What is Good Governance, and why do we need it? The characteristics of good governance include: participation, rule of law, transparency, responsiveness, consensus-oriented, inclusiveness, effectiveness and efficiency, and accountability. While all of these are important, some individuals may put greater importance on some of these characteristics more than others. When […]
Yearly Archives: 2025
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The Jersey Village Government is having a meeting to be held at 5:30 pm on September 12th, 2022, at the Civic Center before the City Council Meeting. The JV Government will be considering spending 7.9 million dollars on their new golf course and events center. This will cause higher residential property […]
Jersey Village City Council has proposed building a new Clubhouse for the city-owned Jersey Meadows Golf Course multiple times over the past several years multiple times. Each time, they have spent tens of thousands of dollars on design work in various configurations. And each time, they have had sticker shock […]
The Jersey Village City Council conducted a workshop session on January 7 to discuss the project and ideas for how it could be done without a Bond Issue on the May Ballot. Concerns were discussed during the regular Council meeting that the majority of the voters might vote against the […]
If you want to know more about Certificate of Obligation and when they may be used as a funding source, here are links where that is explained in more detail. Certificates of Obligation and https://texas.public.law/statutes/tex._local_gov’t_code_section_271.045 Before I get to the “WHY” Jersey Village City Council has chosen to use them […]
A lot of Jersey Village residents have moved here during the past twenty years, and many of them assume what exists today has always been the same. To explain “what was and what wasn’t” would require a document that tells the history of JV, and that is not the purpose […]
Jersey Village provided a chart that shows the impact on property taxes with the two suggested tax rate increases if the three bond propositions are approved by the voters. Their chart is flawed in multiple ways. The chart provides calculated taxes for several property taxable values for five years with […]
All Jersey Village residents must understand what is being voted on and how much the approval of the Propositions would increase our property taxes. The city has provided a lot of information about where the bond money would be used if the voters approve each of the three propositions; however, […]
The JV City Council has voted to authorize the City Manager to enter a contract with the Architect to begin developing construction drawings for the City Hall Project. City Council has also published a Notice of Intent to Issue Bonds. The Notice of Intent to Issue Bonds includes: A $20mm […]