Concerned Maverick County Taxpayers Present Petition to Call for $7.2 Million Bond Election
By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2023
An alliance of bi-partisan concerned Maverick County taxpayers presented a petition with at least five (5) percent of signatures from the Maverick County Voter Registration list to Maverick County Clerk Sara Montemayor and Maverick County Voter Registration Director Isamari Sanchez Villarreal on Tuesday, October 10, 2023, requesting the issuance of $7.2 million in bonds from the Texas Water Development Board be decided at an election of Maverick County voters.
The $7.2 million bonds are needed for Maverick County’s 30 percent contribution of a $23.2 million Texas Water Development Board project to expand and increase water and sewer services of Maverick County’s Water System located at the Radar Base.
Maverick County Commissioners Court planned to borrow these $7.2 Million by resolution instead of by an election of taxpayers.
Over 165 pages of signatures of the petition to call an election on the $7.2 million bonds are currently being reviewed by Maverick County Voter Registration Director Isamari Sanchez Villarreal, who is expected to make a decision on the validity of the signatures by next week.
If sufficient signatures were obtained, an election will be required. If not, Commissioners Court may approve the $7.2 million in bonds.
Maverick County Commissioners Court suspended approval of the Texas Water Development Board project pending confirmation of the petition calling for an election at their Tuesday, October 10, 2023 meeting.
