Does the President/General Manager know of all decisions beneath him with TAXPAYERS' money?  Bid practices conducted in The Township, seem to have been unethical with the uniform bid.  The first bid was thrown out and who made that decision?  John Powers after Cintas representative contacted him after they failed to submit.   How were the bid tabulations conducted and who oversaw this bid?  Is there something unethical and unlawful?   Were the tabulations manipulated in Cintas’ favor?  Cintas must have the inside track, but how?   The Township Parks and Recreation handled this bid and the Board of Directors approved.  How about the tree services bid?  Why was it allowed to expire after sixty days?

How about termination and hiring practices?  The adopted Township orders state, “It is illegal for any individual to discharge a firearm, air gun, ect. on Township property”.  One staff member did so and the Assistant General Manager felt there was no cause for termination but suspension.     We wonder what would happen to a taxpaying resident if he or she were involved in such an incident.   It seems the Human Resource Director was ready to terminate the employee. 

About a year and a half ago under the Community Associations, the Human Resource Director terminated an individual for insufficient paper work for an injury, only to have the acting General Manager at the time inform her that she needed to reinstate this individual.  The individual was reinstated and assigned to a different division.  Less than three weeks later the individual was discovered to be an illegal worker with improper paper work from a tip by an angry spouse.  Maybe this is why the Human Resource Director was able to highly recommend a friend’s spouse for a middle management position that never met qualifications for the position.    

Additional benefits – Human Resource Director was granted free pool passes for her family in 2010 after the Board of Directors voted down extension of employee discounts for passes and program fees.  She was awarded passes in a United Way campaign but check the funny transactions in The Woodlands Township registration software.  Glad to see taxpayers are picking up the tab on four pool passes.  She should have paid non-resident fees but got by with resident passes.  Did the United Way award recognize them as resident or non-resident?  Why the multiple transactions in the registration software?  The Girls Scouts received discounted pool fees for summer camp, but not Montgomery County Youth Services and who made these decisions on taxpayers’ dollars?  Were all of these campers residents?

Many other decisions have been made at the executive levels that have been unethical and probably unlawful.  Some started and precluded The Woodlands Township during the Community Association days; from allowing staff to take home alcohol to jeopardizing bid practices, to moving a former board president to the top of a waiting list of taxpaying residents, they all start at the top.  Do you recall someone at the Community Associations buying alcohol with residents’ assessments a few years back? 

Where there is smoke there is fire.  What else is there?  Plenty and was the President/General Manager involved in any of these decisions; the Assistant General Manager and Human Resource Director were.  How about the Board of Directors, what knowledge do they have with some of these practices?  The three individuals listed above amount to over $570,000 in salary and additional compensation.  Salaries and car allowances alone amount to over $460,000.  Are these the practices we want from government employees making decisions for TAXPAYERS?  

You need to look into the relationship between the H.R. Director and Girl Scouts.  The H.R. Director uses on duty employees to distribute cookies to other Scout Troops.