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n City Ordinances
NOTICE IS HEREBY
GIVEN THAT AT A
REGULAR MEETING OF
THE CITY COUNCIL,
OF THE CITY OF
HOUSTON,
TEXAS,
HELD IN THE COUNCIL
CHAMBER, CITY HALL,
ON
WEDNESDAY,
NOVEMBER 5, 2014,
WHICH
CONVENED
AT
9:00
A.M.,
ORDINANCES
AND
RESOLUTIONS WERE
PASSED OF WHICH THE
FOLLOWING ARE THE
CAPTIONS:
2014-42 – A RESOLUTION
of the City Council of the
City of Houston supporting
rehabilitation of Gus
Wortham Park through a
Golf Course or a Botanical
Garden and containing
findings
and
other
provisions relating to the
foregoing subject.
2014-975
–
AN
ORDINANCE approving
and authorizing agreement
between the City of
Houston and WORK
FORCE SOLUTIONS to
offer participants, at the
Metropolitan Multi-Service
Center, assistance with
their employment searches
and career development
needs; containing provisions
relating to the subject; and
declaring an emergency.
2014-976
–
AN
ORDINANCE amending
Ordinance No. 2011-0278
(Passed on April 20, 2011)
to increase the maximum
contract
amount
for
contract between the City of
Houston and BOYER, INC
for Electrical Maintenance,
Repair, Automation Support
and Technical Services
for the Public Works &
Engineering Department;
containing
provisions
relating to the subject; and
declaring an emergency.
2014-977
–
AN
ORDINANCE consenting
to the addition of 6.3964
acres of land to FOREST
HILLS
MUNICIPAL
UTILITY DISTRICT, for
inclusion in its district; and
declaring an emergency.
2014-978
–
AN
ORDINANCE consenting
to the creation of HARRIS
COUNTY MUNICIPAL
UTILITY DISTRICT NO.
536; and declaring an
emergency.
2014-979
–
AN
ORDINANCE consenting to
the addition of 54.695 acres
of land to NORTHPOINTE
WATER
CONTROL
AND
IMPROVEMENT
DISTRICT, for inclusion in
its district; and declaring an
emergency.
2014-980
–
AN
ORDINANCE consenting
to the addition of 3.418
acres of land to REID
ROAD
MUNICIPAL
UTILITY DISTRICT NO.
1, for inclusion in its district;
and declaring an emergency.
2014-981
–
AN
O R D I N A N C E
appropriating $16,000.00
out of Metro Projects
Construction
DDSRF;
approving and authorizing
Advance
Funding
Agreement between the
City of Houston and the
TEXAS DEPARTMENT
OF TRANSPORTATION
for Installation of Fiber
Cable and Communications
Equipment at the Traffic
Operations Center, the
Communications Center,
and Houston TranStar;
containing
provisions
relating to the subject; and
declaring an emergency.
2014-982
–
AN
O R D I N A N C E
appropriating $5,998,879.00
out of Water & Sewer System
Consolidated Construction
Fund; awarding contract to
PORTLAND UTILITIES
CONSTRUCTION
COMPANY,
LLC
for
Sanitary
Sewer
Rehabilitation by Sliplining
and Pipe Bursting Methods;
setting a deadline for the
bidder’s execution of the
contract and delivery of
all bonds, insurance, and
other required contract
documents to the City;
holding the bidder in
default if it fails to meet the
deadlines; providing funding
for engineering and testing,
and contingencies relating
to construction of facilities
financed by the Water &
Sewer System Consolidated
Construction Fund; and
declaring an emergency.
2014-983
–
AN
O R D I N A N C E
appropriating the sum of
$2,612,200.00 out of the
Water & Sewer System
Consolidated Construction
Fund; awarding contract to
VACA UNDERGROUND
UTILITIES,
INC
for
Water Line Replacement
in East Tidwell Area;
setting a deadline for the
bidder’s execution of the
contract and delivery of
all bonds, insurance, and
other required contract
documents to the City;
holding the bidder in
default if it fails to meet
the deadlines; providing
funding for engineering,
testing, CIP Cost Recovery,
construction management
and contingencies relating
to construction of facilities
financed by Water &
Sewer System Consolidated
Construction Fund; and
declaring an emergency.
2014-984
–
AN
O R D I N A N C E
appropriating the sum of
$2,960,200.00 out of the
Water & Sewer System
Consolidated Construction
Fund, awarding contract to
TIKON GROUP, INC for
Water Line Replacement
in Yale Village Area;
setting a deadline for the
bidder’s execution of the
contract and delivery of
all bonds, insurance, and
other required contract
documents to the City;
holding the bidder in
default if it fails to meet
the deadlines; providing
funding for engineering,
testing, CIP Cost Recovery,
construction management
and contingencies relating
to construction of facilities
financed by the Water &
Sewer System Consolidated
Construction Fund; and
declaring an emergency.
2014-985
–
AN
O R D I N A N C E
appropriating the sum
of $1,837,406.11 out of
Water & Sewer System
Consolidated Construction
Fund, awarding contract to
CES UTILITIES, INC for
Fire Hydrant Replacement
Project; setting a deadline
for the bidder’s execution
of the contract and delivery
of all bonds, insurance,
and other required contract
documents to the City;
holding the bidder in
default if it fails to meet
the deadlines; providing
funding for engineering and
testing, and contingencies
relating to construction of
facilities financed by the
Water & Sewer System
Consolidated Construction
Fund; containing provisions
relating to the subject; and
declaring an emergency.
2014-43 – A RESOLUTION
approving the issuance
and sale by Harris CountyHouston Sports Authority
of Tax-Exempt and Taxable
Venue District Revenue
Refunding Bonds in one
or more series to refinance
and restructure Outstanding
Venue District Obligations
2014-986
–
AN
ORDINANCE approving
and authorizing a Lease
Agreement between the
City of Houston and
CONCESSIONS
OF
HOUSTON, INC for
Office and Warehouse
Space at George Bush
Intercontinental Airport;
and declaring an emergency.
2014-987
–
AN
ORDINANCE approving
and
authorizing
an
agreement between the
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subject; and declaring an relating to the subject; and
declaring an emergency.
emergency.
–
AN
2014-989
–
AN 2014-990
O
R
D
I
N
A
N
C
E
O R D I N A N C E
appropriating
the
sum
appropriating the sum of
$755,000.00 out of the of $1,606,700.00 out
Street & Traffic Control and of Metro Construction Storm Drainage DDSRF as Other, awarding contract to
an additional appropriation P^2MG, LLC dba P2MG,
to Professional Engineering LLC for Safe Sidewalk
Program; setting a deadline
Services Contract between
for the bidder’s execution
the City of Houston and
of the contract and delivery
IDS
ENGINEERING
of all bonds, insurance,
GROUP, INC for Arlington
and other required contract
Heights Area Drainage
documents to the City;
Improvements
(Sub- holding the bidder in
Project 1) (Approved by default if it fails to meet
Ordinance No. 2011-0508); the deadlines; providing
providing funding for CIP funding for engineering and
Cost Recovery relating to testing services, CIP Cost
construction of facilities Recovery, and contingencies
financed by the Street5.75"relating to construction
& Traffic Control and of facilities financed by
Storm Drainage DDSRF; the Metro Construction –
containing
provisions other; containing provisions
related to the subject; and
declaring an emergency.
2014-991
–
AN
ORDINANCE authorizing
the Director of the
Planning & Development
Department to accept and
expend grant funds (“the
Grant”) from the Houston
Endowment/Blueprint
Houston and apply for and
accept subsequent awards, if
any, pertaining to the grant;
awarding a contract between
the City of Houston and
DESIGN WORKSHOP,
INC for Strategic Planning
Services for the Planning &
Development Department;
containing
provisions
relating to the subject; and
declaring an emergency.
Anna Russell
City Secretary
Oil
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in 2010, an accident that killed 11 workers and spawned the
nation’s worst offshore oil spill.
Spoke
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Wills stood right here on these boards,” he says. “When you get
up on the stage, you feel like you ought to do good, that you
should do the best you can. Just think about all those talented
musicians and singers that sang right there before you.”
James White spent his early childhood just south of the
Spoke, in an old family home near what is now Burger Center.
He attended Becker Elementary and Fulmore Junior High, “and
then the first year that Travis (High School) opened up, 1953-54,
I was in ninth grade,” he said. He graduated from Travis in 1957.
James’ love of country music traces back to those grade-school
days, when he would tune his radio to the Louisiana Hayride on
Friday nights and the Grand Ole Opry on Saturdays. He also
liked rhythm and blues music and remembers attending shows
at City Coliseum by the likes of Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry and a
nascent rock ‘n’ roller named Elvis Presley who was opening for
country star Hank Snow.
After high school, James joined his father in California, working in missile and aircraft factories there and in Nebraska. In
1961, he joined the Army, spending 18 months overseas in Okinawa before coming back to Austin to work at a missile battery
on Bee Cave Road in what is now the Westlake area.
A final stint at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio ended in
1964, at which time James decided to leave the Army and open
up a honky-tonk. He cites Sept. 25, 1964, as the ground-breaking date at the site of an old lumber yard along South Lamar on
land owned by local businessman Jay Johnson.
Integral to the process was Joe Baland, whom James’ mother
had remarried. A 1977 Texas Senate Resolution honoring the
Spoke states that “Joe Baland, anticipating the needs of an
expanding capital city, shrewdly noted that Jay Johnson’s property in southwest Austin would provide an attractive and unique
locale for a libation-dispensing and socializing establishment.
. Baland and his stepson, James White, laboring with limited
funds and limitless determination, shouldered the Herculean
task of dismantling the old lumber yard and constructing the
establishment they would later christen the Broken Spoke.”
Vitally important was the support of James’ soon-to-be wife,
Annetta, whom he’d met in Oak Hill in 1960. A University of
Texas employee who worked at the UT Tower — she was on the
building’s first floor on Aug. 1, 1966, when Charles Whitman
went on his sniper spree — Annetta gradually became more and
more involved with the Spoke’s kitchen and business operations.
“I had to learn to cook commercially,” she recalled in an interview with American-Statesman videographer Reshma Kirpalani
that appears online with this story. “I was from a large family
and I knew how to cook, but I’d never cooked for all these
people. We used to have 200 people for lunch; there weren’t
any other restaurants around us within two or three miles.” Her
chicken-fried steak soon became a local favorite that frequently
topped best-in-town polls.
Musically, White started establishing the Spoke’s honkytonk bona fides quickly by booking local country bands on
the weekends. D.G. Burrow & the Western Melodies held the
honor of being the first band ever hired to play at the Spoke,
which initially existed only in the space that is now the front
restaurant room.
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City of Houston and
THE SEGAL COMPANY
(WESTERN STATES), INC,
known as SEGAL WATERS
CONSULTING for Human
Resources
Consulting
Services;
providing
a
maximum contract amount;
containing
provisions
relating to the subject; and
declaring an emergency.
2014-988
–
AN
ORDINANCE awarding
contract
to
TIMES
CONSTRUCTION, INC
for Asphaltic Pavement
Repair Services Citywide
for the Public Works &
Engineering Department;
providing a maximum
contract amount; containing
provisions relating to the
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extraction.
An industry group and the state’s General Land Office are
seeking an injunction in District Court to stop the ban from
being enforced.
City spokeswoman Lindsey Baker said earlier in the week
that the city has as much as $4 million in a risk fund for legal
challenges.
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tool for ongoing stimulus. The program largely reflected the
paralysis in Washington that prevented anything from getting
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Looking ahead, we’ll likely see the Fed keep the balance sheet
around $4 trillion for a while, reinvesting proceeds from financial assets that mature. This will keep interest rates fairly low,
encouraging capital investment. The end of QE does not equal
the end of the Fed’s accommodative monetary policy stance.
Until and unless inflation becomes a problem, there won’t be a
lot of belt tightening at the Fed. The recovery is still not robust
enough to risk backing off too far too fast and sending the US
backsliding toward a recession. Rather, the Fed will pursue a
slow course toward a slow return to more normal conditions.