2017 impact report - Greater Houston Partnership

GREATER HOUSTON PARTNERSHIP

2017 IMPACT REPORT PUBLIC POLICY 8 5 T H TEX AS LEGI SL ATI VE SESSIO N Houston Pension Reform Bill Passes

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The Municipal Finance Task Force worked for three years to pass a pension reform bill to improve the City's finances and prevent service disruptions.

HI S D RE CA PTU RE E L E CTI ON Passage of Proposition 1 by voters on May 6 by an 84-16 margin prevented a tax increase for residents and commercial property owners.

Other Partnership priorities enacted by the Texas Legislature include: secured state funding to attract jobs and companies like Amazon continued support for high-quality pre-K, the beginning of the workforce pipeline

VOTE PROPOSITION. 1

established new port transportation corridors to improve regional logistics and drive growth in exports

C I T Y OF H OUSTON P ROPOS IT IONS A-E

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The Partnership supported Prop. A to complete pension reform and Props. B-E to make capital improvements without a tax increase. Houston voters supported Props. A-E, in most cases 3 to 1.

In July, the Partnership established its first full-time staff person in the nation's capital.

prevented detachment of valuable property from HISD, as part of the Robin Hood funding plan

K E E PI N G #HOU STON STRON G BY VOTI N G

VOTEHOUSTON The Partnership believes that a strong community is a community that votes and developed the votehouston.org website as a source for voter information.

VOTE FOR PROPOSITIONS A-E KEEP #HOUSTONSTRONG BY VOTING

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT A N NOUN C E MENTS

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MILLION

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generated 10,000 articles in top news sources including the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Money and the New York Times Identified 13 new opportunities representing a potential:

#1 Foreign and Domestic Job Creation - Texas - IBM Global Location Trends, September 2017

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INTERNATIONAL The Partnership welcomed

Australia

Mexico

Belgium

130 delegations from 33 countries including: China

New Zealand

Finland

Norway

Iceland

Pakistan

Malaysia

Ukraine

Hosted United Kingdom Ambassador Sir Kim Darroch in October to discuss Houston - U.K. trade ties. The U.K. is the #1 country for Foreign Direct Investment in the Houston metro and Texas by the number of foreign-owned establishments.

Collaborated with the Asociacion de Empresarios Mexicanos to host U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry, Mexico’s Energy Secretary Pedro Joaquín Coldwell and Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources Jim Carr at the North American Energy Forum in November to discuss North America's energy infrastructure and ability to provide its own energy security.

INITIATIVES In October, Houston Exponential (HX) was launched to strengthen Houston's start-up ecosystem. HX is a combination of Mayor Turner’s Innovation and Technology Task Force, Houston Technology Center (HTC) and the Partnership's Innovation Roundtable.

Convened CEO's from regional health systems to LAUNCH

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Anticipating the long-term focus on federal funding, the Partnership established a Flood Resilience Task Force to identify almost $54 billion in key projects needed to protect our communities.

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Launched "What Are You Up For" campaign to REACH 150,000 STUDENTS and their parents in four Houston-area independent school

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Released Building Momentum, a report on our progress and impact in closing the region's skill gap.

TASK FORCE

MEMBER ENGAGEMENT M E M BER COMPANY E M P LOYEE PARTI CI PATI ON Events

Councils

13,413 member employees

1,660 registrants

248 events

councils

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Committees

participated in

2,782 registrants participated in

61 programs

participated in

35

1,967 participants

attended

80 committee meetings

(includes task forces and UpSkill Initiative)

H UR R ICA NE H A RV EY: G ET TI N G BA C K TO BU S I N ESS Following Hurricane Harvey, the Partnership hosted a three-part workshop series to help our members get back to business as quickly as possible. The Partnership staff connected members with public-private resources to quickly solve problems, protect people and property and aid communities. 275 people participated in the three sessions

audience of more than 3,500 people tuned in to the live-stream through social media.

# H OUSTONST RONG

houston.org/floodrecovery was created as a go-to resource for disaster recovery information immediately following Hurricane Harvey.

ALWAYS MAKING HOUSTON GREATER