Sunnyside

Learn how to GROW YOUR BUSINESS with your Local, State and Federal Governmental Agencies

The Community & Economic Development unit at Prairie View A&M University has been meeting with the Texas Comptroller’s Purchasing division to focus on strategies that increase bid participation and sales among Historically Underutilized Businesses (HUB’s) who can provide goods and services to over 200 Texas agencies, universities, school districts, and large industries that participate in the statewide bidding process.

In coordination with the State Comptroller’s Office, and the El Paso Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and its partners, the Cooperative Extension Program has developed the BID Certification Program to train HUBs on how to do business with State and local government.

Upon program completion, participants will be certified by PVAMU and will be included our exclusive list of trained vendors to be shared with our network of State purchasers as well as free business marketing through our various multimedia outlets.

Space is limited for this program so call your local Community and Economic Agent to confirm a seat. Prairie View Cooperative Extension wants you!!!

Courses:

• HUB Overview and Updating Profile

• Business Planning

• Business Marketing

• Keep Your Books: Basic Bookkeeping

• Access to Alternative Capital

• Supplier Diversity and Subcontracting Plans

• Proposal/Bid Writing I

• Proposal/Bid Writing II

• Graduation/Pitch Contest

9 free courses including:

REGISTRATION CONTACT

Please contact Gregory Rose, Harris County Extension Agent with the Community Economic Development

Prairie View A&M University

Houston, TX 77047

713-682-5034 (office)

The Solid Waste Management Department (SWMD) is experiencing service delays in all quadrants of the City due to the increased amount of debris placed out for collection and driver shortages in our critical classifications.



As a result, SWMD is adjusting operations and updating collection schedules to serve Houston residents. The department is also hiring commercial truck drivers and offering a signing incentive pay for these critical classifications.

All interested applicants are asked to visit houstontx.gov/careers to submit an employment application.

Be A Champion, INC in partnership with Greater St. Matthew Church will be distributing free kids meals every Friday from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm to all children 18 years old and younger. Individually packaged meals distribute on first come, first served basis. This will be a safe distribution. No need to leave your car. Meals will be placed in your vehicle. If your child is not present please bring one of the following:

• Letter from school proving enrollment
• Report Card
• School ID
• Official attendance record
• Birth certificate
• Passport
• Military ID
• Issued ID by childcare facility
• Official ID issued by state or local government

Houston Health Department
Reliant's Beat the Heat portable air conditioner program assists eligible seniors, disabled individuals and families without means to cool their homes. Please call the Harris County Area Agency on Aging at 832-393-4301 to learn more.

Additionally, the city is encouraging people to go to local libraries to stay cool. To be notified when emergency cooling centers open, please register for AlertHouston notifications. You may also call 3-1-1, follow the City of Houston on Facebook, or check their news releases for updates and locations. If you have home cooling concerns, please call the Houston Health Department Eligibility Service Center at 832-393-4984.

Thank you for participating in the Designing for Impact series. Over 400 people and 12 design professionals participated and facilitated these meetings in hopes to accomplish the objectives of the Houston Complete Communities Initiative.

To watch the presentations click the link below.

Designing for Impact: Part 1(External link)

Design for Impact: Part 2

Timestamps: •Sunnyside (1) / GSMA (Part 1, 8:05) •Sunnyside (2) / JC (Part 2, 13:44)

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The City of Houston would like to especially thank AIA Houston and the Houston Chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) for engaging our communities and providing exceptional design concepts from projects outlined in the Complete Communities Action Plan. AIA Houston and the City of Houston’s Complete Communities reserves and retains the ownership, the use, and copies of designs created, submitted, and presented.

Complete Communities continues to work to attract new development and supports expand resources throughout the neighborhoods.

The City of Houston's “Corral the Grease” program is an education and community engagement program designed to reduce sewer overflows within the City. Sewer overflows from cooking grease and wipes being disposed into our wastewater system is an especially large problem in the Fort Bend/SW Houston area. This problem can be avoided if residents properly dispose of these items, so we are working to educate the area’s residents.

Learn more at www.corralthegrease.org.