Our smart zone radio communications system allows over 50 police agencies to communicate with each other, allowing victims of crime to get help as soon as possible. Harris County has doubled the number of juvenile beds, and this year opened our new Juvenile Boot Camp. Our air quality has improved dramatically over the past twenty years, yet more must be done for our growing community. Harris County is initiating new monitoring systems to insure compliance with federal and state regulations, funding computer modeling to base our clean air decisions on the best information possible and searching for the newest and most cost effective technologies to clean our air. The County recently established an ozone notification system so that children, the elderly and other vulnerable to respiratory problems can be alerted to high levels of ozone as soon as possible.
Clean air knows no boundaries.
The greater Houston region must work together to develop a strategy that works for all of us. Our Courthouse Campus is transforming downtown Houston. A first-ever master plan includes a new Criminal Justice Center, Civil Justice Center, Juvenile Justice Center, renovated Family Law Center and restoration of the original County Courthouse. The new Hardy Toll Road airport connector is open, and we are proceeding with the Westpark Toll Road, the Hardy downtown extension and the Grand Parkway. We are partnering with the City of Houston on a new library for east Harris County and on a joint prisoner booking facility.