Dwight Boykins
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| Member of the Houston City Council for District D | |
| In office January 2, 2014 – 2019 | |
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| Born | Dwight Anthony Boykins Houston, Texas, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic (council is nonpartisan) |
| Residence(s) | Houston, Texas |
| Education | Texas Southern University (BBA) |
| Website | Campaign website Government website |
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Dwight Anthony Boykins is a Democratic politician and former member of the Houston City CouncilinTexas, 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.
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]
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]
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.
