Garland mayor not seeking re-election; town commissioner will file, instead
GARLAND — Mayor Austin Brown will not file next Monday for another term. He made that announcement during the Tuesday night board meeting.
“I feel like it was time,” Brown said in an interview after the meeting.
Brown said he works a full-time job as well as being a husband and a father to a two-year-old-son. “He’s getting to the age where he wants to do stuff and I don’t want to be so tied down that I can’t be there for him,” the mayor noted. “It was time to give the position to somebody who can be there all the time and tend to the town matters as it needs.”
That someone could be Mayor Pro Tem Ralph Smith Jr., who said during the meeting that he would file for Brown’s seat as mayor, giving up his commissioner’s seat, which is also among the open positions on the town board.
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