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Votes at a glance: council approves EPA waterline grant, Braeburn speed humps, contracts and traffic‑signal grant
Summary
At its June 2, 2025 meeting the Bellaire City Council approved a series of ordinances, contracts and petitions including acceptance of a federal EPA waterline grant, a petition to install three bolt‑down rubber speed humps on Braeburn Drive, two consent contracts, and reissuance of a TxDOT‑required ordinance for a traffic‑signal timing grant.
Bellaire’s City Council on June 2 approved multiple items on the agenda during a meeting that combined public comment, staff presentations and lengthy debate on a separate speed‑limit item.
Key council actions (motions adopted):
- EPA waterline grant acceptance and budget amendment: The council accepted a federal grant awarded from combined fiscal year 2022 and 2023 appropriations for leftover water‑line replacements from the Better Bellaire bond program. Maureen Campbell (capital projects and grants manager) said the combined award totaled about $3,100,000 with a local match already appropriated in the city’s CIP; staff secured a consultant to complete NEPA environmental clearance. Council approved the acceptance and the related budget amendment to appropriate the grant funds; votes were recorded as unanimous.
- Petition for speed humps on 5400 block of Braeburn Drive (Agenda Item 3A): Travis Tanner, director of development services, presented staff’s recommendation to install three bolt‑down rubber speed humps spaced roughly 325 feet apart. The block is approximately 1,300 linear feet long. Petitioners would pay the initial cost, estimated at $9,000 for the three units; staff will evaluate the installation for 180 days before making a permanent recommendation. The council voted to approve the petition; the record shows the vote was unanimous.
- Consent agenda contracts (items A–E): The council approved several consent items including two contracts that drew brief questions. One contract with RayTech Construction Resources was discussed; Council members asked about large annual amounts shown in the contract language ($450,000 per renewal year up to four years) and staff clarified the contract is for on‑call services and the city is not locked into spending that amount if it is not budgeted. Another consent item included a $150,000 annual authorization with the same budget caveat. Both contracts were approved, and the record shows unanimous votes.
- Reissuance of ordinance related to TxDOT/traffic‑signal timing grant: Staff asked the council to reissue ordinance No. 24068 (as required by TxDOT wording) for the Service Transportation Block Grant funding the traffic‑signal timing software and study. The project has a 10% local match through the regional match pool; staff said the city will manage the software/timing portion and will oversee costs to avoid overruns. The council approved the reissuance unanimously.
How the actions will be implemented: - The Braeburn speed humps will be installed at the petitioners’ expense, evaluated over 180 days, and staff will report back with recommendations for permanence. - The EPA grant funds will be booked into revenue and expense accounts in the CIP and staff will proceed with NEPA compliance and project procurement as required by federal grant rules. - The on‑call street‑repair contract will be used for emergency/repair work as needed and can be canceled if the city does not budget the contract amounts in a given year.
Votes and formal identifiers: the meeting record did not specify ordinance numbers for all items at the mic, but the agenda identified Braeburn petition as Item 3A, the TxDOT traffic signal ordinance as an ordinance reissuance referencing No. 24068, and the EPA award as a federal grant acceptance tied to FY22/FY23 appropriations. Where the transcript did not list individual roll‑call names, the record reports the results as unanimous.
