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Cade Smith
The districtâs board of trustees approved Cade Smithâs contract as the next superintendent. Smith could not be at the meeting since he was attending a board meeting at the district heâs departing, Brock ISD. Smith officially takes over at NBISD on June 1.Â
âI am so honored the NBISD board of trustees has selected me to be superintendent of this exceptional school district!â Smith said in a district statement released Tuesday afternoon. âI cannot wait to get started working alongside our staff to serve this amazing community.â
The board shifted around, making re-elected board member Eric Berquist of District 3 the next board vice president. Board secretary David Heefner remained in his position.
Harry Bowers and Lawrence Spradley captured races for New Braunfels city council, and all of proposed city charter amendments passed in unofficial election totals Saturday evening.
With all nine of the countyâs polling locations in, Bowers, the District 3 city council incumbent, defeated challenger Kevin Robles, with 1,027 votes (84.25%) to Roblesâ 192 votes (15.75%).
In the District 4 race, Spradley defeated Joy Harvey, 522 votes to 475, or 52.36% to 47.64%.
Winning Comal ISD trustees races were Courtney Biasatti defeated four-term District 2 incumbent and board President David Drastata, 708 votes to 502 (58.51% to 41.49%). District 1 incumbent and board Treasurer Tim Hennessee, tallied 298 votes (60.57%) to defeat 19-year-old college student Brittany Soto (129 votes; 26.22%) and businessman Jerry Sauceda (65 votes; 13.21%). In April the Comal ISD board declared Place 5 incumbent Michelle Ann Ross, running unopposed, as the winner for a second three-year term.
The largest field of candidates and issues since 2003 await New Braunfels voters, who on Saturday will select city council and charter amendments and New Braunfels and Comal independent school district trustees.
Comal County elections include mayoral and city council races in Garden Ridge and Bulverde, with Guadalupe County voters selecting city council members in Marion and school district trustees in LaVernia, San Marcos and Prairie Lea, which also features a bond measure.
Despite 14 candidates on local ballots, early voting was slow between April 19 and Tuesday. Elections Administrator Cynthia Jaqua said just 3,295 votes were cast at six county polling sites and 343 received through the mail as of Thursday.
Intermittent downpours might have kept many registered voters from casting ballots for candidates and issues in five May 1 elections, but officials are expecting many more during the final three days of early voting.
âThis is the cityâs first contested (May) election since 2012 â without them, it would really be slow,â Comal County Elections Administrator Cynthia Jaqua said of the 1,722 votes cast at polls and through the mail since the nine-day early voting period began Monday.Â
Jaqua said 84,034 of nearly 118,000 total registered voters are eligible to help decide races for New Braunfels, Comal and Marion school district trustees, city council members in New Braunfels, Garden Ridge, Bulverde and Marion, and 18 proposed amendments to New Braunfelsâ city charter.