What's on the Baytown City Council agenda for October 8

The Baytown City Council meets tonight, Thursday, October 8, at 6:30 p.m. in the Council Chamber at City Hall, 2401 Market Street. The agenda is public, and so is the 473-page packet behind it. Here is what is scheduled, so you know what's coming before the gavel falls. The short list: a $3.4 million deal with ExxonMobil for old street rights-of-way near Bayway Drive, the final vote on bringing 79 acres of the Baytown Crossings area into the city for limited purposes, a rezoning on North Highway 146, a talk about Lakewood Park, and a run of equipment and engineering contracts. This page lists what was put on the agenda, not how council voted; the votes show up in the city's minutes and the meeting video.

The short version

• ExxonMobil would pay the city $3,389,432 for 23.5558 acres of street rights-of-way near Bayway Drive, for its Baytown Blue Hydrogen Project.
• Council takes the second and final reading on a limited-purpose annexation of about 79 acres east of North Main Street, part of the Baytown Crossings expansion that adds 1,175 home lots.
• The consent list includes a $2.2 million construction-management agreement for the Market Street Revitalization Project and a $677,919 change order on the East Surface Water Plant expansion.

How to speak

Council meets on the second and fourth Thursdays at 6:30 p.m. To speak on an agenda item or during Citizens' Comment, put in a request before the posted meeting time. Two ways: email the City Clerk, or sign the list in the foyer outside the Council Chamber. The request needs your name, address and phone number, plus the agenda item number if you are speaking on one. The city's meetings page doesn't post a time limit, so ask the clerk when you sign up. The city also airs meetings on Government Access Channel 16, and the agenda and packet are on the city's meetings page.

Citizen comments come first, right after the pledge and invocation. Under the Texas Open Meetings Act, council can't debate a subject that isn't on the posted agenda, but you can still raise it; the item says issues that can't be referred to staff can be placed on a future agenda. If you want to speak about a listed item, this is the place.

The ExxonMobil street deal

Item 7a asks council to approve the Baytown Blue Hydrogen Agreement between the city and Exxon Mobil Corporation. The city would abandon its interest in 23.5558 acres of street rights-of-way inside the project area next to Bayway Drive and hand them over by quitclaim deed. The streets named in the packet are Abbott Street (once Avenue A), Allen Street, Arbor Street north and south, Ashby Street, Barnes Street (once Avenue B), Church Street, Coburn Street (once Avenue C), Douglas Street (once Avenue D), Fortner Avenue, John-A Street, North Street east and west, Scarlett Street, Shreck Avenue, and Wooster Street north and south. Four of them were lettered avenues once, A through D.

ExxonMobil would pay the city $3,389,432, which the packet describes as the appraised value of the rights-of-way and their improvements. On top of that, the company takes on the cost of reworking utilities and meeting fire-protection and emergency-access needs. The deed is signed only after CenterPoint Energy issues a final letter of no objection and the payment is made.

This item sits on the consent agenda, which means it passes in one motion with the other consent items unless a council member pulls it for separate discussion.

Baytown Crossings: the last reading

Item 6b is the second and final reading of a limited-purpose annexation of about 78.952 acres east of North Main Street, west of Hadden Road and north of East Wallisville Road. It is part of a larger story. In 2018 the city signed a development agreement with Friendswood Development Company for Baytown Crossings, approved for 2,002 single-family lots. A 2022 amendment extended the project by about 357 acres, and the packet says this section will add 1,175 more lots when finished. The agreement called for a strategic partnership between the city and Municipal Utility District 213-A, signed in 2019 and amended in July 2026, and for limited-purpose annexation of the land.

The land comes in pieces. A first piece, about 278 acres, was annexed on August 13. The 79-acre piece on this agenda had its public hearings on August 27 and passed first reading on September 17, so tonight's vote is the last one. Item 6c would place the newly annexed land in Council District No. 4.

Limited-purpose annexation is a Texas tool that lets a city apply its planning and development rules to land, and collect sales tax there, without full annexation. The strategic partnership agreement spells out what each side gets. If you live in or near Baytown Crossings, that agreement is the document to ask the city about.

The rezoning on Highway 146

Item 5a is a public hearing, and 6a the vote, on rezoning about one acre at 8220 North State Highway 146 from Open Space/Recreation to General Commercial. The land was annexed on September 10, and new land comes in zoned Open Space by default. The applicant plans a commercial building of about 5,381 square feet for an auto service business. The property already holds a small retail use.

Lakewood Park

Item 4a is listed only as "Discussion regarding Lakewood Park." The packet carries no report with it, so what council hears tonight is what the public hears. If you use the park, this is the item to watch.

The consent list, in dollars

Consent items pass together unless pulled. Besides the ExxonMobil agreement:

• $2,228,918.78 to BGE, Inc. for construction management and inspection of the Market Street Revitalization Project, from Bayway Drive to West Sterling Avenue. The construction contract itself runs 790 calendar days from the notice to proceed, plus 60 days for final completion.
• $677,919 as Change Order No. 2 on the Baytown Area Water Authority's East Surface Water Plant Phase 2 expansion. The change pays for costs tied to a delayed notice to proceed and adds 147 days to the schedule. The packet puts the revised total contract at $70,460,780. The original $5,023,131 and the Phase 2 price of $63,286,152 add up to $68,309,283, so the rest of the total is earlier change orders on top.
• $501,355 to DCCM North America for engineering on the Oak Leaf Drive reconstruction and the Staples and Cedar Landing lift station improvements, under a state General Land Office mitigation grant that covers up to $329,963 of the engineering; the city pays anything above that.
• $139,918.55 for three Ford trucks for Public Works and Engineering: an F-150 for Traffic, an F-150 replacing a Solid Waste unit, and an F-250 replacing a Drainage unit.
• $112,000 for a John Deere backhoe loader, used for water-leak repairs, replacing a worn-out machine.
• $91,930 for a trailer-mounted sewer jetter, also a replacement.
• $169,523.65 for an information-technology services contract and $76,578.41 for a server, both for the HIDTA program the city hosts.
• $200,000 for the fire department's annual pharmaceutical and medical supply contract, which stocks the ambulances and fire trucks, and a correction to the assignee name in Ordinance No. 16,576.

Also on the agenda

A proclamation naming October National Community Planning Month, approval of the September 10 and September 17 minutes, the city manager's report, a district report from Council Member Jacob Powell of District 5, and an executive session with the city attorney.

Before you go

• Meeting: Thursday, October 8, 6:30 p.m., Council Chamber, City Hall, 2401 Market Street.
• The full agenda and packet are on the city's agenda portal; the packet is the long version with the staff reports and contracts.
• To speak, email the City Clerk or sign the foyer list before the meeting starts, and arrive a few minutes early if you plan to speak during citizen comments.
• Can't make it? Meetings air on Government Access Channel 16.

Sources

• City of Baytown, City Council Regular Meeting agenda and agenda packet for October 8, 2026 (baytown.org Agenda Center, Destiny Hosted portal). Items 2a, 2b, 3a, 4a, 5a, 6a, 6b, 6c, 7a through 7k, 8, 9a, 10a.
• City of Baytown, Public Meetings & Agenda Packets: https://www.baytown.org/183

En español

Qué hay en la agenda del Concejo Municipal de Baytown el 8 de octubre

El Concejo Municipal de Baytown se reúne esta noche, jueves 8 de octubre, a las 6:30 p.m. en la Cámara del Concejo, en el Ayuntamiento, 2401 Market Street. Esta página dice lo que está programado, no cómo votó el concejo; los votos aparecen en las actas y en el video de la reunión.

Lo más importante

• Un acuerdo con ExxonMobil, que pagaría a la ciudad $3,389,432 por 23.5558 acres de derechos de vía de calles cerca de Bayway Drive para su proyecto de hidrógeno azul. Está en la lista de consentimiento: pasa en una sola votación con los demás puntos, a menos que un concejal pida discutirlo aparte.
• La segunda y última lectura de una anexión de propósito limitado de unos 79 acres al este de North Main Street, parte de la ampliación de Baytown Crossings que sumará 1,175 lotes de vivienda. Un primer tramo de unos 278 acres se anexó el 13 de agosto; este tramo tuvo audiencias el 27 de agosto y primera lectura el 17 de septiembre.
• Una audiencia pública y votación para cambiar la zonificación de un acre en 8220 N. Highway 146, de espacio abierto a comercial general, para un negocio de servicio automotriz.
• Una discusión sobre Lakewood Park, sin informe en el paquete.
• En la lista de consentimiento: $2,228,918.78 para la gerencia de construcción del proyecto de Market Street; una orden de cambio de $677,919 en la ampliación de la planta de agua del este; $501,355 de ingeniería para Oak Leaf Drive y dos estaciones de bombeo; tres camionetas Ford por $139,918.55; una retroexcavadora por $112,000; un equipo de limpieza de alcantarillas por $91,930; y $200,000 en medicinas y suministros médicos para las ambulancias y camiones de bomberos.

Cómo hablar

Para hablar sobre un punto de la agenda o durante los comentarios de ciudadanos, presente su solicitud antes de la hora de la reunión: por correo electrónico a la Secretaria Municipal, o firmando la lista en el vestíbulo. Debe dar su nombre, dirección y teléfono, y el número del punto si habla sobre uno. La ciudad no publica el límite de tiempo; pregúntelo cuando se anote. Los comentarios de ciudadanos van primero, después del juramento y la invocación. La ley de reuniones abiertas de Texas impide que el concejo debata un tema que no esté en la agenda, pero usted puede plantearlo. La reunión también se transmite por el Canal de Acceso Gubernamental 16. Llegue unos minutos antes si piensa hablar.