Key Issues

Let's Focus on What Matters Most - Service

Continue improving drainage while keeping taxes low

Continue working in concert with surrounding districts

Explore opportunities for stormwater reuse

Brazoria Drainage District 4 employs over 70 people, and these employees deserve fair pay and benefits in return for their hard work and dedicated, responsive service.

Drainage Districts cannot operate effectively in a vacuum. Our Master Drainage Plan update is coming up, and we will be spending time working directly with the City of Pearland on that. We will continue working closely with Brookside Village to help meet the needs of that community, as well as with Manvel as appropriate. We need to create proactive solutions that work for the entire region rather than just putting band-aids on problems that come to us from upstream districts or sending our own problems to downstream districts.

Texas is running out of potable (drinkable) water. This may not be critical in our area yet, but that may change. We should explore ways to leverage "greywater" such as storm runoff for things like watering grass, cooling equipment, showers, toilets, etc. These solutions may not be practical today given the regulatory restrictions and infrastructure limitations we are faced with, but they can be practical tomorrow if we start working on them now.

Continue taking good care of our people

No one likes property taxes, and that includes me. The District must strike a balance between keeping our drainage systems in good working order, developing additional capacity to reduce the impact of future storms and keeping taxes as low as possible. When I said that we could do all three at once, people were understandably skeptical, but my first term demonstrated that we can!