 Brandon Capetillo is Mayor while council members are Robert Hoskins, Chris Presley, Laura Alvarado, Charles Johnson, Heather Betancourth, and David Himsel.The City of Baytown operates the Sterling Municipal Library, which has a collection of 300,000 items.The original Goose Creek Library opened in 1925; the first county library in Texas, it was funded by the private donations of Humble Oil and Refining Company president Ross S. Sterling.