2 Take Aways. 4 Bad Acting Utility Districts. Texas Editorial.

The Houston Chronicle editorial ” MUD Morass” lays out the following 2 problems with municipal utility districts:

• TRANSPARENCY. MUD ballot propositions are announced in “secret and concealed in silence by special districts”‘
  • 10 special districts in Harris County asked for  $826 million worth of bonds on the November 2017 ballot
• BAD ACTORS. Examples of utility district practices:
  •  Mount Houston Road MUD  lacked even a basic website to explain the ballot proposition & MUD refused to release phone numbers for its board of directors
  • Crosby MUD board of directors president refused questions about the bond proposition and referred people to the Crosby D.A.
  • The Woodlands’ neighborhood Timarron Lakes MUD “failed to warn that their property existed in the flood pool behind the Barker Reservoir.”
  • Cinco Ranch MUD president lives 20 miles away and didn’t go near the MUD during Harvey flooding