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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 Housing Authority (HHA), formerly Housing Authority of the City of Houston (HACH), is the public housing authority in Houston, Texas.. The Mayor of Houston appoints the board of directors of the HHA, but it itself is not a department of the city government.
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 ...
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 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.
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 ...
Nov. 28—Kevin Poole has resigned from his public works director position with the city of Clarkston. Mayor Monika Lawrence made the brief announcement at Monday night's council meeting, which ...
Public works is a multi-dimensional concept in economics and politics, touching on multiple arenas including: recreation (parks, beaches, trails), aesthetics (trees, green space), economy (goods and people movement, energy), law (police and courts), and neighborhood (community centers, social services buildings).