The Fort Bend County Commissioner’s Court approved the final project plans for the 2017 November mobility bond election during a bond workshop at a regular court meeting Tuesday afternoon.

With the addition of one project in Precinct 3, the total number of projects is now 64 and the grand total for the bond is $218.5 million.  The grand total for the project costs is approximately $388.8 million.

Fort Bend County Engineer Richard Stolleis said the difference is because funding will come from different sources.

“The question had been, 'Well why is there a difference in the numbers?' [and] that’s really the explanation—there [are] sources of funding coming from… other cities, from [the county appraisal district] from developers,” Stolleis said.

Changes were made to nine projects in an effort to accommodate the disparity in project cost and proposed bond amounts.

“Some went up and some went down,” Stolleis said. “Every change that was made was for a different reason [because] every project is different.”

The new project that was added includes an additional segment to Roesner Road from the Harris County line to the I-10 frontage road that Commissioner Andy Myers proposed at the last workshop. The project includes a four-lane boulevard with a concrete curb, gutter and storm drainage and has a project cost and bond amount of $1.2 million. It includes the design only phase.

As last week’s Commissioner’s Court meeting, Precinct 1 Commissioner Vincent Morales said he was considering pulling the Ransom Road project from the list after Sugar Land and the city of Richmond pulled funding support.

However, he and Stolleis said the project will remain on the bond list in a design-only phase. The project cost was cut from approximately $2 million to $520,000, and the initial bond amount was cut from $850,000 to $520,000.

“I decided that we ought to go ahead and get it shelf ready,” Morales said. “The cities may change their mind…. [but] I would like to go ahead and have [the project] ready to go because it is needed.”

Commissioners will officially call for the proposed November bond election during a special meeting at 10 a.m. Aug. 9 in the courthouse off Jackson Street.