WoodlandskNOw PAC is formed, check out their website

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The WoodlandskNOw PAC has formed to oppose Props 1-2-3. These people make a lot of sense. Go to their website at woodlandsknow.com and click on the "Vote No 1-2-3" sidebar that will take you to a button where you can click the "WoodlandskNOw Fact Sheet" for a one page summary of their argument against the Props.

I think I'll vote "No", and I urge you to read and follow your conscience.

[mdonn76405]

Mike – a group of Woodlands residents that are concerned about the proposed TCID initiatives have formed (just today) a political action committee that is in opposition to the TCID initiatives to be voted on in November. Its name is WoodlandskNOw Political Action Committee. Its creation is the result of growing concern that the TCID Prop 1, 2, and 3 initiatives really are designed to prevent, not encourage, incorporation. Those involved in the establishment of this organization believe very strongly that this community needs to be able to incorporate as a city in order to ensure that the local governing body is receptive to resident concerns and accountable to them.



The website for this organization is

http://www.woodlandsknow.com/

www.woodlandsknow.com



There will be more information on the site in the next few days.



I am one of the concerned residents described above, so this is an effort that I am involved with. I’ve attached a FACT sheet, which is also on the website.



If you’d like to publicize this effort and further distribute the fact sheet, we’d be grateful.



Thanks. C



CHERYL CRANDALL TANGEN
ATTORNEY AT LAW


No Taxation Without Representation …A Revolutionary Concept
Residents of The Woodlands want:
Local governmental control, which is only provided by incorporating as a city.
Becoming a city allows residents to exert more control over land usage and development restrictions, traffic and other
public safety enforcement, and provides a permanent shield from annexation by other municipalities, including
Houston, unlike the current annexation moratorium agreement with Houston, which delays any annexation rights until
2014.
In spite of this preference, the residents are now asked to confirm a secretly-negotiated deal that will delay and, in
all likelihood, prevent the incorporation of The Woodlands as its own city.
The enabling legislation for this “deal” is presented to you for a “yes or no” vote on November 6th. Assuming that
it hasn’t changed from the December, 2006 announcement, the deal would:
• PAY the City of Houston a lump sum of $16 million, plus Woodlands tax revenue into the future estimated at
$45 million over thirty years, in exchange for Houston giving up its right to annex The Woodlands. These
sums dwarf the $200,000 that was paid for the current moratorium agreement.
• EXPAND the commercially-oriented Town Center Improvement District (TCID) to include all of The
Woodlands and rename it “The Woodlands Township,” even though it would lack many of the powers of a
town. The “new” TCID would have property taxing authority over all of the Woodlands and could freely shift
the property tax burden onto residents while moving expenditures away from residential needs and toward
TCID interests.
• PROHIBIT the incorporation of a new town of The Woodlands, perhaps forever, but for seven years at least..
Even after that long wait, citizens will not get to vote on forming a new town unless the TCID board allows
them to do so. There are several reasons that a commercially-oriented TCID board would not want an
incorporated city. First, a real municipality could use ordinances, planning and zoning, and building permitting
processes to put reasonable restrictions on development for the good of the residents to alleviate problems such
as traffic, noise and crime. Second, TCID would have to give up control over your property tax revenue. Third,
history shows that bureaucracies rarely vote themselves out of existence—as the expanded TCID would have
to do to allow Woodlands incorporation.
• Subject the citizens of The Woodlands to governance (and taxation) by the TCID Board that, for the first 2 ½
years, will not be a majority resident-elected board. During these 2 ½ years, incumbents on the Board may
implement other measures that make the community’s dream of becoming its own town to just that – a dream.
And deep-pocketed special interests will use an “at-large” voting scheme to keep incumbents in and prevent
neighborhood representation.
People may say that a lopsided deal is “good enough” since we can fix it later

LET’S FIX IT FIRST

Tell them,

“NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION”

VOTE NO on Props 1-2-3
(Pol. adv. Paid for by WoodlandskNOw Political Action Committee.)