Government
BY COLBY FARR
McKinney leaders delay decision on adding council districts
City officials will hold off on pursuing the addition of new members to McKinney City Council until the next state legislative session at least. Council members agreed to wait and see if the Texas Legislature will address a statute that requires election of the entire governing body after new district lines are drawn. A measure to address this failed in the 2025 legis- lative session, however Gunnar Seaquist, attorney with Bickerstaff Heath Delgado Acosta, said he expects some sort of solution in a future session. “I think that this is going to be just so disruptive that the political will will build,” he said. In a nutshell In a presentation during a special meeting held July 22, Seaquist broke down the current legislative framework for drawing new council districts. The City Council is currently composed of seven members including the mayor and two council posi- tions elected at large. The remaining four members
are elected to represent a single district. Seaquist worked with the city’s 2024 Charter Commission, which recommended further analysis of changing the council’s composition ahead of the 2030 census. The charter commission’s discussions focused on increasing the number of single-member districts to six while maintaining the city’s cur- rent hybrid system, Seaquist said. To change the composition of the City Council, the charter has to be amended through an election. The legislature enacted House Bill 3613 in 2023, which determined that all members of a municipal- ity’s governing body must run for election after it’s redistricted. The city may have to redistrict anyway after results from the 2030 Census are released by the U.S. Census Bureau, Seaquist said. Council member Patrick Cloutier said “it seems the responsible answer” is to wait for the next legis- lative session and table the discussion for a couple of years, with several council members agreeing.
McKinney City Council districts District 1 District 2 District 3 District 4
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121
Rick Franklin
380
Geré Feltus
Justin Beller
Patrick Cloutier
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At Large 1 Ernest Lynch
At Large 2 Michael Jones
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