Wednesday, Jan. 16 is the first day to file for the May 4, city and school board elections in Rockdale and there will be a number of terms expiring this spring.
City voters will elect a mayor and two council members and there will also be amendments to the city charter going to the public.
Three Rockdale ISD school board members will see terms expire in 2019.
There’s no Rockdale Hospital District election this spring.
That’s not because medical facilities have closed. Hospital board terms are arranged so there aren’t vacancies every year.
CITY—Much of the May 4 action will be on the city ballot where the term of Mayor John King is expiring.
King is completing his second term. He was first elected in a contested three-way 2013 election and was re-elected without opposition in 2016.
Dalley is completing her third term.
She was first elected in 2010 and re-elected in 2013 and 2016. All three elections were contested.
Bland is completing his second term. He was elected in a 2013 contested race and re-elected without opposition in 2016.
He is currently mayor pro tem.
Filing is at City Hall. weekdays from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 1:30 to 4:30 p.m.
Filing deadline is 5 p.m. Feb. 15.
CHARTER—City Secretary Terry Blanchard said there will also be some amendments to the Rock-dale City Charter for voters to consider May 4.
“Attorneys are still working on the exact wording,” she said.
Voters okayed the new city charter in 2016.
SCHOOL BOARD—
Terms of three Rockdale ISD school board members are expiring in 2019.
They are Michelle Lehmkuhl (Place 3), Charles Miles (Place 4) and Wenda Dyer (Place 5).
Lehmkuhl, a former school board president, is completing her fourth term.
She was first elected in a 2007 contested election and re-elected without opposition in 2010, 2013 and 2016.
Dyer is completing her third term. She won uncontested elections in 2010, 2013 and 2016.
Miles’ Place 4 position is a special case.
He was appointed in 2017 to fill the remainder of Lee Jenkins’s term after Jenkins’s resignati0n earlier that year.
That meant he had to run “on his own” for the remainder of the term last year.
He was unopposed.
That Place 4 term comes up again in the regular rotation of school board positions this year. So it will be on the ballot May 4.
School board candidates may file weekdays, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. through Feb. 15 at the RISD Central Administration Building, 520 West Davilla.
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