Elgin council: three contested seats
$183.7M Bastrop school bond, council seats to be decided
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Gibson, Maldonado, Callahan elected to Elgin City Council
Three seats were up for grabs in the Elgin City Council with Arthur Gibson III, Skyler Maldonado and Matthew Callahan winning those elections, according to the unofficial results Saturday night.
In the race for one of the Ward 1 positions, Arthur Gibson III defeated Sarah Gudenkauf. Gibson received 66 votes compared to Gudenkauf s 47.
Gibson, a third-generation resident of Ward 1, unsuccessfully ran for election to a Ward 1 seat in November against Elgin Mayor Pro Tem Jessica Bega.
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After nearly a decade, Bastrop has reinstated its Heritage Bench Program which allows residents to purchase a plaque to adorn benches in the city s Main Street District with their names or messages.
After first selling plaques in 2012 under former Bastrop Main Street Manager Nancy Wood, the program has returned after the Main Street Rehabilitation Project was completed in late November.
Rebecca Gleason, Bastrop’s assistant city manager for community engagement who also serves Main Street director, said one of the goals of the rehabilitation project was to create community gathering spaces and the benches are helping to shape those zones.
A second grant from Houston-based Episcopal Health Foundation is aiming to address health issues in Bastrop County.
On Feb. 4, Central Texas Interfaith announced it received a $300,000 grant from the foundation to build sustainable organizing clusters in Bastrop, Brazos, McLennan and Williamson counties as well as in western Travis County.
The grant and organizing clusters will help CTI a non-partisan, multi-issue coalition of 50 congregations, labor organizations, nonprofits and schools continue to expand into a 10-county Central Texas region with a focus on health and well-being issues.
“This grant invests in the development of ordinary leaders in working class and marginalized communities across the region to secure their family’s health and well-being,” said Doug Greco, the lead organizer of CTI. “It doubles down on CTI’s organizing work in building non-partisan constituencies in legislative districts across the 10-county area.”
Bastrop City Council Member Drusilla Rogers is seeking reelection to the Place 2 seat “to serve another term in order to continue the work we have started and to see other (initiatives) to fruition.”
Rogers, who was first elected in 2018, said that during her first three years in office the council began several projects that will shape the city’s future for generations to come, such as the new B3 codes the council approved in November 2019 in its overhaul of land-use and zoning regulations.
Rogers said approving those regulations has been her proudest accomplishment while in office.
“The new B3 codes that we developed with a great deal of citizen input, while not yet perfect, will assure that Bastrop’s character and flavor will be maintained for future generations to enjoy what we love about our city,” she said. “I look forward to working with our city manager to complete what we have begun.”