City of Horseshoe Bay

By Nathan Hendrix
Staff Writer

Necessity is the mother of invention, and in the age of COVID-19, the need for sanitation and decontamination is at an all-time high.

Concerns about surfaces that may transmit the virus motivated the firefighters with the Horseshoe Bay Fire Department to get creative with their methods for cleaning equipment. Using examples from other fire departments around the country, the first responders turned a standard oxygen tank into a germ-removing spray gun. …

By Lew K. Cohn
Managing Editor

The city of Horseshoe Bay will purchase new self-contained breathing apparatuses (SCBA) for Horseshoe Bay Fire Rescue for $107,000 to take care of a critical equipment need in response to a request made earlier this month by Fire Chief Brent Batla.

Batla said the new air bottles and air packs will be paid for using money taken from the capital budget for a new fire rescue boat. The majority of SCBA within the department will be reaching their mandated end-of-life between this fiscal year and next, Batla said. …

By Lew K. Cohn
Managing Editor

A move by the Horseshoe Bay City Council to issue and sell general obligation refunding bonds will save the city more than $400,000 in interest for the remaining life of the bonds, the city's financial advisor said at Tuesday's regular meeting.

Council members agreed to refund $5.83 million in combination tax and revenue certificates of obligation issued in 2011 and replace them with $5.405 million in general obligation refunding bonds when the original bonds hit their callable date on Feb. 15. …

By Lew K. Cohn
Managing Editor

For nearly seven years, the City of Horseshoe Bay has tried to preserve the historic Conrad Fuchs House, but the task proved daunting in terms of the time and money needed to complete the project.

By Lew K. Cohn
Managing Editor

Horseshoe Bay City Councilmember Cynthia Clinesmith was elected the city's third mayor during the Tuesday, Nov. 5, general election, according to complete but uncanvassed returns.

By Lew K. Cohn
Managing Editor

Horseshoe Bay city officials and Property Owners Association representatives expressed frustration with a new state law they say removes the city's authority to set more stringent community building standards.

By Lew K. Cohn
Managing Editor

The new Horseshoe Bay fire chief is no stranger to towns which straddle a county line, and no stranger to Horseshoe Bay, either.

Brent Batla was unanimously named the city's next fire chief during the Oct. 15 Horseshoe Bay City Council meeting.

By Lew K. Cohn
Managing Editor

Cottonwood Shores will continue to rely on Horseshoe Bay for wastewater treatment services for the foreseeable future under an agreement reached Tuesday, Oct. 15.

Lew K. Cohn/The Highlander

Horseshoe Bay Mayor Pro Tem Jerry Gary, left, congratulates Mayor Steve Jordan after the city council voted unanimously Oct. 15 to name Ranch to Market Road 2147 from Ferguson Road to Texas 71 after Jordan, who championed the widening of the roadway during his tuenure in office. The council also appointed a new fire chief, Brent Batla. For these stories,see the Tuesday, Oct. 22 edition of The Highlander.

By Lew K. Cohn
Managing Editor

A full house of more than 300 people listened intently as the Horseshoe Bay mayoral Cynthia Clinesmith and Reagan Lambert laid out their cases to be elected Thursday at the Horseshoe Bay Yacht Club Ballroom.