City Official heading to Wash DC to meet with several delegates

An official from the City of Baytown will be traveling to Washington DC in the late part of September before Congress starts their work in January 2019, to meet with the 115thU.S. Congress, to discuss the unique issues that are presenting themselves and a new set of priorities for the City.

The official will meet with U.S Representative Brian Babin, U.S Senator John Cornyn, and U.S Senator Ted Cruz.

The items on the list; support full remediation of the San Jacinto Waste Pits Super Fund site to ensure area residents have safe water conditions for fishing and other recreational purposes, oppose efforts by the EPA to implement new ozone standards before allowing the 2008 ozone standards to fully take effect, balancing economic growth and environmental protection, support measures that provide for the expedient distribution of disaster recovery resources to include short-term and long-term recovery efforts, support the City’s efforts to recover from Hurricane Harvey and mitigate damage in future disasters, including support for the following projects; reconstruction and elevation of the East District Wastewater Treatment facility; reconstruction and elevation of critical sewer lift stations in flood prone areas, construction of new drainage facilities to mitigate the impacts of future high rainfall events, construction of an additional east/west corridor in Baytown to provide another option for the safe exit of east Baytown and west Chambers County during emergency situations, support legislation that provides more authority for cities to regulate group homes to ensure the facilities do not create health, safety and/or welfare issues for neighborhoods in Baytown, support additional funding to States to address regional transportation planning and traffic improvements projects, support measures that allow for local control of transportation resources, eliminating unnecessary State and Federal administrative cost and creating efficiencies, support Army Corps of Engineers efforts to fund and make necessary improvements to Cedar Bayou, which will impact quality of life, economic growth, and mitigate impacts to homes and critical infrastructure during future flood events, and support the continuation of funding for the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the American Community Survey, along with efforts to broaden and deepen workforce and labor data at the zip code level.