The Killeen City Council officially swore in two new members and elected a new mayor pro tem on Tuesday night. Councilmember Steve Harris will retain his District 4 seat until that race is settled either by recount or by a new election.
At present, the election is tied with Harris and challenger Michael Boyd receiving 181 votes apiece.
The canvass board, composed of Councilmembers Ken Wilkerson and Rick Williams, presented the ordinance, which showed 2,583 votes were cast in the May 1 election and listed the official vote tallies for each candidate.
When Mayor Jose Segarra called for the vote to approve the canvass, Councilmember Mellisa Brown chose to abstain from the vote.
The Killeen Independent School Districtâs release of former bus driver William âBillâ Jonesâ termination record raised more questions than it answered, according to Jonesâ family.
Killeen ISD bus driver William “Bill” Jones died by suicide less than 24 hours after he was terminated by Killeen ISD following an accident involving a middle school student and a Ford F-150 on the first day of in-person school, Aug. 31. Jones was driving the school bus that day, when police said he failed to activate the flashing warning lights and equipment during a bus stop. When a child got off the bus, and then crossed the street, he was hit by the passing pickup, causing serious injury to the student. Read more here: https://bit.ly/39Knjsa.