Whereas San Antonio voters will mull a number of candidates working for mayor and Metropolis Council within the Could 3 native elections, 9 small Bexar County cities could have their very own contested elections this spring.
A complete of 65 candidates had efficiently utilized by the Feb. 14 state deadline for elected workplace throughout the 15 Bexar County municipalities scheduled to carry a Could election.
Most candidates are looking for a two-year time period in workplace besides the place famous. There aren’t any election runoffs within the small cities, so it’s a winner-take-all system, even when a candidate claims a seat by just one vote.
Right here’s a look at who’s working for workplace in municipalities outdoors San Antonio.
Balcones Heights
Native voters will vote in contested races for 3 Metropolis Council seats and on a proposal to repeal a police collective bargaining initiative.
Metropolis Council Place 3 incumbent Juan Lecea Jr., a former metropolis plumbing inspector and member of town’s planning and zoning fee, was first elected to the council in 2021.
Lecea’s challenger, Jimmy Hernandez, is an authorized tax preparer.
Place 4 incumbent and present Mayor Professional Tem Mark Saenz is looking for a second time period with the council. A U.S. Marine Corps veteran, Saenz beforehand served in town’s planning and zoning fee.
Saenz’s opponent, Tracy Ebersole, is an area enterprise proprietor and member of town’s planning and zoning fee.
Place 5 incumbent Miguel Valverde is retiring from Metropolis Council. The U.S. Military veteran spent a number of years serving on numerous Balcones Heights committees and as a reserve police officer.
Rudy Flores III is a planning and zoning commissioner. He and Molly Weaver are vying to succeed Valverde.
Moreover, Balcones Heights voters will contemplate a proposal to repeal town’s police officer affiliation’s capability to have collective bargaining. Native officers have cited a good funds and finite monetary sources as causes to think about limiting collective bargaining for uniformed police personnel. In response to the poll, a “for” vote helps a repeal.
Honest Oaks Ranch
Voters on this Hill Nation city will contemplate contested races in all three Metropolis Council seats which are up for grabs on the poll. The victors will serve a three-year time period.
Metropolis Council Place 3 incumbent Ruben Olvera gained a December 2023 particular election to interchange Councilwoman Michelle Bliss, who resigned for private causes.
An lawyer and Texas A&M College graduate, Olvera served on the Honest Oaks Ranch Municipal Growth District board previous to his election to the council.
Olvera will face a problem from Scott Andrew Rose.
Place 4 incumbent Councilwoman Laura Koerner, the present mayor professional tem, is finishing her third and ultimate time period in workplace. Honest Oaks Ranch permits three three-year council phrases. Now, two contestants are vying to succeed Koerner.
Dale Pearson is a present metropolis planning and zoning fee member who works for Boerne-based NWSA Realty. Pearson will face James Roff for the Place 4 publish.
Place 5 incumbent Scott Parker is looking for a second time period with the Honest Oaks Ranch council. He served with the U.S. Air Power and the Air Nationwide Guard for almost 30 years. Kevin Cox is Parker’s challenger.
Hollywood Park
Considered one of three obtainable Metropolis Council seats on the poll could have a contested race.
Place 1 incumbent Jim Rodriguez was appointed by the council to interchange Chester Drash, who ascended to the mayor’s workplace in Could 2024. Drash was the lone resident to file for mayor in these elections.
Retired from the U.S. Navy, Rodriguez is a mechanical/electrical/plumbing engineer who owns his personal consulting engineering firm. He beforehand served on Hollywood Park’s board of adjustment and board of appeals.
Alan Sale is the president of the city’s financial improvement company. Sale and one other resident had utilized alongside Rodriguez after they all sought to interchange Drash because the Place 1 council member.
Place 3 incumbent Dale Randol, an insurance coverage government, filed for a second time period with the council. He drew no opposition.
Place 5 incumbent Glenna Pearce utilized for a 3rd time period in workplace. She drew no opposition.
Hill Nation Village
This Northside suburb has seen few contested elections in recent times, however many residents have spent the previous 12 months debating the deserves of a plan to rebuild and increase the city’s municipal advanced, which incorporates the police station.
Carl Register, who had spent greater than 20 years as an elected official with Hill Nation Village, died on Sept. 11, 2024 at age 85. The Place 1 council seat has since remained empty.
Heather Chandler is one among two residents vying to assert a full two-year time period because the Place 1 consultant. She serves with the city’s board of adjustment and enterprise development evaluate board, and is an alternate zoning fee member. Patrick Schneider is Chandler’s fellow candidate.
Place 3 incumbent Thomas Doyle declined a bid for a second time period on the council. Robert Walker and lawyer Frank Rivas are vying to interchange Doyle.
Place 5 incumbent Allison Greer Francis, an government at The Heart for Well being Care Companies, has served a number of phrases as a Hill Nation Village council member. She is challenged by Ian Thompson, a surgeon who makes a speciality of oncology and urology.
Kirby
There will probably be a full slate with voters mulling a contested mayoral race, and having to think about seven candidates who’re looking for three at-large council seats.
The election will comply with a controversial transfer by the council, which voted 4-3 in January to rehire Brian Rowland as metropolis supervisor. Rowland was fired over a 12 months in the past after some metropolis staffers complained about him berating them at work.
Mayor Janeshia Grider, a medical billing technician who’s Kirby’s first Black mayor, will face challenger Christopher “Chris” Garza. Garza misplaced his Metropolis Council reelection bid in 2024 and ran unsuccessfully for mayor in 2021.
In 2021, Garza pleaded responsible to a decreased misdemeanor cost of sexual assault, the results of an incident that occurred at a Colorado lodge in 2013.
Metropolis Council incumbent Sally I. Hitt, whose time period would finish this Could, is lively with a number of neighborhood organizations and initiatives, together with being a board officer with the Kirby Senior Heart Corp.
Incumbent Joe Molina, who ran for a council seat in 2022, was appointed to the council to interchange Mike Grant, who resigned not lengthy after profitable reelection that very same 12 months.
Incumbent Maria Lozano has been lively with some neighborhood teams, occasions and applications, such because the senior heart company.
4 extra residents who’re looking for a council publish are: David Barboza, a previous council candidate who’s lively with native teams such because the senior heart company; Susan Avenue, an educator who misplaced a council reelection bid in 2023; chiropractor Jonathan Todd, and Jeffery Bass.
Leon Valley
This metropolis’s council will acquire one uncontested new member at one place this election cycle, however one other place is being contested by an incumbent and a political newcomer.
Place 1 incumbent Benny Martinez, an area enterprise proprietor, was first elected to the council in 2014. He beforehand served in town’s zoning fee.
Council voted to take away Martinez from workplace in 2019. Fellow metropolis leaders mentioned Martinez violated town constitution by undermining town supervisor. However Martinez was reelected to council in 2023.
Danielle Bolton, Martinez’s lone challenger, is an assistant principal at East Central Excessive Faculty. She ran for council in 2023.
Place 3 incumbent Philip Campos was the lone applicant. He’s an authorized public accountant who beforehand served on town’s planning and zoning fee.
Place 5 incumbent Will Bradshaw declined to hunt a fourth council time period. Mary Mursch, a retired scientific laboratory director, was the lone applicant. She is an alternate member of town’s capital enhancements advisory committee and the planning and zoning fee.
Dwell Oak
The Northeast Aspect suburb could have one contested Metropolis Council race.
Place 1 incumbent Mendell Morgan Jr. is retiring following 11 years as a council member.
Angela Inexperienced, the lone resident to file for the Place 1 seat, serves with town’s financial improvement company board, and is an alternate planning and zoning fee member.
Place 3 incumbent Erin Perez, a nurse practitioner and creator, is looking for a 3rd time period in workplace. She drew a problem from Alexandra McPherson.
Place 5 incumbent Aaron Dahl is unopposed in looking for an eighth straight time period.
Olmos Park
Voters will see one contested Metropolis Council race within the Could elections.
Place 1 incumbent Adam Harden, who beforehand served with town’s planning and zoning fee, is a principal on the native legislation agency of Cantu Harden Montoya.
Chris Pal-Freeman, Harden’s opponent, is founder and head brewer at Breakaway Brewing Co., positioned within the Authorities Hill neighborhood.
Place 2 incumbent Juliana Decamps Dusek is an occasion planner who has expertise in data know-how and promoting. She is working unopposed.
Place 3 incumbent Sharon Plant, an area enterprise proprietor, was first elected to the council in 2011.
Common Metropolis
Three incumbent council members and a fourth resident will participate in an election the place voters are requested to decide on three whole at-large council members from the poll.
Ashton Bulman, Christina Fitzpatrick and Bear Goolsby are the incumbents.
Bulman and her household homeschool their three kids; Ashton has volunteered for a number of neighborhood occasions and organizations through the years.
Fitzpatrick is an government with Acrisure, a monetary know-how and insurance coverage agency.
Goolsby is a principal on the agency of Powers Goolsby Architects.
Patrick Day is a property disposal specialist with the Protection Logistics Company.
