Horseshoe Bay City Council

By Lew K. Cohn
Managing Editor

Two veteran Horseshoe Bay City Council members will face off against each other to become the next mayor during the Nov. 5 election.

From staff reports

Horseshoe Bay City Council will hold two public hearings on a proposed not to exceed tax rate of 29 cents per $100 valuation, which exceeds both the effective and rollback tax rate for 2019.

The first public hearing will be held at 3 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 27, while the second will be at 9 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 3. Both will be held at City Hall, 1 Community Drive, Horseshoe Bay.

By Lew K. Cohn
Managing Editor

Horseshoe Bay's terrain and sprawl makes it difficult to run fiber optic wiring underground for broadband internet services, an advisory committee reported to City Council Tuesday, July 16.

By Lew K. Cohn
Managing Editor

Water quality was on the table for discussion at the Horseshoe Bay City Council meeting on Tuesday, March 19, as council members considered several fluid topics.

Llano County final, unofficial results for Nov. 7 Election Day confirm the decisions of Burnet County voters.
Cynthia Clinesmith and Reagan Lambert won the two Horseshoe Bay City Council seats.
Llano County results were 302 votes, or 42.48 percent, for Clinesmith and 271 votes, 38.12 percent, for Lambert. Hoover received 138 votes, 19.41 percent, of 711 votes cast.
Mayor Steve Jordan, unopposed, received 384 votes.
Also in Horseshoe Bay, Llano County voters said “yes” to the proposition to reauthorize a local sales and use tax at the rate of one-fourth of one percent to provide revenue for maintenance and repair of municipal streets. The vote was 367 votes, or 83.79 percent, in favor and 71 votes, 16.21 percent, against.
In Burnet County, voters in the  Horseshoe Bay City Council race, gave Cynthia Clinesmith, 15 votes, or 46.88 percent, Reagan Lambert, 14 votes, 43.75 percent, and Dennis R. Hoover, three votes, or 9.38 percent.

By Lew K. Cohn

Managing Editor

The Highlander

Horseshoe Bay City Council has called for a general election in November to elect a mayor and two council members and a special election the same day to decide whether the city will continue to collect sales tax for municipal street repair and maintenance.

The election will be held Nov. 7 and the first official day to file for a spot on the ballot is July 22. However, since that day is a Saturday and City Secretary Kerri Craig's office will not be open, the first day applications will be accepted will be Monday, July 24. The last day to file for election is Aug. 21.

Mayor Steve Jordan and council members Cynthia Clinesmith and Reagan Lambert hold the positions that are up for election this year. If only one candidate files for mayor and two candidates file for council positions, the city can cancel the general election at its Aug. 29 council meeting.

By Lew K. Cohn

Managing Editor

The Highlander

A new $40 million planned development that would include independent living and assisted living units is another step closer to becoming a reality after the Horseshoe Bay City Council voted Tuesday afternoon to grant rezoning and variance requests to the project developer, Mike Walsh of Lavaca Financial Corporation.

The Villages of Sienna Grove will be built on a 13.96-acre tract in The Parks at Horseshoe Bay off Ranch to Market Road 2147, not far from Texas 71 and across from Bay Country subdivision.

It will be comprised of three buildings — a three-story building of 71 independent living units, a two-story building of 46 assisted living units and a one-story building of 38 memory care units — in addition to up to 16 duplex “casitas.”

Horseshoe Bay City Council members will discuss the city's 2016 draft comprehensive report, hold a public hearing on it and consider adopting the report during the next council meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 18.

The meeting will be held at 3 p.m. in the City Council Chambers at 1 Community Drive, Horseshoe Bay.

The plan is the work of the Long Range Planning Advisory Committee, which was appointed by the council in 2015 to develop the plan in order to identify goals the city can work to achieve in order to meet its mission “to serve and protect our citizens while preserving our heritage and Planning Advisory for our future.”

The committee conducting nearly 100 interviews with local individuals to identify the challenges and opportunities facing Horseshoe Bay that needed to be addressed in the long-range plan. A community survey was also conducted with nearly 1,400 responses providing insight into what the community identified as priorities.

By Emily Hilley-Sierzchula

The Horseshoe Bay City Council at its meeting on Tuesday, March 15, took another step toward completion of its annexation process. Council members officially read the annexation ordinance and dealt with a few errors.

The council on Feb. 16 annexed just over 600 acres within its extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ), but staff members initially were not able to obtain a development agreement from all eligible landowners, said Stan Farmer, city manager.