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By WCN Staff
Wilson County News
Most of the incumbent candidates prevailed in municipal and school-board elections that ended Saturday evening in Wilson and southern Bexar counties.
A majority of voters approved a $25 million bond issue at the East Central Independent School District, according to unofficial returns.
An annexational election in southern Bexar County attracted candidates for the board of the rural Evergreen Underground Water Conservation District, but the issue failed by 26 votes, according to unofficial totals.
A few of the area’s public entities had canceled their elections because of the absence of challengers against incumbents: the city councils in La Vernia and Stockdale, and the city council and school board in Falls City in northern Karnes County.
The following unofficial results will have to be canvassed before they become official. An asterisk (*) following a candidate’s name indicates an incumbent.
City councils
Elmendorf
Mayor:
Mary Alice Casanova 92
Tom Green 27
George Mabry Sr.* 112
Alderman, place 3:
Angel Avitia* 108
Thomas Hicks 117
Alderman, place 5:
Linda Peña Ortiz* 119
Naomi Quiroz 106
Floresville
Mayor:
LaJuana Newnam 566
Raymond M. Ramirez* 664
Alderman, place 1:
Juan Ortiz* 691
Mark A. Sanchez 478
Alderman, place 2:
Cissy Gonzalez* 689
Frank T. Villarreal 517
Poth
Mayor:
LaNell Matthews* 247
Richard Pollok 202
Councilman, at large (two seats): Rita Serna and Fred Wauters, unchallenged incumbents.
St. Hedwig:
Mayor:
Mary Jo Dylla* unopposed
Councilman, place 2:
Ronald D. Nead 73
John Silver* 102
Councilman, place 4:
Steven F. Carmichael 67
Ronald Mills* 112
Independent school districts
East Central
Proposition: A bond sale of $25 million (with an increase in district property taxes) for the construction of a new intermediate school and middle school.
For, 516
Against, 202
Floresville school board
Trustee, district 3:
Rachel Peña* 35
Trustee, district 5:
Gary Allen 10
Larry Angle* 42
La Vernia
Trustee, place 5:
Joe Felan* 259
David Watson 512
Trustee, place 6:
Frances Jenkins 248
Joyce Kneupper* 467
Randy Malesky 58
Trustee, place 7:
Jerry McWhorter* 567
Patricia "Pat" Recker 180
Poth
Trustee, at large (three seats):
Ronald W. Eckel* 630
Adolfo Serna 455
Geraldine "Gerri" Garza* 417
Gina Korzekwa 228
Lance Malcher 103
Trustee, at large (one year unexpired term):
Leroy Garza 227
Steven J. Raabe* 324
Stockdale
Trustee, district 1:
Leroy Sanchez 45
Maureen West* 58
Water district
A grass-roots drive last summer for annexation of a portion of southern Bexar County by the Evergreen Underground Water Conservation District (which comprises Wilson, Karnes, Atascosa, and Frio counties) led to this special election.
The unofficial results: for annexation and taxation, 322; against, 348.
"I guess we’ll find out how good of managers of ground water SAWS and BexarMet are," Mike Mahoney, the Evergreen’s general manager, said Monday.
The petition drive stemmed from some southern-Bexar well owners’ fears that the San Antonio Water System and Bexar Metropolitan Water District someday might pump the Carrizo Aquifer there to the point of "draw down" of neighboring wells.
SAWS already has spent millions of dollars on a 3,000-acre site in extreme southern Bexar for aquifer storage and recovery and, according to recently revised plans, drought-emergency pumping of up to 14,000 acre-feet annually in 2004 and/or 2005. (See SAWS story, this issue.)
"All we can do is monitor the water wells in the district for levels … and see what kind of effect it has in the district," Mahoney said.
He acknowledged that BexarMet’s customers in the area proposed for annexation might have turned out in some numbers to vote against Evergreen representation and taxation.
The area proposed for annexation was bounded by the Atascosa and Wilson county lines on the south; S.H. 16 on the west; Loop 1604 on the north; and, U.S. 181 on the east.
The election went through a series of legal hurdles, and was rescheduled from Feb. 2.
"We’ve spent around $60,000 on this election," Mahoney said, "and to spend this much money for the election to fail certainly is a disappointment."
An early version of this story appeared Monday morning at www.wilsoncountynews.com.
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