Early voting starts Monday for May 4 city and school elections that include three recall votes and a nearly $60 million school bond.
That’s in Palo Pinto County.
Polling sites are set up in the Courthouse Annex in Mineral Wells, in the Strawn City Hall meeting room and in the board room at Graford ISD.
Hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, and then on April 30.
Elections Administrator Laura Watkins also has extended polling hours to 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Thursday and on April 29.
Voters can cast ballots at any of the voting sites under countywide voting.
Graford ISD voters will decide a $59.9 million bond for their growing district.
If approved by voters, the funds will build a new secondary campus with a career/college/military readiness facility.
The Graford measure also will buy school buses and build a storm shelter.
Graford ISD also has three open school board seats on the ballot, with four candidates in an at-large election.
The four hopefuls for three-year terms are incumbents Megan Ragle and Eddie Laney, with Tom Sikes and Ashley Stephens rounding out the ballot.
Millsap ISD
Four candidates are vying for two three-year-term spots on the Millsap ISD board: incumbent Jon Hartman and newcomers Brad Hall, Heather Hester and Todd Raymond.
Three are running for the remaining year of a three-year trustee term: incumbent Ross Beavers, who was appointed in August 2023 to fill a vacancy, Whittney Gilbert and Valerie Fowler.
Mineral Wells
Elections in Mineral Wells are highlighted by three recalls after customers of a recent water hike successfully gathered petitions to force three council members to defend their seats.
They are Jerrel Tomlin in Ward 1, the city’s south-central neighborhoods; Doyle Light in Ward 4, which is southwest Mineral Wells; and Ward 2 Councilman Carlos Maldonado, representing northeast Mineral Wells (but whose ward dips south to the airport).
Tomlin’s term is ending with this spring anyway, so voters will be asked whether to end his term the same day they decide whether to elect him to another one.
He has drawn an opponent in Bryan Sleeman, while Beth Henary Watson is challenged in Ward 3 is being challenged by D.B. Thomas.
That leaves the mayor’s race, where challenger Ron Davis hopes to unseat incumbent Regan Johnson.
In addition to those offices, Mineral Wells voters will be asked to decide seven amendments to their city charter.
Some of those are somewhat trivial, such as renaming the Corporation Court to Municipal Court, and clarifying that public initiatives, along with regular and recall elections, will hew to the state elections code rule putting those on uniform election days in May or November.
A couple of the charter amendments are more weighty, bringing the city’s purchasing and land-purchase/sale codes in line with state law.
Mineral Wells ISD
A trio of candidates seek to succeed Greg Malone, who is not seeking reelection in Place 1. They are Kit Sparks, Scott Aaron and Claudia Azua.
Incumbent Brandon Hons is not opposed in Place 2.
Peaster ISD
Two Peaster ISD incumbents are running for reelection against two challengers for at-large seats on the board.
Scott Johnson and Aric Kram are seeking consecutive terms, with Leanna Stafford and Laura Stewart also filing.
Strawn
Five candidates have filed for three at-large alderperson seats on the Strawn city ballot.
They are incumbents Brenda Orsini, Delane Abbott and Aron Johnson, plus new hopefuls Tommy Lackey and Phylicia Dixon.
School board and city council seats in Weatherford were cancelled because no races are contested.
Early voting polling sites in Parker County include the Courthouse Annex on Santa Fe Drive, Springtown Community Center, Peaster ISD Rock Gym, Aledo ISD Admin Building, Hudson Oaks Public Safety Building, Azle City Hall, Precinct 3 Barn in Brock and the Millsap Community Center.
Hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, and then on April 30. Extended polling hours to 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Thursday and on April 29.
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