Ethics Policy & District Community Building on 11/16/10 Agenda

After several attempts to get the Board of Directors to consider a written Code of Ethics policy for WCID#89, a draft that I developed was discussed at the last meeting. President Smalls and Director Watson were not impressed with my efforts, and requested that the District's attorney create one instead. We will be discussing it at the next meeting 11/16/10 at 11:30AM.  Please note the address for this and all meetings is the new office location of the District's law firm,

Strawn & Richardson, P.C.

6750 West Loop South, Suite 250

Bellaire, Texas  77401-4111

This is in the Frost Bank building. Free parking is available.

Also on the agenda is a presentation by the architect on the District Community Building. President Smalls had stated that the bidding process was ready to move forward on construction of the building at the 10/19/10 meeting. I requested that the Board be presented with the design and be given more information about the purpose/use of the building before requests for bids were sent out. 

The original annexation agreement between 308 Furman, Ltd. and WCID#89, dated 4/9/2002 (I finally know how  the developer got that name - 308 acres near Furman Street. Cute, huh?) noted an estimate of $300,000 to be used on the "community center" which was to have parking capacity for 132 vehicles and might also include a basketball court, tennis court, and/or jogging trail. The $300,000 was to be provided by a $500 fee for each lot sold in the Brunswick neighborhoods, and $2500 for each acre sold out of commercial reserve acreage. 

There were apparently changes made to the original concept for the community center along the way. One of these changes included the funding for construction, because one of the bonds issued by WCID#89 over the past 8 years has an $800,000 earmark for the District building. We should know more about the other changes when the presentation is made at the next meeting.