I spent or wasted an hour of my time attending one meeting via Zoom, one of the ten meetings they had scheduled. I consider this a waste of time, and I have a lot of time to waste as I am retired.
Below is an image, which is a link to the meeting schedule. I asked three specific questions that were not answered, 1) such as whether they would cut the vegetation more often, as twice this year, it has grown as high as five feet.
The Flood Control District claims it will do more; what exactly will it do? Another question 2) was whether it would clean the bayous more often. When I first moved to where I live, they would come and clean the bayou every few years. They no longer do that.
The first question they answered was whether someone who is not a citizen can vote on the bonds. Someone is asking that, and they consider that the first question they need to answer.
I would not buy a pig on a poke, so why would I support a tax increase that does not tell us how the money would be used?
If the Flood Control District cannot or will not tell us how the money will be spent, it does not deserve our support.
Other places where one can find more information: Here – Here – Here
I live adjacent to Brays Bayou, and according to the last link immediately above, the most money was spent on Brays Bayou, which they label as a place where low-income people live. Next to Brays Bayou is the Medical Center, so it was improved to prevent it from flooding as it has in the past.
The flooding caused by Allison virtually shut down the 700-acre Texas Medical Center complex, the largest aggregated medical campus in the United States. Flood waters crippled the infrastructure of the Center, which at the time included 13 hospitals, two specialty institutions, two medical schools, four nursing schools, and other schools for various health-related professions. The Center’s emergency generators, electrical switchgear, and boiler and chiller plants all sustained water damage. Worse still, about 30,000 research animals housed in the basement of Baylor College of Medicine drowned. Altogether, the loss of lab animals, computer data, records, and tissue samples meant that medical researchers saw years of their work destroyed.
Much of that money was spent on widening Brays Bayou, but maintenance should not be more costly as there are still only two sides of the bayou.
Below are two images of the middle of Brays Bayou near I-59. Notice a smaller channel in the first image. That channel used to be cleaned every few years, but that no longer occurs. It is about 8 feet wide and 3 feet deep.
