{"id":171950,"date":"2026-02-19T21:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T21:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/171950\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T21:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T21:40:08","slug":"manvel-updates-fee-schedule-removes-animal-registration-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/171950\/","title":{"rendered":"Manvel updates fee schedule, removes animal registration costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/houston\/pearland-friendswood-manvel\/government\/2026\/02\/18\/manvel-approves-updated-primrose-subdivision-master-plan\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manvel City Council<\/a> approved an updated fee schedule at its Feb. 18 meeting, officially eliminating the $5 to $10 animal registration fees <a href=\"https:\/\/manveltx.portal.civicclerk.com\/event\/609\/files\/attachment\/6885\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previously approved Feb. 2.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The details <\/p>\n<p>Following approval, the updated fee schedule will not require animal registration, but other fees, including fire protection and utility charges, remain unchanged.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, enforcement-related charges, such as the $30 first-day animal impound fee and $5 for each additional day, remain in effect, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/manveltx.portal.civicclerk.com\/event\/623\/files\/attachment\/6933\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">city documents. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The alarm registration fees will be updated at the Sept. 28 meeting to align with fiscal year 2026-27, according to city documents.<\/p>\n<p>The background<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/houston\/pearland-friendswood-manvel\/election\/2026\/02\/16\/learn-who-filed-for-pearland-friendswood-manvel-city-council-may-elections\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Council members<\/a> Harry Oplinger and Crystal Sarmiento introduced the proposal at the Feb. 2 meeting, stating that it was intended to simplify the registration process for residents and align Manvel\u2019s practices with surrounding cities, as <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/houston\/pearland-friendswood-manvel\/government\/2026\/02\/04\/manvel-removes-alarm-pet-registration-fees\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previously reported<\/a> by Community Impact.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manvel City Council approved an updated fee schedule at its Feb. 18 meeting, officially eliminating the $5 to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[50477,1604,50480,50478,56,58,57,50479,36576,50476,50481,7601],"class_list":{"0":"post-171950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-city-hall-expansion","9":"tag-community-impact","10":"tag-crain-group","11":"tag-heritage-park","12":"tag-houston","13":"tag-houston-headlines","14":"tag-houston-news","15":"tag-inclusive-playground","16":"tag-manvel-city-council","17":"tag-manvel-city-hall","18":"tag-roadway-updates","19":"tag-thoroughfare-plan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}