Lakeway Mayor Sandy Cox will leave office on Monday after serving in the role for three years and winning back-to-back elections in 2018 and 2019 when the city changed term lengths for local officials. Cox said she first ran to try to bring people together as the city underwent rapid growth and a shifting demographic.
“I m a planner,” she said. “I really thought we needed some tools in place for the city to get much more sophisticated about how we approach economic development, plan for the future and bring the voices of the people in. . How do we encourage people to participate? How do we really hear what they want?”
All results are unofficial until certified and canvassed by the county clerk.
Bee Cave
The makeup of Bee Cave City Council will remain unchanged following the May 1 local election. Incumbents Andrew Clark, Kevin Hight and Andrea Willott will hold onto their seats after receiving a majority of votes.
Bee Cave voters also approved a special election to reauthorize the local sales and use tax along with eight ballot propositions focused on updating the city’s charter.
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Eanes ISD
Incumbents Jennifer Champagne and James Spradley will retain their seats on the Eanes ISD board of trustees after beating out their challengers.
Changes coming to Pflugerville, Lake Travis school boards
For Travis County election results and vote count totals, please visit our election results page.
Champagne, Spradley keep seats on Eanes school board
Incumbents Jennifer Champagne, Place 5, and James Spradley, Place 4, will keep their seats on the Eanes school board after a very contentious and expensive election.
Final results from the county show Champagne with 54.5% of the votes in her race against opponent Jennifer Stevens. Spradley led challenger Nigel Stout with 55.5% of the vote.
About 10,400 votes were cast in each race, including about 7,400 early ballots cast in person. These numbers are significantly higher than previous spring elections in Eanes in 2019 closer to 2,700 people voted for school board races in May.
The Lakeway City Council voted Monday night to extend the winter storm disaster declaration, which will help those applying for financial relief do so more easily, Mayor Sandy Cox said.
Cox called the storm “probably the worst disaster this area has ever experienced in its history” and thanked city staff, first responders and the community for helping the area pull through the crisis.
Cox said the city did not initially declare a disaster because the state and county declarations covered the area. However, Cox did sign a declaration on Feb. 26 to help local business owners and homeowners apply for aid related to the storm. Now that the order has been extended, it will be up to the mayor to rescind it, which Cox said she would do when the state disaster declaration ends.
In the wake of the unprecedented winter storm that dumped freezing rain and more than a foot of snow on the Lakeway area during a week in mid-February, Lakeway City Council on March 1 unanimously approved extending a disaster declaration for the city.
Lakeway Mayor Sandy Cox first declared a disaster within the city limits Feb. 26. The disaster declaration will make it easier for residents to file insurance and other kinds of claims to cover damages resulting from the storm, she said.
During the meeting, Cox said she would keep the disaster declaration in place as long as Gov. Greg Abbott keeps a similar declaration in place for the state of Texas. Abbott issued a disaster declaration for the state Feb. 12. Travis County Judge Andy Brown issued a disaster declaration for the county Feb. 14.