan in the runoff election. [4] [5] In December 2014, Khan was elected president of the Islamic Society of Greater Houston (ISGH), defeating Hashim Badat. [citation needed]
Brown also advanced the city's affirmative action program; installed programs in city libraries to provide access to the Internet; built the state-of-the-art Houston Emergency Communications Center; implemented e-government, and opened new parks. Brown led trade missions for the business community to other countries and promoted international ...
Beginning with the tenure of Bob Lanier, the city charter imposed term limits on officeholders of no more than three terms (six years total). [1] On November 3, 2015, voters approved Proposition 2, which extended the terms of the Mayor, City Controller and City Councilmembers to four years, while imposing a limit of two terms.
Brown had previously served as Commissioner of Public Safety, in Atlanta, Georgia. In Houston, he introduced the concept of Community Policing, creating improved relationships between the police department and the various diverse communities of the city. He left Houston in 1990 to serve as Police Commissioner of New York City.