{"id":361555,"date":"2026-07-05T02:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T02:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/361555\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T02:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T02:59:11","slug":"harris-county-precinct-4-to-cut-3-million-in-road-projects-following-vote-to-shift-metro-funding-spring-klein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/361555\/","title":{"rendered":"Harris County Precinct 4 to cut $3 million in road projects following vote to shift METRO funding | Spring – Klein"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following a vote by the Harris County Commissioners Court to temporarily shift road funding away from precincts 3 and 4, officials within Precinct 4, where Spring and Klein are located, will now have to cut $3 million in road projects.
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\nThe court passed a measure by a 3-2 vote\u2014with the three Democratic members voting in favor\u2014at its June 25 meeting to evenly split the sales tax revenue the county receives from the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, also known as METRO. The sales tax revenue is projected to total about $32 million this year, according to METRO\u2019s fiscal year 2019 budget book.
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\nPreviously, METRO funds were split based on mobility needs, such as the number of existing and future road projects as well as the amount of taxes a precinct paid to METRO and how much METRO services it received, Precinct 4 Commissioner Jack Cagle said. Precinct 4 pays METRO taxes, but because some parts of the precinct do not receive any service, it received more METRO sales tax revenue, he said.
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\nUnder the old formula, Precinct 1 got roughly 20%, Precinct 2 got 15%, Precinct 3 got 32% and Precinct 4\u2014which has 42% of the county\u2019s unincorporated population, according to Cagle\u2014got 33%. The shift would redirect about $4.8 million from precincts 3 and 4, based on METRO\u2019s $32 million projection, pending a reassessment of the county\u2019s mobility needs.
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\n\u201cYou have people in \u2026 Precinct 4 that do not get METRO services, that pay a tax to go fund people who don\u2019t pay taxes. \u2026 That\u2019s just not equitable,\u201d Cagle said.
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\nThere are 20 Precinct 4 road projects that are currently in the study or design phase that qualify for METRO funding, and Precinct 4 will need to decide which ones to cut, Cagle said. Projects include extending a portion of Stuebner Airline Road between
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\nFM 2920 and the Grand Parkway as a four-lane concrete section and upgrading a two-lane asphalt section on Gosling Road between West Rayford Road and Creekside Forest Drive to a four-lane concrete boulevard with drainage, said Pamela Rocchi, director of Harris County Precinct 4 Capital Improvement Projects Division.
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\nOne of the completed projects that was funded through METRO funds was the widening of Aldine Westfield Road between Louetta Road and Riley Fuzzel Road.
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\nBobby Lieb, Houston Northwest Chamber of Commerce president, voiced his disapproval of how the court approved the measure, saying it should have been studied and backed by data before being brought to court.
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\n\u201cInstead, \u2026 they said, \u2018We don\u2019t think it\u2019s fair, therefore we\u2019re just going to split it evenly,\u2019\u201d Lieb said.
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\nPrecinct 2 Commissioner Adrian Garcia said part of the reason growth is slower in his precinct is because it does not have the infrastructure to support it, partially due to lack of mobility funding.
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\nHidalgo, who supported the measure, directed County Engineer John Blount to determine what the mobility assessment would entail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following a vote by the Harris County Commissioners Court to temporarily shift road funding away from precincts 3…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[128349,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-361555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-harris-county-precinct-4-to-cut-3-million-in-road-projects-following-vote-to-shift-metro-funding","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361555","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=361555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}