Explain why the Third Supplemental Agreement with MUD 493 had to be ratified on June 23, 2026.

Good practice: record the reason for a ratification.

The board action behind it

2026-05-26: Approved Third Supplemental Agreement with Harris County MUD No. 493 for 191 additional connections, with estimated payment of $1,942,678.19

What else happened at that meeting

With the President and Vice President absent, Director Parr presided as President Pro Tempore. The Board accepted the resignation of Director Knabe, appointed Noe Escobar to fill the vacancy, accepted qualification documents from Director Escobar and re-elected Directors Parr and Cobb, and elected Director McClary President and Director Escobar Assistant Secretary. It approved the general operating, joint water plant and joint sewer treatment plant budgets for the fiscal year ending May 31, 2027, engaged Forvis Mazars to audit fiscal year 2026 and to perform agreed-upon procedures for the proposed Series 2026 road bonds, and approved a preliminary summary of costs for those bonds. The Board approved supplemental capacity agreements with Harris County MUD 491 for 675 connections and MUD 493 for 191 connections, new sludge management agreements, and three operator proposals; the operator also reported a TCEQ noncompliance notice after a Lift Station No. 2 equipment failure caused manholes in MUD 489 to overflow.

Source: the meeting record › The approved minutes, p. 8 ›

The law and guidance in force on 2026-05-26

Joint facilities shared by benefit, generally by design capacity

30 TAC §293.44

§293.44: Same text in force then and now

Not shown in the record

Charge basis not in the minutes (p.8).

Who's involved

Harris County MUD No. 493 (participant buying 191 additional connections)

Schwartz, Page & Harding, L.L.P. (SPH) (district attorney (and bond counsel); also general counsel to MUDs 419, 489, 490, 491, 492, 493 and WCIDs 157, 158, 159)

BGE, Inc. (district engineer; also engineer to MUDs 419, 489, 490, 491, 492, 493 and WCIDs 157, 158, 159)

Bridgeland Development, LP (represented by Howard Hughes Holdings, Inc. staff) (developer; reimbursed for master facilities and road facilities)

Possible conflicts

SPH, BGE, Masterson, MA&C: Same advisers on both sides (see action 20). (The same attorney (SPH), engineer (BGE), bookkeeper (MA&C), financial advisor (Masterson) and auditor (Forvis Mazars) serve MUD 418 and the participant districts on the other side of every master-facility payment (consultant schedules in the audits of MUD 418 (2025_Financial_Report.pdf, PDF p.42), MUD 419 (2025_05_31_Audit_Report.pdf, PDF p.70), MUD 489 (HC_489_Final_Audit_Report_FY_Ended_May_31_2024.pdf, PDF p.60), MUD 490 (HC_MUD_No_490_2025_FS_Final.pdf, PDF p.49) and MUD 493 (HC_493_Final_Audit_Report_FY_Ended_May_31_2024.pdf, PDF p.31); TCEQ affiliation records for MUDs 491 and 492 (hcid14-site/bridgeland-records/hcmud491/tceq/tceq-affiliations.html; hcid14-site/bridgeland-records/hcmud492/tceq/tceq-affiliations.html)))

Money or costs moved

HC MUD 493 (next bond issue) → HC MUD 418: $1,942,678 191 additional connections (about $10,171 per connection, computed) (p.8).

HC MUD 418 → Bridgeland Development, LP Connection charges reimburse the developer for master facilities.

Why the board approved it

Recorded: “SPH described the agreement: 191 connections, estimated $1,942,678.19 from MUD 493's next bonds (p.8).”

Terms recorded. The Board ratified this approval on June 23, 2026 without a stated reason.