The May 6 election was a county wide, joint election with all Colorado County school districts holding a board election and the City of Eagle Lake holding an Alderman election.
The Colorado County Elections Office has released the official election results. These results vary slightly from what was initially reported in the unofficial results on Election Day. The overall outcome of the election remains the same.
Each school board as well as the Eagle Lake City Council held special meetings on Monday, May 15 to canvass the election results.
LOCAL CITY/SCHOOL ELECTIONS
School Board Trustee Position 6 Rice CISD Chriss Schiurring – 407
School Board Trustee Position 7 Rice CISD (One seat) Sandra Dee Flowers – 146 Jenny Rodgers – 321 Alexandra Schilling – 47
School Board Trustee Place 1 Weimar ISD (One seat) Leah Newby – 69 Jim Sanders – 176
School Board Trustee Place 2 Weimar ISD Brian Christen – 199
School Board Trustee Columbus ISD (Two seats) Michele Eden – 165 Roman Footnick – 141 Robert Russell – 186
Alderman City of Eagle Lake (Three seats) Rene Cooper – 132 Jim Wood – 179 GayeLynn Thomas – 118 Chris D. Parker – 136