The May 7 ballot for local races will be pretty light this year as only one of the 12 local seats set to be filled is contested.
The lack of municipal candidates for the May election is in sharp contrast to the multiple-candidate Republican primary races four county positions are experiencing this March, as well as compared to last year when multiple seats were contested for both the Fair Oaks Ranch City Council and the Boerne Independent School District board of trustees.
Two seats were potentially up for grabs on the BISD school board this year, but Place 4 will be the only contested municipal race. Incumbent Maritza Gonzalez-Cooper is set to face off against Armando Trevino.
Trevino’s Fair Oaks Ranch address is associated with Red Door Exchange, which is identified on its website as a small familyand veteran-owned business operated by he and his wife, Catherine. Gonzalez-Cooper is finishing her third elected term on the BISD board, and she is vying for a fourth term this year. She first was elected in 2013.
Boerne ISD terms are for three years. The other current trustee who filed to keep his seat was Garrett Wilson in Place 5. Wilson was appointed last year to fill out the remainder of the current term after former Trustee David Spencer resigned.
Although there are three city council seats up for grabs in both Boerne and Fair Oaks Ranch, the District 3 Boerne City Council seat is the only spot that came close to a race as incumbent Quinten Scott had an opponent in Daniel Weis for the second time. However, information from the city last weekend indicated Weis withdrew his name just before the Friday deadline for candidate filings.
Scott and Weis faced off for the District 3 city council seat in November 2020, which was the last time the seat was on the local election ballot.
District 1 and District 5 were also set for the May ballot, but nobody contested incumbents Ty Wolosin or Joseph Macaluso. In the end, the city will opt to cancel a May election agreement with the Kendall County Elections Department, as there will be no contested races.
In Fair Oaks Ranch, only the incumbents for the three seats set to be filled this May filed for a city council seat. This means Place 3 incumbent Michelle Bliss, Place 4 incumbent Laura Koerner and Place 5 incumbent Scott Parker will return for three-year terms.
Bliss and Parker were both serving their first stints on city council and both were serving the remainder of unexpired terms after Steve Hartpence moved out of the city, leaving Place 3 up for a special election, and after Snehal Patel ran for the mayoral seat last year, leaving Place 5 up for an election as well.
Koerner was first elected to FOR City Council in 2017, the first election since the implementation of the city’s home rule charter, and she was elected again in 2019. This will be her third term in office, the technical limit for holding consecutive city council seats.
Because of the lack of contested races, the city of Fair Oaks Ranch will withdrawal its election order, and the three incumbents will carry on in their role for three more years.
There was an election ordered for the Cow Creek Groundwater Conservation District this May to fill the District 1, District 4, District 2 and at-large director seats, but, again, there will be no contested races, meaning the election order will be withdrawn and the groundwater district won’t see a place on the ballot this spring.
District 2 Director Ben Eldredge and the at-large director, Allan Bloxsom, will switch seats this year in an effort to keep the same set of directors. Eldredge moved out of District 2 last year, requiring him to resign from his position. However, the board opted to keep him in holdover status until another candidate came forward.
Now, on the heels of an election, Bloxsom offered to switch roles with Eldredge, as Bloxom resides within District 2 and Eldredge still resides within the CCGCD jurisdiction.
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