The Woodlands Township board Position 6 candidate Questions & Answers
Paul Brown
Consultant [email protected] 281-419-7334
What makes you the best candidate for this position?
I am a 26-year resident who is sensitive to taxpayer interests. Independent of The [Woodlands] Development Co. and any other business that does business with The Woodlands Township, I will impartially represent taxpayers’ interests and apply common sense and deep business experience to township issues. I am a versatile business leader with proven management experience in sales, service, customer experience, operations, technology and organization transition. I spent 25 years with JP Morgan, then seven years as an executive in successful Internet startups. In 2007, I started my own consulting company.
What are some of the biggest challenges The Woodlands faces in the coming years?
The biggest challenges are rooted in communication and organization. I believe annual budgets should be submitted annually to taxpayers for approval. Directors should be completely independent of commercial entities that do business with The Woodlands Township for 10 years prior to standing for election. The Woodlands Township should have road management in the hands of a single commissioner, and the precinct should cover the township’s boundaries. We need township officials to articulate township positions on issues important to our community and to take an active leadership role in mobilizing taxpayer votes for elected officials in Montgomery and Harris counties who will be sympathetic to The Woodlands’ interests. The upcoming road bond has no funding for residential areas of The Woodlands.
What are some solutions the township could implement to help solve The Woodlands’ traffic issues?
The biggest issues regarding traffic in The Woodlands are access into and out of The Woodlands on Research Forest and Lake Woodlands drives and Woodlands Parkway and to the southern portion of The Woodlands over the Gosling Road and Kuykendahl Road bridges. Improvements for all of these roads should be included in the November road bond. Additional funding needs to be provided for turning lane improvements and traffic signals in the residential areas of The Woodlands. Without all of these improvement areas included in the November bond bill, residents should vote the bond down. The taxpayers in The Woodlands pay above 40 percent of the taxes in Montgomery County, and we should participate in a larger amount of the bond’s dollars.
