Utility Meeting at Kingwood Community Center Tonight
6/4/2026 – Tonight, from 5-6:30 PM, Houston City Council Member Fred Flickinger will host an open house at Kingwood Community Center (4102 Rustic Woods Drive, Kingwood TX 77345). The focus will be on utilities in Kingwood.
According to Demari Perez, Houston City Council Member Fred Flickinger’s District E Deputy Chief of Staff, a large percentage of the calls coming into their office concern utility services. This is your chance to speak directly to the people providing those services.
The utility meeting will have an open-house format (no formal presentations), so that you speak directly with the people providing services.
Other groups, such as Trees for Houston and Trees for Kingwood, will also be available, because trees frequently interrupt utility service and people need to know what they can do to help.
The following groups will have booths set up around the room:
- CenterPoint Energy
- Comcast
- xfinity
- UnionPacific
- Trees for Houston
- Trees for Kingwood
- Houston Office of Emergency Management
Emphasis on Practical Safety Information
According to the Council Member Flickinger, the utility meeting will feature practical safety information about resources designed to help you, your family and your neighborhood. For instance:
- Safe vegetation practices and the Right Tree, Right Place approach
- When and why to call 811 before you dig
- How to stay safe around railways and utility equipment
- Hurricane preparedness tips and local resources
Flickinger said, “Ask questions, explore helpful information and share what matters most in your neighborhood, so we can better support the community we serve.”
One of the first things people often lose in Kingwood is power when trees fall against overhead lines. And with the loss of power comes loss of communication.
Anyone who lived in Kingwood in 2008 when Hurricane Ike knocked out power for 22 days knows what I am talking about.
UnionPacific
Perez says her office also frequently gets questions about trains stopped on rail tracks. One of the questions I frequently get is about when UP will finish the rail crossings for the new feeder roads at Northpark. They’re delaying work on the bridge over the tracks and Loop 494.
From UP’s perspective, Northpark is reportedly part of a much larger project to coordinate rail crossings at Ford, Knox, Northpark and Royal Crossing. You may want to ask them about that and when it will happen.
Posted by Bob Rehak on 6/4/2026
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