Tomorrow marks the last day of early voting in Harris County’s flood control bond referendum. Election Day is this Saturday. The county government is seeking to raise $2.5 billion to beef up flood infrastructure.
Last fall, the Greater Houston Partnership set up a task force to determine what the region needed to do to protect itself against another Harvey.
“And that group identified $54 billion worth of projects that were needed for flood resiliency within the Greater Houston region,” says Taylor Landin, the partnership’s senior vice president of public policy. “Nearly $30 billion of that would be the amount needed for projects that would improve the resiliency of the watersheds within Harris County. And so when the county floated the idea of $2.5 billion in a bond package, we viewed it as a step in the right direction toward that.”
If the bond passes, homeowners will see their property tax bills go up by roughly 3 cents per $100 of assessed value.