Beaumont Beat

#MardiGras is upon us! And today’s guest is the Board Chairman for Mardi Gras Southeast Texas, Tim Romero. Now celebrating its 33rd year, Mardi Gras Southeast Texas is family friendly and there are many ways to get involved this weekend from joining or watching a parade to catching live entertainment and the carnival. The event is actually a fundraiser with proceeds benefiting 14 area non-profits!...

Today’s guest, Mr. Issacc Mouton, will share places to go, people you should know, and ways to honor #BlackHistoryMonth in Beaumont. Issacc is a community organizer in Beaumont, Texas. He created and operates the Southeast Texas Black-owned Restaurant Foodie Facebook page, is a small business owner, and podcast host. Issacc also wrote the Black History and Culture Itinerary for Visit Beaumont, TX...

Join us for the Season 2 premiere of the Beaumont Beat as Beaumont City Manager Kenneth R. Williams shares a bit about his first full year here, what we can look forward to in 2024, how the city is balancing being fiscally responsible while planning for the future, and a topic that many of you are wanting to hear more about - the plans for downtown. Resources: Cattail Marsh Facebook Library Websit...

The Beaumont Police Department has been running the #BlueSanta program for over 30 years to help children in need and foster positive police interactions. Learn how you can get involved in spreading joy throughout the community during the holiday season and year-round. Unlike other cities, BPD’s Blue Santa is not a self-sign-up style program. Instead, our officers nominate families in need who the...

With the holiday season in full effect, we wanted to ensure your celebrations are one to remember for all the right reasons. On today’s show, we have tips from Justin Jackson, Environmental Health Manager, who’s talking to us about food preparation, leftovers, and safety, and Mike Harris, Director of Water and Sewer, to talk about FOG (fats, oils, and greases) and the proper disposal of waste afte...

Meet the Beau-Monsters, the Convention and Visitor Bureau’s (CVB) newest and cutest mascots! Learn all about their personalities and how they came about. You'll also hear all about our new online digital gift shop, GoBeauGifts.com. This is where you can get all of your Beaumont Merch!  You’ll also learn a little about birding in Beaumont, what a CVB is, about the economic impact on our local econo...

Welcome to the new and improved Beaumont Beat podcast. We’ve rebranded the City Manager Minute and changed up the format to give you a closer look at the inner workings of the City of Beaumont. We've added video cameras to the lineup. so you can watch this and future podcasts too! Today you’ll meet some of the furry residents of Beaumont Animal Care, hear about recent shelter improvements, expansi...

Future thinking – today. Beaumont’s Community Investment Plan (CIP) was just approved, which is a multi-year plan to identify, prioritize, budget, and plan major city projects and improvements and identify potential funding sources for fiscal year 2024-2028. There are seven major buckets of projects: Parks, Recreation, Facilities, Water, Wastewater, Drainage, and Streets, but the document is fluid...

It’s been a year since we split Parks and Recreation into two departments so we could focus on each separately – beautification and programming. Hear how it’s going, where we’re at with the $1.4M in projects funded, and what citizens can soon look forward to, including pear trees coming back in Pear Orchard and other edible fruit trees planted as a way to combat food deserts around town.    Resour...

The City of Beaumont manages 750+ miles of sewer main lines, 10,000+ manholes, and 43,000+ sewer taps, which is no small endeavor. Whet your whistle and get answers to all your burning questions and clear up the misconceptions - what is going on with the city’s water and sewer system? Who monitors the water quality? Why do we sometimes have leaks and brown water? And where are we at with the leaks...

Today we discuss the art and science of budgeting - balancing the wants and needs of council while being fiscally responsible to not put an excessive financial burden on the citizens. We always strive to find a happy medium between making the dollars work for the city and maintaining enough of a cushion and fund balance in case of emergencies. This year’s budget features a number of investments in...

In this special episode, we’re talking about the emergency drought conditions throughout Beaumont and the state of Texas and how we need citizens to help us conserve water while water restrictions are in effect. We discuss what activities are limited, how we’re addressing the leaks, and that there are no water quality issues. The health and safety of our customers is and will always be our #1 prio...

We talk about the potential economic impacts and potential next steps for building a full-service convention center hotel downtown. We also address how a convention center differs from a civic center, how hotel revenue can potentially lower your taxes, and what the Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB) does to drive tourism and bring business to the area. Resources: Downtown Hotel/Convention Center...

📢 Exciting News! The City of Beaumont has a new podcast. 📢 Check out our first episode of the Beaumont Beat, a new avenue to connect citizens directly to the Executive Office. Listen along as we discuss hot topics and developments for the City of Beaumont straight from the source.  To kick things off, we talk about the tragic national crime epidemic in America and answered the age-old question,...