What are the three main reasons you are running for this office? Do you see any potential conflicts of interest?

(a) To save the eco-system which is being destroyed by the inorganic building of multi family apartment complexes 

(b) To close the Board of Directors and facilitate the transfer to the City of The Woodlands

(c) To Prepare a Zero-Base Budget to serve as a blue print for the first year of activities for the future City of The Woodlands 

With new legislation (HB347) prohibiting annexation of smaller communities by larger/adjacent cities unless approved by voters, is The Woodlands still obligated to pay-off Houston ($1 million) and Conroe ($500,000) for that purpose?

1-The HB347 prohibiting the annexation until the year 2057 is related to the legal status of the Township. If Harris County continues to pay for road expansions and bridges to increase mobility between Houston and Conroe, the HB347 wouldnt mean much since the physical annexation is there.This is called a De-Facto annexation and The Woodlands will be impacted by the high volume of trafic as its hapening right now on Kuykendahl Road.

2-During the first year, after the Township has been converted into a City, we don’t want to create problems with these other two cities since we may need them under the hybrid system proposed by the Novak Consulting, contractual model. After the second year we will have enough time to decide about these payments giving the authority to the new elected officials to decide what to do with these payments.

What, in your view, are the positive and negative aspects of the Township's current governance structure?

The governance structure is detrimental to the community because of the limit authority that the The Woodlands Township Board of Directors have.

The real authorities here are the Montgomery County Commissioners, County Judge and the Hughes Corporation (Woodlands Development Company).

The Hughes Corporation is taking advantage of this weak governance structure influencing Commissioners, Judge, Board of Directors and the local authorities working for utilities: Road Utility District and the 13 Municipal Utility Districts.

The Hughes Corporation is imposing their criteria on most of the relevant decisions affecting The Woodlands made the Montgomery County Commissioners and Judges

The Township Board of Directors, despite they are elected officials, are doing this job pro-bono so they don't have the incentive to get into a conflict with the commissioners or the powerful Hughes Corporation.

For them, is better to go along and reap the benefits of a harmonious relationship with Hughes but the consequencs are at plain view for the residents.

In addition, the Boards of Directors receive monetary suport from PAC's to get re-elected over an over and the person who decides who is going to be supported is the President of the Board.

So basically, the President of the Board, is the one who choses the other Board members and since they are under the obligation to pay back the favor, they suppport him with the votes he wants.

Term Limits should be part of the of the Woodlands Township Board of Directors Charter

Did you attend any of the Special Planning meetings on incorporation? If so, how many?

Attended most of them

Did you take a public position before the May 9, 2015 Road Bond election, and if so, what was it? And in a few sentences, explain why.

None

List all civic, political or union organizations or individuals to whom you have contributed time or money in the last five years.

Rep Kevin Brady

Republican Party

It's been reported that The Woodlands comprises only 20% of households in the county, yet provides almost double that (35%) of the county total in property taxes. What would/could you do to correct this gross imbalance of tax inequity?

Once the Woodlands Township is converted into the City of the Woodlands, the City Council should elaborate a plan to address this issue.

What three major changes would you like to see implemented by the Township?

(a) End of the Woodlands Township

(b) City of the Woodlands should implement zoning and Deed Restrictions to avoid the massive construction of apartment building and multifamily complexes

(c) To make the City of the Woodlands a tourist destination with first class family friendly resorts and Disney type parks. The 700 acres available to the Hughes Corporation to continue their hyperbolic building of apartments, could be dedicated instead to build a Woodlands thematic park, protecting the eco-system and invitiong tourist to come over and spend their money here.

The township budget funds all reserves 100% yearly. What is the current surplus and should any of it be returned to the residents or retained in a rainy day fund and if so, how much and why? Any other options for the surplus?

We should invest part of the money to generate more revenues, The best investment is in our community, making this a tourist destination as described above.

May be this is a far fetched idea but, why dont we buy out the Hughes Corporation development rights on the Woodlands?

On that way, we could use the 700 acres  to convert it into a thematic park resembling the eco-system, instead of buiding apartment complexes which are going to exacerbate the traffic around the Woodlands

The Woodlands is basically built out, except for some land held by Howard Hughes Corp(HHC). Are you concerned they(HHC) may use that to build multi-family housing? And what are the pros and cons of that?

That is the main reason why I am running. The Hughes corporation has proven a corporate predator in collusion with the MOCO Commissioners and the Harris County Commissioners.

If we allow them to build more apartment complexes, The Woodlands is going to dramatically change.

As it is right now we dont have a say but, if the Townshipo is replaced by the CIty of the Woodlands, the new authorities will be given the power to change things around. By restricting the Hughes Corporation powers they may reach a point where they may be enticed to sell the Development rights to the community.

That is where I am aiming.

Whenever The Woodlands wants to replat land inside it's jurisdiction, it has to go through either Cities of Houston or Conroe. How does this benefit The Woodlands and wouldn't this go away with incorporation?

Of course it will go away, that is why we are proposing to incorporate.

If we don’t incorporate the Woodlands, as we know it, will disappear.

Were you in favor of allowing the residents to vote on the incorporation question, once the incorporation planning process was complete? Why or why not?

The residents are not naïve about what is going on here.

They can see with their own eyes that the Woodlands is disappearing.

This is the only one decision I really liked from the present Board of Directors.

If The Woodlands residents vote to incorporate, will their tax obligations to the county be reduced, remain the same or increase. How much in any case?

From the Raftelis report the tax obligation should stay the same however, even if that is not the case, we don’t have an option.

We need to limit the expansion which Hughes wants to save the eco-system.

This is a survival mode in which we are, all other considerations incluiding possible higher taxes, are secondary

What are your thoughts about the Incorporation Financial model? Do you feel there are any shortcomings of it?

After reading the Novak report, I consider that their estimates are optimistic but not necessarily biased.

The property taxes at 2% and the sales tax at 2.75% are within the margin of error.

However build permits could be much higher.

As indicated before, even if the forecasting are optimistic, we have to do this to take the power away

from Hughes and protect the Woodlands.

Commissioner Riley is actively planning the extension of the Mansion's Way parkway. What should the Township do, if anything, to prevent a flood of cut though traffic on Woodlands Parkway?

The Woodlands Township cannot do anything to prevent what the Commissioners want to do.

Mr Riley is the one who made the statement: Progress does not need to be good.

The only way to stop this is to incorporate and put the question on the ballot, so when he realizes

that is massively opposed, he would change his position. That is the only l;anguage a politician

understand.

What is the effective tax rate for The Woodlands Township? What's the significance of this if home values (appraisals) go up and the tax rate stays the same as the previous year? Will incorporating impact taxes in TW if incorporation passes and how much?

We need to find alternative sources of revenue and I believe that it should come from tourism.

Tourism is good for the Woodlands since it has natural rural appeal and all the amenities of a large city.

The new City Council should think outside the box and deal with the City as a Corporation where

the profits are going to substitute or reduce the residents property taxes.

The 700 acres presently owned by the Hughes could be converted (for example) into a amusement park.

We need authorities with entreprenaural mentality

How long have you been consistently voting in elections? For which parties candidates? List all the elections you have voted in for the past 3 years (2014-2016).

Always voted and always voted for Republicans. There are however,  right now, some people registered as Republicans who are not really conservatives running for office to serve themselves and partcipate in the traffic of influences..

The case of the present and past Montgomery County Judges are two examples.

These people should have not been supported by the Republican Party or the Tea Party.

If they had a minimum of ethical values they should have resigned.

Should municipal and school board elections allow for ballot declarations of party/independent affiliation?

It should have, many real conservative people including myself, are getting frustrated by the cronyism and

exchange of favors happening in the local (and not so local) elections involving Republican representatives..

Academia is being infiltrated by people with leftist idiologies who are open Democratics activists.

This is what made me ran for a position with the Lone Star College Board of Trustee a few years ago.

I withnesed the idiological indoctrination of a black student by a white tutor who declared himself a leftist.

Some of the VP there, graduated from the University of Phoenix with a questionable MBA and continued to

a PhD from the University of Texas. How the University of Texas received a graduate from the University of

Phoenix? May be because she was a black person..

This is a non-paid position.  Do you think this role should receive compensation?  And if so, why....

The role of the Board of Directors shouldn’t be paid but the new position of City Council member and Mayor should be remunerated.

These positions are not hobies but full time responsibilities which require communication during normal business hours with government

agencies like the Army Corps of Engineers. 

Should Township directors serve at large or represent specific villages (districts)?

Each village should have its own City Council representative  

What political party have you affilated with over the last twenty years? Do you believe in that party platform(all of it or % part - if %, please describe what you disagree with?

Republican Party

I agree 70% of the time

I disagree with the PAC's, supporting people with no moral character.

Do you agree/disagree with MCTP Core Values?  Please explain if you disagree

I am a fiscal conservative following the economic theories from Paul Samuelson and Milton Friedman

Do you consider the skating rink an amenity in The Woodlands? If so what level of funding should be paid by taxpayer dollars?

Any amenities for tourist should be consider as an investment not as an expense.

The skating ring is an olympic game so I would approve it.

On the other hand the petitions going around to spend $6M for a bicycle track I wouldnt

agree since the number of partipants is not that large and they can use our roads after or before

regular working hours.

What's your position on a Performing Arts Center in the Woodlands and what should the funding source(s) be & at what percentage?

Again the museums and the performing arts should be incorporated as part of the amenities provided to the locals and the visitors. This is not an expense but an investment.

We need establish our niche, something that the Woodlands will be nationally (and internationally) recognized, to attract tourists.

We need to stop thinking with a mediocre mentality as if we were just another Sugar Land or Katy, we are not like those.