Local offices, state questions on Tuesday ballot

Lynn Walker, Wichita Falls Times Record News
Updated ·3 min read

Wichita County residents will go to the polls Tuesday to vote on 14 proposed amendments to the Texas Constitution. Wichita Falls voters will also pick a new mayor and vote in three City Council elections.

Wichita County residents vote Tuesday on local races and state questions.
Wichita County residents vote Tuesday on local races and state questions.

The Election Day voting locations are:

  • Martin Luther King Center, 1100 Smith St.

  • First Baptist Church at Sheppard, 2102 Puckett Rd.

  • Mercy Church, 3101 McNiel Ave.

  • Texas Highway Department, 1601 Southwest Pkwy.

  • Region 9 Education Center, 301 Loop 11.

  • Faith Lodge 1158, 3503 Kemp Blvd.

  • Tenth & Broad Church of Christ, 1319 10th St.

  • Commissioner Pct. 2 Bldg., 102 W. College St., Burkburnett

  • Wichita County Tax Office, 400 N. Wall St., Iowa Park

  • Commissioner Pct. 4 Bldg., 2023 SH 25N, Electra

Here are the local races in Wichita Falls:

Candidates for Wichita Falls mayor are:

  • Carol Murray

  • Beverly Taylor Ellis

  • Tim Short

  • Scott Poenitzsch (a write-in candidate)

Candidates for City Council District 3 are:

  • Cathy Dodson

  • Jeff Browning

Candidates for City Council District 4 are:

  • Mike Battaglino

  • Kevin Hunter

  • Samuel Pak

Candidates for City Council District 5 are:

  • Steve Jackson

  • Tom Taylor

All registered Wichita Falls voters may vote for mayor but may only vote for city council candidates for the district where they live. In the event no candidate gets 50 percent of the vote in a race, a runoff election will be held Dec. 9.

Here are the statewide propositions that all registered Texas voters may vote in:

  • Prop. 1 - to protect right to engage in farm, ranch, timber production, horticulture, or wildlife management practices on real property that the person owns or leases.

  • Prop. 2 - allows the governing body of a county or municipality to exempt from property taxation appraised value of real property used to operate a child-care facility.

  • Prop. 3 - prohibits the legislature from imposing a tax based on the wealth or net worth of an individual or family.

  • Prop. 4 - would authorize the Legislature to temporarily limit the maximum appraised value of real property for property tax purposes and increase the mandatory homestead exemption for school district property taxation from $40,000 to $100,000.

  • Prop. 5 - to redesignate the national research university fund as the Texas University Fund (TUF), and to appropriate funds from the economic stabilization fund to the TUF.

  • Prop. 6 – would create the Texas water fund to assist in financing water projects in the state.

  • Prop. 7 - to establish the Texas energy fund to provide loans and grants to finance or incentivize the construction, maintenance, modernization, and operation of electric generating facilities.

  • Prop. 8 - to create the broadband infrastructure fund for the expansion of broadband and telecommunications services.

  • Prop. 9 - to provide a cost-of-living adjustment to eligible annuitants of the Teacher Retirement System of Texas.

  • Prop. 10 - to exempt from property taxation tangible personal property held by a medical or biomedical manufacturer.

  • Prop. 11 - with regard to conservation and reclamation districts in El Paso County.

  • Prop. 12 - to abolish the office of County Treasurer in Galveston County.

  • Prop. 13 - to increase the mandatory retirement age for state justices and judges.

  • Prop. 14 - to establish the centennial parks conservation fund for the creation and improvement of state parks.

Polls are open 7 a.m. until 7 p.m.

This article originally appeared on Wichita Falls Times Record News: Local offices, state questions on Tuesday ballot