Re-Elect Tahir
Charles

On the ballot for Director, Harris County Water Control and Improvement District No. 89.

See the record

Tue, Nov 3, 2026Election day
Oct 19–30Early voting
Tahir Charles in a red hard hat and safety badge, standing on a walkway above the aeration basins of a wastewater treatment plant.
At a wastewater treatment facility during an industry site visit.

A water district is invisible until it fails.

A water control and improvement district runs the water, wastewater, and the taxes. The one I serve covers 874 acres and 2,740 completed homes. Most residents never think about any of it, which is the point, and also the risk.

I have served this term as Secretary of the Board. My promise is not a slogan, it is a standard you can hold me to: a complaint with a clock on it, a budget you can actually read, a street you can see at night.

“Opening fire hydrants cannot be the only answer.”

What I’ve Done

Four categories, in my order. Everything under Delivered has happened. Everything under Next is what I am committing to for the term ahead.

01

Water

“Opening fire hydrants cannot be the only answer.”

Flushing a hydrant moves water. It does not, by itself, make water better. I have worked to get the problem written down, timed, and put in front of the people paid to fix it.

Delivered

  • Real-time complaint tracking, put in front of the water operator. Every inquiry carries a clock.
  • A detention pond brought under district ownership, transferred from Brunswick Meadows to WCID 89.

Next

  • Water quality that truly improves, measured and reported, not hydrants offered as the answer.
Tahir Charles standing beside an open manhole on a residential lawn, coned off with four orange traffic cones.
An open manhole, coned off on a residential street.
Staff of Municipal Operations and Consulting behind two blue tables under a canopy at a district event.
The district’s water operator, out in front of residents at a district event.
Tahir Charles outside the WEFTEC conference, in front of the large WEFTEC sign.
WEFTEC, the water industry’s annual conference.
02

Safety

Furman is lit. Scott and Cullen are the next stretch.

Safety here is unglamorous. Whether the street is lit. Whether the pavement is sound. Whether the district’s own buildings are being watched by somebody.

Delivered

  • Streetlights on Furman Road.
  • Monitoring of the district’s property: the Administrative Building and the wastewater treatment facilities.
  • Street repair kept on the agenda, meeting after meeting.

Next

  • Scott Street and Cullen Boulevard, the next stretch of streetlights.
Tahir Charles pointing at a Harris County WCID 89 yard sign reading Slow Down, We Love Our Kids, Drive Safe.
A district yard sign: slow down, we love our kids, drive safe.
Tahir Charles standing beside a Harris County constable deputy holding a stack of blue leaflets.
Event photograph with a Harris County constable deputy. Not an endorsement.
Tahir Charles with a Harris County constable, a young resident and another adult outside a district building.
Event photograph at a district building. Not an endorsement.
Tahir Charles standing with Councilwoman Dr. Carolyn Evans-Shabazz, who is speaking into a microphone, outside the district Administration Building.
Event photograph with Councilwoman Dr. Carolyn Evans-Shabazz at a district event. Not an endorsement.
03

Finance

“How much do we cost?”

A board can approve a bookkeeper’s report without ever seeing what it means. I built the view that shows the trend and the spike at a glance, then asked the harder question about what the district costs to run.

Delivered

  • Served as the district’s Investment Officer.
  • Built the dashboard behind the bookkeeper’s report, so trends and spikes read at a glance.
  • Asked what the district costs to run. Meeting time and building rentals should break even.

Next

  • Sales tax revenue, implemented, starting December 2026.
Tahir Charles shaking hands in front of a Government Finance Officers Association banner reading Together We Thrive.
Government Finance Officers Association.
Tahir Charles at the 2026 AWBD Annual Conference holding a hand-lettered sign that reads: Fellow Directors, did the county pay for streetlights, sidewalks, etc? Did county officials help? We got issues. Let's chat.
2026 AWBD Annual Conference.
04

Community

Every district event is also an open floor.

That is deliberate. If the only place to ask a question is a board meeting on a weekday evening, most people never ask one.

Delivered

  • The Turkey Drive.
  • AquaFest at the Administration Building, and every other district event, run as questions and answers.

Next

  • The floor stays open. Every event, every meeting.
Tahir Charles in front of boxes of frozen turkeys being bagged by volunteers beside a constable vehicle.
The Turkey Drive.
A young volunteer carrying a turkey to the open door of a waiting car while Tahir Charles looks on.
Handed to the car, one at a time.
Tahir Charles speaking from a lectern at a district meeting in a community room.
Taking the floor at a district meeting.
A community room of seated residents facing the front at a district meeting.
And the other half of it: the room.

Hurricane
Beryl

July 2024. I walked the neighborhood. I drove residents through the high water. Supplies went out the same day, door to door.

  • WATER
  • MREs
  • ICE
  • TRASH BAGS

Numbers, not adjectives

These are the district’s own figures, not campaign claims.

How fast a complaint gets answered

19 May to 29 June 2026

0.71 days

Average time to resolve.

Inquiries logged
28
Households served
24

Topics logged in this period: leaks, water quality, no water, low pressure. Reported by the district’s water operator, Municipal Operations & Consulting, in place since 3 October 2025. No resident names or addresses are published here.

What the district is holding

General operating fund, as of 1 July 2026

24.46 months

Of operating reserve.

Operational
$4.34M
Capital projects
$2.29M

This is the view the board reads. It is the same view the dashboard was built to produce: the trend and the spike, without hunting for them.

The district,
exactly.

This is the district’s own engineering plot. The dashed line is the boundary. If your home sits inside it, this is your board, and this is your ballot. Select a marker to see what is there.

Engineering plot titled Harris County WCID No. 89, District Overall. A desaturated aerial photograph of the district with a heavy dashed line marking the boundary and yellow shapes marking district facilities.
Furman RoadStreetlights delivered. The district’s western edge.
Scott StreetNext stretch of streetlights.
Cullen BoulevardNext stretch of streetlights. The district’s eastern edge.
Fellows RoadThe southern edge, and the district office at 3455 Fellows Rd.
Beltway 8The district sits on both sides of it.
Brunswick Meadows Brunswick Lakes Morningside Place
  • District boundary
  • District facility
  • Streetlights delivered
  • Next stretch

District Overall, Harris County WCID No. 89. Drawn by MK Engineering & Consulting, project HC89-001-001, issued July 2025. Scale 1 inch to 300 feet. Open the full sheet.

In the news

“This involves me when I leave Bible study on Wednesday trying to come back home on Scott.”

Tahir Charles, speaking to KHOU 11

KHOU 11 · 12 March 2026

“Residents say years-long push for streetlights on south Harris County roads continues” — on the dark stretches of Furman Road, Scott Street and Cullen Boulevard.

Read and watch the report

News coverage, not an endorsement. The report and the video belong to KHOU 11; the link opens their story.

What comes next

  1. WaterWater quality that truly improves, measured and reported.
  2. SafetyStreetlights down Scott Street and Cullen Boulevard.
  3. FinanceSales tax revenue, implemented, starting December 2026.
  4. CommunityThe floor stays open. Every event, every meeting.

Four commitments, in my words, from the same four categories as the record above.

I am asking
for your vote.

Election day
Tuesday, November 3, 2026
Early voting
October 19 to 30, 2026
On the ballot for
Director, Harris County WCID 89
Who votes
Registered voters who live inside the district. If your home is inside the dashed line, that is you. See the boundary.
Portrait of Tahir Charles wearing a Harris County WCID 89 cap and polo shirt.

Back the work.

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Thank you.

That matters more than you know. Tahir will see your name come through, and he answers people himself.

If anything goes wrong, write to tahir@tahircharles4harriscounty.com.

How to reach me

The district website is for district business, not campaign business. For billing or service, call the district office at 281‑367‑5511, or write to 3455 Fellows Rd, Houston, TX 77047.