Government
BY PARKS KUGLE
Voter registration contract continues
Hill Country Village meetings adjusted In an effort to make attending meetings easier for residents, Hill Country Village City Council voted unanimously to adjust the City Council meeting schedule during its Sept. 19 meeting. The gist For fiscal year 2024-25, Hill Country Village City Council will hold meetings at 5:30 p.m. every third Thursday of the month, with July’s meeting being held on the fourth Thursday of the month. Currently, the City Council holds regular meetings at 5 p.m. every third Thursday. City officials said residents have criticized the 5 p.m. meeting time because they cannot get out of work in time to attend, and that moving the meeting time back will allow more citizens to attend regularly.
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The Sept. 3 decision by the Bexar County Commissioners Court to use a third-party vendor to mail voter registration forms to potential voters was not stopped before the registration deadline, but litigation surrounding the effort continues. Long story short The $392,700 contract with Civic Government Solutions LLC includes the ability to print and mail state voter registration forms to unregistered voters in Bexar County. The company uses its own data- base pulled from various sources of unregistered potential voters. The decision was met with a lawsuit from Texas State Attorney General Ken Paxton, which sought an emergency order to block the program. The suit alleged that the plan would violate the law. “Bexar County’s nonpartisan effort to provide voter registration applications to targeted eligible
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citizens is within the authority of the county and consistent with state law,” Bexar County Judge Peter Sakai said in a statement. On Sept. 16, State District Judge Antonia Arteaga denied Paxton’s request to block the plan and said the request was moot because the forms had already been mailed out. After the decision, the Texas State Attorney General’s office filed an appeal challenging the dismissal.
Shavano Park greenlights new development district Shavano Park City Council unanimously voted to approve the rezoning and creation of the 1604 Public Improvement District on Sept. 16. The overview Prior to the creation of the 1604 Public Improve-
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for the construction of residences as well. Representatives of the developer Bitterblue said that it will take at least 3 years from groundbreak- ing to sell 30% of the properties. The 1604 PID will include 5.9 acres of retail space, 3.2 acres for a hotel, 5.5 acres of residential property and 3.6 acres of recreational space. Design elements also include a dog park, tandem pickleball courts and other amenities.
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ment District, council unanimously voted to rezone the 22-acre lot from a B-2 business and office district to a mixed-use district, which allows
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