Agenda Item 8(d): Adopt Resolution removing Director

You’ve seen my signs. I’m running for re-election. But after this Wednesday, the other four MUD Board members will likely vote to remove me. Make no mistake: I am still running.

How can they do this? First, I own my part. I owe you an apology. You expect your representatives to show up, and if my attendance was perfect, they couldn’t do this. I had near-perfect attendance my first two years. But since Chris Rocco and Carrol Norrell joined in 2024, the board has become openly hostile. Six months in, they sued me and my wife on baseless grounds. In February, President Beth Jones refused to let me back on the dais after I stepped away to talk to someone and then tried to have me removed. At the next meeting, she ordered the board attorney to call 911 on my wife for smirking. The attorney refused.

Meanwhile, I work an essential government transportation job. When I'm called up, I have to go. Because this board is suing me, I’m working extra shifts just to pay my legal defense. I haven’t asked them for scheduling favors because they wouldn't give them anyway.

Here is the math. I’ve missed 5 regular meetings in 12 months. The law says a director can be removed for missing half of all regular scheduled meetings. So, the board weaponized the calendar. They reclassified our standard Wednesday 5:30 PM meeting last week as a "special" meeting, and they canceled three other regular meetings. By shrinking the number of "regular" meetings to just 9, my 5 absences hit the threshold needed to oust me. They used the upcoming 25-year bond sale as a smokescreen to pull it off.

This isn’t over. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) can overrule this, and I expect them to reverse this scheduling stunt, though it won't happen overnight.

Whatever happens Wednesday, my focus is on the next four years. I plan to share that dais with my fellow Vote 3 candidates to bring much-needed reform to our MUD. This removal attempt is pure spite. The board has continued to have a quorum. District business has continued. My term is almost over, and voters will decide in November whether they want me to serve another four years.

So what public purpose is served by removing an elected director just weeks before the voters themselves get to decide? I believe the voters should make that decision—not four board members.

For the last several years, I have pushed for transparency, questioned spending, challenged decisions I believed were wrong, and asked questions that sometimes made people uncomfortable.

I am going to continue doing that.

Whatever happens Wednesday, I am still running for re-election, and I still intend to earn your vote.

If you want these games to stop, vote to send Beth Jones and Hanoi Avila packing.