Texas PACE Open Forum, December 1, 2022, at 10:30 am CST.

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The 10th anniversary of the Texas PACE Act is in June 2023. Join Keeping PACE in Texas in person or virtually on December 1 from 10:30 to noon CST for a conversation about the past, present, and future of Texas PACE. The PACE in a Box program’s success in promoting uniform, user-friendly, sustainable, and scalable best practices across Texas is due to hundreds of stakeholder volunteers, including you.

Participate in this conversation about shaping the next 10 years of PACE in Texas. Hear what is happening as commercial PACE programs expand across the nation and influence the conversation about what is best for Texas now that TX-PACE is a proven concept. Join this important, forward looking conversation for all TX-PACE stakeholders.

REGISTER HERE to join in person or Virtually.

In person:
Office of Holland and Knight
98 San Jacinto Boulevard,Suite 1900
Austin, TX 78701

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Meeting ID: 834 8112 8071

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Meeting URL: https://hklaw.zoom.us/j/83481128071

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Houston Sets the PACE

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Today the Houston City Council adopted the first city PACE program in Texas – providing PACE economic development opportunity and environmental benefits to the nation’s fourth largest city and its entire extra-territorial jurisdiction.  After Mayor Annise Parker called for PACE earlier this year, Laura Spanjian, the Director of the City of Houston Office of Sustainability, launched a well run campaign to bring a PACE in a Box program to Houston.

Laura’s team of key city officials and stakeholders met bi-weekly with a tight schedule and clear goals.  It was a beautiful thing.  We’ve copied her model to create a “Starting a PACE Program Tasks and Timeline” outline of everything your community needs to start a PACE program in 14 weeks.  Laura’s PACE leadership started years before March 2012, when Laura spoke at our first PACE presentation at Thompson & Knight in Houston.  Then she labored with so many of us through the legislative process, the creation of PACE in a Box, and finally the establishment of Houston’s PACE program.

Those of you who have played roles large and small to create a strong, uniform, open-market program for all of Texas should take pride in helping to bring this Houston program to life.  Join me in congratulating Laura for her long standing effort to bring PACE home to Houston.  Be thinking of how to grow PACE projects in Houston and PACE programs for all of Texas.  Congratulations to all!

We did it, Laura; We did it!

CC Image courtesy of Kumar Appaiah on Flickr