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Dylan Duncan Memorial Skate Park on Rustic Woods in Kingwood is one of 25 parks in Let’s Play Houston, the roughly $60 million city program that broke ground this week at Lawrence Park in the Heights. No dollar figure or construction date for the Kingwood park has been published.

Houston City Council has unanimously approved an ordinance letting parking enforcement officers mail citations to a vehicle’s registered owner instead of leaving them on the windshield. Drivers will have 40 days to pay or contest, and the change takes effect next week.

Houston City Council approved $667,540 from its End Street Homelessness fund on September 23 for a Houston Recovery Center program serving up to 600 people a year with 34 beds and round-the-clock support.

Houston City Council voted 15-0 on September 23 to have the city secretary publicly name candidates who file campaign finance reports more than a day late and refer missed deadlines to the Texas Ethics Commission.

Houston City Council is scheduled to vote Wednesday on letting parking enforcement officers mail citations to a vehicle’s registered owner instead of leaving them on the windshield, and on extending the window to pay or contest a ticket to 40 days, KPRC 2 reported.

Houston City Council removed the city’s application for a nearly $150 million Justice Department grant from its agenda for a second consecutive week, ABC13 reported, as council members and the mayor’s office seek clarity on the conditions attached to the money.

Houston council members have brought 18 proposals under Proposition A, the 2023 charter change that lets three members put an item on the agenda, and 11 have passed. The Houston Chronicle reports a growing dispute with Mayor John Whitmire over how those proposals are vetted.

After pulling it from the September 16 agenda, Mayor John Whitmire’s administration has put a $150 million U.S. Department of Justice Model Cities grant application back before Houston City Council for Wednesday. The grant guidelines list immigration law enforcement among their priorities.