For the first time in more than 20 years, there will be an election for seats on the Lower Brushy Creek Water Control & Improvement District board.
Three positions on the five-person board are on the May 2 ballot.
Four candidates have filed to run: incumbents Allen Ray David and Laine Holman, as well as Mitchell Drummond and Mark Baudek.
“This is a good thing,” said board President Ed Komandosky. “We’ve never had this kind of interest in our mission.”
David, of Thrall, has served on the board since May 2022. He also has been a Thrall Independent School District trustee and is in the farm-equipment business.
Holman, of Taylor, has served with the improvement district since February 2022.
He has worked in public accounting and real estate.
Drummond, of Taylor, served two terms on the Taylor City Council and helped launch the Boys and Girls Club of East Williamson
County.
Baudek manages a farm near Thrall and is a graduate of Texas State University. He served in the Army as a military policeman and works in the service business.
Scott Ging, a Coupland resident and a board member since February 2015, chose not to seek reelection.
The top three vote-earners from the four candidates will serve four-year terms beginning in May.
Early voting lasts through April 28.
According to its website, “The Lower Brushy Creek WCID operates and maintains 23 flood-control structures in eastern Williamson
and western Milam counties.
These earthen dams were designed and constructed in the early 1960s by the (U.S. Department of Agriculture) Natural Resources
Conservation Service.”
For more including meeting times, visit lowerbrushycreekwcid.org.
