2025 Candidates

Supports prioritizing local hiring on city projects, supporting small businesses, expanding apprenticeships and career technical education pipelines with regional employers, and promoting fair, safe workplaces.

Supports prioritizing local hiring on city projects, supporting small businesses, and expanding apprenticeships and career technical education.

Supports promoting fair, safe workplaces.

- Supports prioritizing local hiring on city projects, supporting small businesses, and expanding apprenticeships and career technical education.
- Supports promoting fair, safe workplaces.

Economy

Wants to strengthen partnerships with local school districts and colleges, invest in tutoring and after-school programs, and expand scholarships and parent engagement.

Supports creating a one-stop navigator for veteran benefits, housing, mental health, and job placement.

- Wants to strengthen partnerships with local school districts and colleges, invest in tutoring and after-school programs, and expand scholarships and parent engagement.
- Supports creating a one-stop navigator for veteran benefits, housing, mental health, and job placement.

Public Services

As of September 18, 2025, Marcel Howard did not have a website or any information online.

Housing & Urban Development

Public Safety

Plans to repave streets, improve drainage, modernize water and wastewater systems, add sidewalks, lighting, and broadband, and publish a transparent capital plan tied to grants and cash flow.

Plans to add sidewalks, lighting, and broadband, and publish a transparent capital plan tied to grants and cash flow.

Plans to repave streets, improve drainage, and modernize the water and wastewater system.

- Plans to add sidewalks, lighting, and broadband, and publish a transparent capital plan tied to grants and cash flow.
- Plans to repave streets, improve drainage, and modernize the water and wastewater system.

Transportation & Infrastructure

Energy & the Environment

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Marcel Howard

Marcel's campaign for Glenn Heights City Council Member, Place 4 is his first entry into politics.

Wants to strengthen partnerships with local schools and colleges, invest in tutoring and after-school programs, and expand scholarships and parent engagement.

Plans to improve infrastructure by repaving streets, improving drainage, modernizing water and wastewater systems, adding sidewalks, lighting, and broadband, and publishing a transparent capital plan tied to grants and cash flow.

- City council members collaborate to create and enforce city policies, including legislation on essential services like police, fire, parks, libraries, and utilities.
- They work alongside the mayor to manage city departments, including transportation and parks and recreation.
- Council members can be elected to represent specific districts or the entire city at-large.
- The structure of city councils, including the number of members, their terms, term limits, and partisanship, differs by county.