The city of Sugar Land is seeking resident feedback on how to make Burney Road safer. 

The details: City staff presented four options for improving Burney Road at the intersections of Stadium Drive and Jess Pirtle Boulevard at a Sept. 23 public meeting. The presentation comes as officials are conducting an engineering study looking at traffic flow, safety, design options and neighborhood impacts.

Options include:

• Adding roundabouts to both Stadium Drive and Jess Pirtle Boulevard intersections

• Adding traffic signals to both Stadium Drive and Jess Pirtle Boulevard intersections

• Adding a traffic signal to Stadium Drive and a roundabout to Jess Pirtle Boulevard

• Adding a roundabout to Stadium Drive and a traffic signal to Jess Pirtle Boulevard

Looking forward: The traffic study is expected to be completed in November, Barrios said. City staff will then review the study and determine potential design, construction and funding needs, but a specific timeline has not been established.

Therapy 4 Littles, a pediatric speech & occupational therapy company, is set to open its doors in Missouri City in 2027.

What they offer: The business offers speech therapy by licensed therapists for children eight months to 18 years old using play-led and child-led approaches as well as occupational therapy, according to its website. The goal is to help children develop motor skills, sensory processing and daily living skills.

Therapy 4 Littles will allow parents to wait in a private room with a one-way observation window, which co-founder Bekah Cherian said helps them implement activities and therapy techniques at home.

About the business: Cherian said she wanted to start the business because her sons went to therapy for one year, and she saw the light bulb turn on in their mind as they learned to communicate.

“I would love to see children get that light bulb,” Cherian said.

• 6133 Sienna Ranch Road, Ste. A, Missouri City

The Texas Education Agency is asking state lawmakers to spend $97.3 billion on K-12 education initiatives and staffing in the next two years, up from about $91 billion in the current state budget.

The details: During a Sept. 29 hearing on the agency's legislative appropriations request, Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath noted that the TEA is "largely a pass-through vehicle to fund schools around the state of Texas." This means that while funding would be allocated to the agency under Article III of the state budget, the majority of that money would be sent to school districts, outside of funds used to pay TEA staff and cover operations for associated entities, such as the State Board of Education.

The TEA is asking for about $49.6 billion for fiscal year 2027-28 and $47.7 billion for fiscal year 2028-29, totaling $97.3 billion for the 2028-29 biennium. Morath said those amounts would "preserve 100% of all funding for public schools" through the Foundation School Program, which is the state's main funding source for K-12 schools, and other initiatives.