Cellipont Bioservices, a cell therapy contract development and manufacturing organization, began construction Nov. 10 for its new 76,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in The Woodlands.
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Don and Barbara and Gebert worked as missionaries in Guyana in the 1950s and their family eventually grew to five children. (Courtesy Barbara Gebert)
When Don Gebert moved to The Woodlands from Philadelphia in 1975, he was charged to “innovate” in the mission of founding religious resources for the fledgling community.
Gebert died March 15 at the age of 91, but his innovations live on in the form of Interfaith of The Woodlands as well as other organizations he helped to found such as Montgomery County Health Services and the community’s first hospital.
“Reverend Don Gebert was an amazing individual who cared about others to the fullest extent and believed that it was the responsibility for people to take care of those less fortunate,” said Ann Snyder, a member of The Woodlands Township board of directors and a former president of Interfaith.
"It's really a slap in the face to the township," Director John Anthony Brown said.
One point the directors discussed in depth was how the county had reimbursed itself for law enforcement expenses. The county allocated $50 million of CARES funds to reimburse county public safety expenses, Sharp said. Directors questioned whether that reimbursement was for public safety expenses already funded by the township. The Woodlands Township contracts with Montgomery and Harris counties for law enforcement contracts.
"If they got reimbursed for the same expense, that’s double indemnification; that’s not right,” board of directors Chair Gordy Bunch said.
Bunch said the township was working with local legislators to ensure that there is language in future aid packages that will “bypass an arbitrary redistributor,” stating that federal funds intended for cities and entities like the township had not been allocated as intended.