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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use mdy dates Шаблон:Infobox officeholder Dwight Anthony Boykins is a Democratic politician and former member of the Houston City Council in Texas, representing District D where he was born and raised. He was elected to the council in 2013 in the general election on November 5, 2013.[1] He was also a candidate for Mayor of Houston in the 2019 election.

Biography

Dwight Boykins is from Houston, Texas, and attended Stephen F. Austin High School. He received a bachelor's degree in marketing from Texas Southern University. A small business owner, Boykins has also served on the city's Hurricane Ike Relief Fund Board and Oversight Committee of ReBuild Houston.[2]

Political career

Dwight Boykins was sworn in to the Houston City Council in 2014. He represented council District D which runs through Houston's southern quadrant. It contains the Houston Museum District, Texas Medical Center, and the under resourced neighborhoods of the south side.[3] As a member of City Council, Dwight served as Chair of the Ethics, Elections & Council Governance Committee and was a member of the following committees: Budget and Fiscal Affairs; BFA Subcommittee on Debt Financing and Pensions; Regulation and Neighborhood Affairs; and Housing and Community Development.[1]

Mayoral Candidate

Dwight Boykins based his mayoral campaign on streamlining the City's Budget by implementing what he called Zero-Based Budgeting. According to the Boykins' campaign, using Zero-Based Budgeting would have allowed the City to pay for important priorities such as Infrastructure, Pay Parity, Collective Bargaining Obligations, Public Safety, Street Repairs, Potholes, and Trash Pickup.

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