
{"id":1221,"date":"2007-11-01T07:35:41","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T15:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2007\/11\/01\/carrboro-board-of-alderman-candidate-joal-hall-broun\/"},"modified":"2007-11-01T07:35:41","modified_gmt":"2007-11-01T15:35:41","slug":"carrboro-board-of-alderman-candidate-joal-hall-broun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2007\/11\/01\/carrboro-board-of-alderman-candidate-joal-hall-broun\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrboro Board of Alderman candidate: Joal Hall Broun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/brounresized.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/brounresized.jpg\" height=\"182\" width=\"243\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Age: <\/em>46<\/p>\n<p><em>Neighborhood:<\/em> Spring Valley Subdivsion<\/p>\n<p><em>Family:<\/em> Married to Jonathan E. Broun, two children<\/p>\n<p><em>Profession\/Business: <\/em>Attorney; director, North Carolina Department of the Secretary of State, Lobbying Compliance Division<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><em>Education &amp; Experience:<\/em><br \/>\nTwo-term incumbent, seeking my third term. I am a graduate of Wake Forest University, B.A. History, 1983; Wake Forest School of Law, J.D., 1986. I previously served on the Orange Water and Sewer Authority for 5 years and I am a former member of the board of directors for the Orange County Dispute Settlement Center.<\/p>\n<p><em>Endorsements: <\/em>Hank Anderson Breakfast Club, Carrboro Police Officer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Association, N.C. Sierra Club, Independent Weekly<\/p>\n<p><em>What do you hope to accomplish if elected?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If I am elected, I want to continue to create policies that will increase affordable housing and more moderately priced housing. I want to continue to increase the commercial tax base in order to maintain Carrboro\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s affordability and also to alleviate the taxes on the residential taxpayer.<\/p>\n<p><em>What are the top two or three critical issues facing Carrboro?<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>1. Increasing affordable and moderately priced housing.<\/p>\n<p>2. Ensuring that the town remains affordable for all of its citizens.<\/p>\n<p>3. Ensuring that the town will have sufficient revenue to meet its capital improvement needs.<\/p>\n<p><em>What have you learned about our town in the campaign?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I learned that our town still has a great need for affordable housing. The citizens are concerned about the Rogers Road neighborhood\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s waste transfer site and believe that the site selection was flawed and should be re-executed. I learned that citizens are happy with the new sidewalks, Adams Tract and the plans for the extension of greenways. The citizens are concerned about the cost of living in Carrboro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 Age: 46 Neighborhood: Spring Valley Subdivsion Family: Married to Jonathan E. Broun, two children Profession\/Business: Attorney; director, North Carolina Department of the Secretary of State, Lobbying Compliance Division<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}