In Saturday's runoff race, voters will select their first-ever slate of elected members to the Bexar Appraisal District's board of directors.
In the runoff election for Place 2, Erika Hizel, who runs an advocacy group for small landlords was leading realtor Stephen Spears 64.9% to 35.1% with 27 out of 41 vote centers counted.
For Place 3, Robert Bruce, the founder of Boerne Stage Airfield and a leader in several state and national conservative groups, was leading the race with 52.9%. G.L. “Larry” Lamborn, a retired CIA and Army Reserve officer, was taking 47.2%.The newly elected members will be sworn in at a board meeting in July.Going forward they’ll be elected on the November ballot, but the state triggered an unusual countywide municipal election to elect the first members ahead of property tax season.
Only 10,894 early and absentee ballots were cast in the runoff, of Bexar County’s 1.3 million voters. Of those, 163 ballots were left blank. The new members will serve on a board with other members appointed by the various taxing agencies, responsible for hiring the county’s chief appraiser and setting the agency’s budget.
The tax law also gave appraisal boards new authority to oversee their counties’ appraisal review boards, whose members are paid to hear and decide challenges to property tax valuations.Andrea Drusch writes about local government for the San Antonio Report. She's covered politics in Washington, D.C., and Texas for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, National Journal and Politico.
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