VOTE 'YES' PROP 8
with Bobby Lieb, President & CEO
Proposition 8 on this year’s general election ballot authorizes the creation of the Flood Infrastructure Fund (FIF). With only one dissenting vote, the 86
th
legislature passed Senate Bill 7, authored by Senator Brandon Creighton (R-Conroe) and sponsored by Representative Dade Phelan (R- Beaumont), a comprehensive bill putting the State of Texas permanently into the game of funding flood resiliency. This bold step by the legislature appropriated $2 billion dollars for a variety of flood related measures. $793 million of that appropriation will be directed to the Texas Water Development Board (TWBD) to fund future flood infrastructure projects statewide. The Houston area stands to gain over $200 million of this funding which will help supplement the $2.5 billion Harris County voters passed in 2018 and the additional $5 billion from the federal government.
Why must there be an election, you ask?
....
