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MARKET TEAM GENERAL MANAGER Heather Demere EDITOR Eric Weilbacher REPORTERS Zara Flores, Amira Van Leeuwen GRAPHIC DESIGNER Melissa Johnson ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE Adrian Martinez METRO LEADERSHIP PUBLISHER Travis Baker MANAGING EDITOR Joe Warner COPY EDITOR Kasey Salisbury ART PRODUCTION MANAGER Rachal Elliott CONTACT US 16225 Impact Way, Ste. 1, Pflugerville, TX 78660 • 512-989-6808 CI CAREERS communityimpact.com/careers PRESS RELEASES sbknews@communityimpact.com ADVERTISING sbkads@communityimpact.com Learn more at communityimpact.com/advertising EMAIL NEWSLETTERS communityimpact.com/newsletter SUPPORT US Join your neighbors by giving to the CI Patron program. Funds support our journalistic mission to provide trusted, local news in your community. Learn more at communityimpact.com/cipatron ABOUT US Owners John and Jennifer Garrett launched Community Impact in 2005, and the company is still locally owned today. We have expanded to include hundreds of team members and have created our own software platform and printing facility. CI delivers 35+ localized editions across Texas to more than 2.5 million residential mailboxes.
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FROM HEATHER: In this edition, Reporter Zara Flores writes about firefighter response times in Hays County. There are potentially four more fire stations in the planning stages to accommodate the continued growth in the area. We also share Q&A’s for several local races up for election May 6. Early voting will begin April 24. Heather Demere, GENERAL MANAGER
CORRECTION: Volume 12, Issue 11 On Page 1, propositions for the San Marcos CISD May bond were listed in preliminary order before the Hays County sample ballot was finalized. Proposition A is the attendance credit election, and its ballot position had not been declared as of press time. Propositions B, C, and D make up the district’s bond package. On Page 25, the same ballot order was repeated. FROM ERIC: As property taxes rise, so do revenues for San Marcos CISD, and now the Texas Education Agency is seeking to redistribute some of it to other school districts in the state. Our second front-page story examines how this situation came about and what options—if any—voters have in the district. We also take a look at Dixco, a home organizing and consulting business that comes to you. Eric Weilbacher, EDITOR
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