While San Antonio citizens will certainly review numerous prospects competing mayor and Common council in the May 3 neighborhood political elections, 9 little Bexar Area cities will certainly have their very own opposed political elections this springtime.
An overall of 65 prospects had actually efficiently used by the Feb. 14 state target date for chosen workplace throughout the 15 Bexar Area communities arranged to hold a May political election.
Many prospects are looking for a two-year term in workplace other than where kept in mind. There are no political election drainages in the little cities, so it’s a winner-take-all system, also if a prospect asserts a seat by just one ballot.
Right here’s an eye that is competing workplace in communities outside San Antonio.
Balcones Heights
Local citizens will certainly enact opposed races for 3 Common council seats and on a proposition to reverse a cops cumulative negotiating effort.
Common council Area 3 incumbent Juan Lecea Jr., a previous city pipes examiner and participant of the city’s preparation and zoning compensation, was initial chosen to the council in 2021.
Lecea’s opposition, Jimmy Hernandez, is a licensed tax obligation preparer.
Area 4 incumbent and present Mayor Pro Tem Mark Saenz is looking for a 2nd term with the council. A united state Marine Corps professional, Saenz formerly offered on the community’s preparation and zoning compensation.
Saenz’s challenger, Tracy Ebersole, is a neighborhood entrepreneur and participant of the city’s preparation and zoning compensation.
Area 5 incumbent Miguel Valverde is relinquishing Common council. The united state Military professional invested numerous years offering on numerous Balcones Levels boards and as a book policeman.
Rudy Flores III is a preparation and zoning commissioner. He and Molly Weaver are competing to prosper Valverde.
In addition, Balcones Levels citizens will certainly take into consideration a proposition to reverse the city’s policeman organization’s capability to have cumulative negotiating. Neighborhood authorities have actually mentioned a limited budget plan and limited funds as factors to take into consideration restricting cumulative negotiating for uniformed cops workers. According to the tally, a “for” ballot sustains an abolition.
Fair Oaks Cattle Ranch
Voters in this Hillside Nation community will certainly take into consideration opposed races in all 3 Common council seats that are up for grabs on the tally. The victors will certainly offer a three-year term.
Common council Area 3 incumbent Ruben Olvera won a December 2023 unique political election to change Councilwoman Michelle Happiness, that surrendered for individual factors.
An lawyer and Texas A&M College grad, Olvera offered on the Fair Oaks Cattle Ranch Municipal Advancement Area board before his political election to the council.
Olvera will certainly encounter an obstacle from Scott Andrew Rose.
Area 4 incumbent Councilwoman Laura Koerner, the present mayor professional tem, is finishing her 3rd and last term in workplace. Fair Oaks Cattle ranch permits 3 three-year council terms. Currently, 2 candidates are competing to prosper Koerner.
Dale Pearson is an existing city preparation and zoning compensation participant that helps Boerne-based NWSA Real Estate. Pearson will certainly encounter James Roff for the Area 4 article.
Area 5 incumbent Scott Parker is looking for a 2nd term with the Fair Oaks Cattle ranch council. He offered with the united state Flying Force and the Air National Guard for virtually thirty years. Kevin Cox is Parker’s opposition.
Hollywood Park
One of 3 offered Common council seats on the tally will certainly have a disputed race.
Place 1 incumbent Jim Rodriguez was selected by the council to change Chester Drash, that rose to the mayor’s workplace in May 2024. Drash was the single local to apply for mayor in those political elections.
Relinquished the United State Navy, Rodriguez is a mechanical/electrical/plumbing designer that possesses his very own consulting design firm. He formerly offered on Hollywood Park’s board of change and board of allures.
Alan Sale is the head of state of the community’s financial growth company. Sale and an additional local had actually used together with Rodriguez when they all looked for to change Drash as the Area 1 council participant.
Area 3 incumbent Dale Randol, an insurance policy exec, applied for a 2nd term with the council. He attracted no resistance.
Area 5 incumbent Glenna Pearce requested a 3rd term in workplace. She attracted no resistance.
Hillside Nation Village
This Northside residential area has actually seen couple of opposed political elections over the last few years, yet several homeowners have actually invested the previous year disputing the advantages of a strategy to reconstruct and increase the community’s local facility, that includes the police headquarters.
Carl Register, that had actually invested greater than two decades as a chosen authorities with Hillside Nation Town, passed away on Sept. 11, 2024 at age 85. The Area 1 council seat has actually given that continued to be vacant.
Heather Chandler is just one of 2 homeowners competing to assert a complete two-year term as the Area 1 agent. She offers with the community’s board of change and organization building and construction testimonial board, and is an alternative zoning compensation participant. Patrick Schneider is Chandler’s fellow prospect.
Area 3 incumbent Thomas Doyle decreased a proposal for a 2nd term on the council. Robert Pedestrian and lawyer Frank Rivas are competing to change Doyle.
Area 5 incumbent Allison Greer Francis, an exec at The Facility for Healthcare Providers, has actually offered numerous terms as a Hillside Nation Town council participant. She is tested by Ian Thompson, a cosmetic surgeon that concentrates on oncology and urology.
Kirby
There will certainly be a complete slate with citizens weighing a disputed mayoral race, and needing to take into consideration 7 candidates that are looking for 3 at-large council seats.
The political election will certainly adhere to a debatable action by the council, which elected 4-3 in January to rehire Brian Rowland as mayor. Rowland was terminated over a year ago after some city staffers whined concerning him scolding them at the workplace.
Mayor Janeshia Grider, a clinical invoicing service technician that is Kirby’s initial Black mayor, will certainly encounter opposition Christopher “Chris” Garza. Garza shed his Common council reelection quote in 2024 and ran unsuccessfully for mayor in 2021.
In 2021, Garza begged guilty to a minimized offense fee of sexual offense, the outcome of an occurrence that took place at a Colorado resort in 2013.
Common council incumbent Sally I. Hitt, whose term would certainly finish this Might, is energetic with numerous neighborhood companies and campaigns, consisting of being a board policeman with the Kirby Senior Citizen Facility Corp.
Incumbent Joe Molina, that competed a council seat in 2022, was selected to the council to change Mike Give, that surrendered not long after winning reelection that exact same year.
Incumbent Maria Lozano has actually been energetic with some neighborhood teams, occasions and programs, such as the elderly facility company.
4 even more homeowners that are looking for a council article are: David Barboza, a previous council prospect that is energetic with neighborhood teams such as the elderly facility company; Susan Road, a teacher that shed a council reelection quote in 2023; chiropractic doctor Jonathan Todd, and Jeffery Bass.
Leon Valley
This city’s council will certainly obtain one uncontested brand-new participant at one setting this political election cycle, yet an additional setting is being opposed by an incumbent and a political beginner.
Area 1 incumbent Benny Martinez, a neighborhood entrepreneur, was initial chosen to the council in 2014. He formerly offered on the community’s zoning compensation.
Council elected to get rid of Martinez from workplace in 2019. Other city leaders claimed Martinez breached the city charter by threatening the mayor. However Martinez was reelected to council in 2023.
Danielle Bolton, Martinez’s single opposition, is an aide principal at East Central Secondary School. She competed council in 2023.
Area 3 incumbent Philip Campos was the single candidate. He is a state-licensed accountant that formerly offered on the city’s preparation and zoning compensation.
Area 5 incumbent Will Bradshaw decreased to look for a 4th council term. Mary Mursch, a retired professional research laboratory supervisor, was the single candidate. She is an alternative participant of the city’s funding renovations advising board and the preparation and zoning compensation.
Live Oak
The northeast residential area will certainly have one opposed Common council race.
Area 1 incumbent Mendell Morgan Jr. is retiring complying with 11 years as a council participant.
Angela Eco-friendly, the single local to apply for the Area 1 seat, offers with the city’s financial growth company board, and is an alternative preparation and zoning compensation participant.
Area 3 incumbent Erin Perez, a registered nurse professional and writer, is looking for a 3rd term in workplace. She attracted an obstacle from Alexandra McPherson.
Area 5 incumbent Aaron Dahl is unopposed in looking for a 8th straight term.
Olmos Park
Voters will certainly see one opposed Common council race in the May political elections.
Area 1 incumbent Adam Harden, that formerly offered with the city’s preparation and zoning compensation, is a principal at the neighborhood law office of Cantu Harden Montoya.
Chris Pal-Freeman, Harden’s challenger, is owner and head maker at Breakaway Developing Co., situated in the Federal government Hillside area.
Area 2 incumbent Juliana Decamps Dusek is an occasion organizer that has experience in infotech and advertising and marketing. She is running unopposed.
Area 3 incumbent Sharon Plant, a neighborhood entrepreneur, was initial chosen to the council in 2011.
Universal City
Three incumbent council participants and a 4th local will certainly participate in a political election where citizens are asked to select 3 overall at-large council participants from the tally.
Ashton Bulman, Christina Fitzpatrick and Bear Goolsby are the incumbents.
Bulman and her family members homeschool their 3 youngsters; Ashton has actually offered for numerous neighborhood occasions and companies for many years.
Fitzpatrick is an exec with Acrisure, a monetary innovation and insurance coverage company.
Goolsby is a principal at the company of Powers Goolsby Architects.
Patrick Day is a home disposal professional with the Protection Logistics Company.
