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November 2026

Webster resident poses in front of fire truck during the Webster Fire Department’s annual Fall movie night.

THANKFUL FOR COMMUNITY What’s the Buzz in Webster? Pg. 2

Second Chances at the Webster Animal Shelter Pg. 4

Using GIS Maps to Make a Difference Pg. 5

WHAT’S THE BUZZ

in Webster?

Splashing Away for the Winter The Texas Avenue Park Splash Pad will officially close to the public on Sunday, November 1, for the remainder of the fall and winter seasons. We hope the splash pad helped keep you cool during our hotter months. Now it’s time to enjoy the cooler weather that the holidays bring. See you in the Spring!

Are You the Merriest of Them All? The City’s annual Christmas Yard Decorating Contest takes place on Thursday, December 17. That evening, judges will assess both the east and west sides of Highway 3 to choose first, second, and third place winners from each side. To register your home for the contest, scan the QR code to complete the registration form. Winning yards will receive a Yard of the Month sign displayed in the front lawn, along with a feature of their decorated homes in the Webster Way newsletter and on the City’s Facebook page. Yard decorations will be evaluated based on color, creativity, aesthetics, appeal, and overall presentation.

Scan the QR code to register for the contest!

BUDGET TALK Annual Budget Update for the 2026-2027 Fiscal Year The annual budget reflects the programs, goals, and policies necessary to provide services to the citizens of Webster. The City is committed to enhancing the quality of life in Webster by continuing to provide essential services to its citizens and instituting programs and projects which will serve the long-term interest of the City.

City Council approved security improvements at all facilities, lift station, wastewater treatment plant, and water improvements, as well as utility rate 2 plant Webster Way | November and impact fee studies.

The 2026-2027 budget for all funds totals $83,766,214. This includes $41,168,562 in the General Fund and $12,453,820 in the Utility Fund. Sales tax is the 6% largest revenue source for the City, accounting for approximately 52 percent of General Fund revenues and 30 percent of total City revenues from all sources. This reflects the City’s significant presence of commercial restaurants and retail entities.

18%

16%

Fiscal Year Projects Exciting projects are underway in Webster. With City Council approval, the Public Works Department will update landscaping at the Civic Center Complex and install a sidewalk on Sarah Deel. The Parks division will refresh fencing, the pavilion, and restrooms with fresh coats of paint at Texas Avenue Park.

2026-2027 Expenditures by Function

Texas Avenue Park Pavilions

Wastewater Treatment Plant

60%

Sales tax revenue allows Webster to maintain low property tax and utility rates. For 2026-2027, the property tax rate is $0.38663 per $100 of taxable value. In this fiscal year, the City’s property tax rates and utility rates remain among the lowest in the area. Public Works

General Government

Community Development

Public Safety

For more information on the budget, visit webstertx.gov.

A MESSAGE FROM WEBSTER PD A MESSAGE FROM WEBSTER PD Tips to Stay Safe and Secure This Holiday Season With the holiday season approaching, many of us are prepping for Christmas shopping. Hunting for the perfect gift for your loved ones should be stress-free; that’s why the Webster PD urges residents to follow these simple holiday shopping tips to stay safe and secure this season.

Remember to call the Webster PD if you notice anything suspicious. 281.332.2426 EXT. 5

In-Person Shopping

Online Shopping

Stay aware of your surroundings while shopping, especially in crowded areas.

Only shop on trusted websites, and look for “https” in the URL for added security.

Keep your bags closed and wallets secured, particularly in large crowds or while loading purchases.

Avoid using public WiFi for online shopping to protect personal information.

Park in well-lit, busy areas to deter car breakins.

Check bank and credit card statements regularly for suspicious changes.

Don’t resist if someone tries to take any of your belongings. Nothing is worth your life.

Be cautious of unfamiliar sites with prices that seem too good to be true (they often are).

REGISTER YOUR SECURITY CAMERAS You can also help the Webster Police Department catch thieves by registering your security cameras on our website. Follow the QR code to register now!

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Thankful for

SECOND CHANCES AT THE WEBSTER ANIMAL SHELTER Meet

MACHINE

Meet

MACHINE

Machine is an eightyear-old shepherd mix male

Meet

CLOVER Meet CLOVER Meet CLOVER

Snack time after an exhausting day of being a good boy!

Contact Webster Humane Services if you are intersted in meeting Machine.

Meet

MACHINE

Hmm, what’s this?

Clover is a one-year-old shepherd collie mix female

Could you be Clover’s perfect match?

Tails of Autumn

practices.

Nothing is more special than having the whole family home for the holidays, including our pets.

Health Benefits and Emotional Rewards From reducing stress to alleviating anxiety, having a furry friend offers numerous health benefits. Dogs, in particular, need lots of exercise to stay healthy, and walking them also helps you get the exercise your body needs.

The Webster Animal Shelter is giving animals a second chance to find their furever homes, but we need our community’s help. What if you could adopt an animal into your family this holiday season? If you’ve been thinking of bringing a furry friend home, now’s the perfect time! Although our team at the Webster Animal Shelter does its best to give our shelter dogs a happy, comfortable space, the reality is that all animals deserve a loving home. There are plenty of reasons to adopt from a shelter. When you adopt, you give an animal in need a better life and support your community. Saving Lives and Improving Stray Animal Welfare in Webster Adopting goes beyond giving an animal a better home. It frees up resources, allowing shelters to reach more animals in need. Adopting not only gives a pet a chance to find a home, but also helps reduce shelter overcrowding and the number of homeless pets. Healthy, Adaptable Pets While many believe strays often have health issues or behavioral problems, many were once pets and are already accustomed to living with humans. Others develop adaptability from living on the streets, but all can transition into loving family pets with the right care. Taking a Stand Against Inhumane Practices Facilities like breeding operations often prioritize profit over animal well-being, leading to neglect and poor living conditions. By adopting, you’re making the conscious choice of refusing to support cruel

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INTERESTED IN adopting Machine, Clover,

or any of the other pets in our shelter?

The adoption fee at the Webster Animal Shelter is $35 and includes rabies vaccinations, spaying or neutering, and microchipping. If you would like more information or are interested in adopting any of the pets in our shelter, please contact the Humane Services Department at 281-316-3709. Webster Humane Services Hours Monday - Thursday 7:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Friday 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

Pet Health Safety Drive-Thru Vaccine Clinic Saturday, November 14. The Webster Animal Shelter is teaming up with ACES Veterinary Hospital for a Pet Health Safety Drive-Thru Clinic. Various vaccinations will be available to help protect your pets from common diseases. Scan the QR code for additional vaccine pricing details.

USING GIS MAPS TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE Whether you’ve heard of Geographic Information System (GIS) or not, it’s all around us. GIS is a tool used to create, manage, analyze, and map all types of data. For example, if you live in an area with frequent flooding and want to know whether your home is at risk, GIS data can show whether you live in a flood plain, the drainage network in your area, and which buildings are at risk during an extreme flooding event. For a municipal government, GIS helps us make better-informed decisions by enabling more accurate planning, infrastructure maintenance and tracking, economic development, and improvements to citizen safety.

The Art and Science of Decision Making GIS answers questions and solves problems with data that is easy to understand and share across every department in our municipality. GIS can answer questions such as: Which buildings are likely to flood in a 100-year storm? How much parking would a major development require, and what impact would it have on traffic? Where and when should police increase patrols to reduce crime? Where is an ideal place for a new business development? With answers to these questions, our municipality can improve service quality by using our resources more efficiently. With GIS, we can plan transportation routing, manage land development, inventory resources and infrastructure, and generate revenue by increasing economic activity.

GIS Is for Everyone

Economic Development GIS plays an important role in Economic Development by providing developers with online maps highlighting plots for sale or lease and creating maps that promote commercial locations for potential developers.

Community Development GIS is a vital tool for city planners and building officials. Planners use GIS to determine zoning district compliance and assess traffic impacts from new developments, while building officials use GIS-centric software to document construction progress, monitor construction sites for building code compliance and safety regulations, and track construction project permitting and inspections.

Police Department GIS supports crime analysis by identifying and mapping crime rates and patterns over time, allowing the City to allocate resources more efficiently and work to reduce crime. GIS also helps the City code enforcement team track violation hotspots and obtain property ownership information.

Fire Department

GIS can be used for many things, even for something as simple as finding the jurisdiction that your home address falls under.

The Webster Fire Department can use GIS to map building details, such as where hazardous materials are stored, to prepare for emergencies in advance. During a disaster event, GIS can map and alert the public on which areas must evacuate or shelter in place, and provide corresponding evacuation routes.

Did you know that not all residential homes with a Webster mailing address are in Webster’s City limits? Some may fall within the jurisdiction of a neighboring city like Friendswood, League City, or Houston!

Public Works

Try Webster GIS maps to find your corresponding jurisdiction. • Go to Visitors & Residents section and click on “Find an Address” • Open the map and type the address. • Select the address from the drop-down list, and the map will zoom in on it. • Click anywhere off-center on the lot with your mouse. A pop-up will appear. • The top blue area of the pop-up shows the jurisdiction where the address falls.

GIS Plays a Significant Role in Every Department, from Increasing Community Outreach to Enhancing Emergency Response.

Scan the QR code or go to webstertx.gov/868/Maps to access Webster maps

GIS data can help us plan, design, and manage infrastructure assets that keep us comfortable with clean water, sanitary sewer, and stormwater drainage. GIS can also create an infrastructure replacement plan for aging waterlines, calculate where to place a fire hydrant, track the speed and route of mosquito spray trucks, and determine which buildings would be impacted during a water main repair.

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Single Use Disposal System Safely remove medications that are expired or no longer needed

The Webster Fire Department is proud to offer Single-Use Disposal Systems (SUDS) TakeAway Envelopes as part of a University of Houston initiative to help eliminate improper prescription drug use.

What is a Single-Use Disposal System? A single-use disposal system is a way to safely dispose of unused or expired medications in the privacy of your home. This TakeAway Envelope lets you mail expired or no-longer-needed medications to an incineration plant, where they are safely destroyed.

Why do we need safe prescription disposal? • Safely removing unused prescription medications can prevent harm from sharing prescriptions, overdoses, and accidental poisoning. • Research has found that if medications are flushed, traces may end up polluting our drinking water. • The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recommends incineration and deactivation as safe methods of drug destruction, which meet the Drug Enforcement Agency’s (DEA) standard.

What can be placed in the TakeAway Envelope? ALLOWED:

• Both over-the-counter and prescription medications, including controlled substances. • Tablets, capsules, patches, and creams. • Liquids: up to 4 ounces in a sealed plastic bag.

NOT ALLOWED:

• Inhalers • Needles • EpiPens and other autoinjectors • Lancets • Chemotherapy drugs • Hazardous materials

SUDS are a convenient and environmentally friendly way to dispose of unused or expired prescription medications. The prepaid TakeAway Envelope lets you mail your unused and expired prescriptions from the privacy of your home. They are incinerated unopened, keeping them out of our drinking water. As many as 92% of people have leftover medications and don’t know how to dispose of them. You can lead the effort to remove unused medications by cleaning out your medicine cabinet using SUDS.

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The public can now acquire envelopes at Webster Fire Station 1 (18300 Hwy. 3, Webster, TX 77598) from a pickup box mounted near the station’s front door.

Frequently Asked Questions How many bottles/pills can we fit in an envelope? As many as you can fit. If you do not have the original bottle, please place them in a sealed baggie. Can we mail back prescriptions like opioids? Yes, please use the TakeAway envelope to destroy prescription medications safely. Can I take more than one envelope? Yes, please use them and share them with your community. Can I combine my pills into one bottle? Yes, you can combine your pills, tablets, and capsules into one bottle or seal them in a zip-lock bag. Can sharps be thrown away using the envelope? No, you can’t use TakeAway envelopes for needles, auto-injectors, or lancets.

CITY COUNCIL SEPTEMBER RECAP

CITY CONTACTS

• City Council welcomed Nghiem Doan as the new City Attorney. • City Council adopted an Ordinance establishing charges for utility services. • City Council approved a Resolution adopting an investment policy and authorizing the investment officers to engage in certain financial transactions on behalf of the City. • City Council approved a Resolution adopting a list of qualified brokers and dealers authorized to engage in investment transactions with the City. • City Council authorized a payment to GWR Webster, LLC for the third and final installment of the Development Grant. • City Council approved a Webster Economic Development Corporation expenditure for a contract with Beck Landscaping, LLC, for a landscape and irrigation project for the Flyway parking lot, located at 350 Royal Tern Way. • City Council authorized a purchase order to Pipecore Solutions for services to replace leaking and nonfunctional valves and hydrants in the water distribution system. • City Council awarded Bid 26-10 for the Storm and Sanitary Sewer Maintenance Services Contract to Magna Flow Environmental. • City Council rejected Bid 26-06 for Lift Station 5 Force Main Manhole Replacement. • City Council reappointed Kaz Hamidian and appointed Kimberly Barfield and Joe Jasso to the Zoning Board of Adjustments for a term expiring June 30, 2028. • City Council cast a ballot for the Texas Municipal League Intergovernmental Risk Pool Board of Trustees Election. • City Council held a Public Hearing on the Fiscal Year 2026-2027 Proposed Annual Budget. • City Council adopted an Ordinance approving the City’s Fiscal Year 2026-2027 annual budget. • City Council proposed a maximum ad valorem tax rate of 0.38663 for Fiscal Year 2027-2027. • City Council adopted a Resolution approving the Fiscal Year 2026-2027 annual budget as adopted by the Webster Economic Development Corporation and providing an effective date. • City Council approved the first reading of an Ordinance repealing Ordinance numbers 09-08 and 22-03, providing a repealer and an effective date. • City Council adopted a Resolution approving a revised personnel policy manual and providing an effective date.

City Hall Main Number 281.332.1826

For more information on the next City Council meeting, visit our website by scanning the QR code!

City Secretary 281.316.4144 Community Development 281.316.4129 Economic Development 281.316.4116 Finance 281.316.4102 Municipal Court 281.316.6702 Recreation 281.316.4137 Public Works 281.316.3700 Fire (Non-emergency) 281.332.2711

Police (Non-emergency) 281.332.2426

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City Council meetings are held on the first and third Tuesday of the month.

City Manager 281.332.1826

City of Webster, Texas

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NOVEMBER

DECEMBER

MEETINGS AND EVENTS

SENIOR BINGO DAYS 10 A.M. at 311 Pennsylvania Ave.

CITY COUNCIL MEETING 6 P.M. at City Hall

WEBSTER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION MEETING* 6 P.M. at City Hall

SENIOR GAME NIGHT 6 P.M. at 311 Pennsylvania Ave.

WEBSTER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION MEETING* 6 P.M. at City Hall

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SENIOR BINGO DAYS 10 A.M. at 311 Pennsylvania Ave.

CITY COUNCIL MEETING 6 P.M. at City Hall

CHRISTMAS IN THE PARK 5 P.M. at Texas Avenue Park 17100 Texas Ave., in Webster

SENIOR BINGO DAYS 10 A.M. at 311 Pennsylvania Ave.

CITY COUNCIL MEETING 6 P.M. at City Hall

CHRISTMAS CLOSURE City Hall closes at 11:30 p.m. Offices will remain closed until Monday, December 28.1

THANKSGIVING CLOSURE City Hall closes at 11:30 p.m. Offices will remain closed until Monday, November 30.1

*Special meetings may be added, and meetings may be canceled if there are no agenda items. Check the City website at webstertx.gov for meeting information.

WEBSTER CITY COUNCIL

Jennifer Heidt Council Position 1 jheidt@webstertx.gov

Sam Davis

Council Position 2 sdavis@webstertx.gov

Chris Vaughan

Council Position 3 cvaughan@webstertx.gov

Donna Jasso

Mayor mayorjasso@webstertx.gov

Beverly Gaines

Council Position 4 bgaines@webstertx.gov

Edward Lapeyre Council Position 5 elapeyre@webstertx.gov

Martin Graves

Mayor Pro Tem mgraves@webstertx.gov