In the midst of a budget crunch, Buda councilmembers directed city staff at Tuesday night’s council meeting to stop all capital purchases. Councilmembers are eyeing a tax hike of up to 6.3 cents and coping with waning income from sales tax, which supplies almost half of city revenue. “We had two or three years of [...]
Pedernales Electric Cooperative (PEC) will cut off its no-bid contract with Cattleman’s National Bank, General Manager Juan Garza announced this week. Last year PEC deposited more than $238.3 million with Cattleman’s, representing nearly 50 percent of the co-op’s annual revenue. Last week, top co-op officials learned that $565,000 has been sitting at Cattleman’s in a [...]
It was a classic summertime scene – a dozen kids gleefully splashing and shrieking in the water under a hot August sun. It looked like fun, but there was serious business at hand. In the community pool at Sunset Ridge, a modest but well-maintained mobile home subdivision on Kyle’s east side, the local YMCA was [...]
Kyle area resident Ricardo Carrillo, 18, is expected to plead guilty Aug. 21 to charges stemming from the alleged drugging and rape of two juvenile girls in November, court officials said. Calls for comment to numbers believed to be Carrillo’s and a message to Carillo through his attorney, Bill Rugeley, remain unreturned. “We’re anticipating that [...]
Buda realtor Barbara Pecuch has filed suit against the city of Buda, alleging that construction of Stagecoach Park has encroached onto her property easement next door. The city’s former engineering firm, PBS&J, did not notice that the 380 foot long easement existed during planning of the 52-acre park between Main Street and Onion Creek. Last [...]
Aquifer District to hold meeting in Buda As the threat of Critical Stage Drought looms over the heads of 60,000 water users in this part of Hays and Travis counties, the Barton Springs Edwards Aquifer Conservation District (BSEACD) will hold a drought information session.The meeting will take place on Wednesday, Aug. 13 at Buda City [...]
Just as national politics and the weather are heating up, local politics in Kyle is turning the corner into the home stretch. On Tuesday, just a few scant days from Saturday’s municipal election to fill Place 5 on the Kyle City Council, only 205 voters had cast a ballot. Up for electoral decision is who [...]
Staff Reports As crime in recent months has been headlining area papers and sharing the community spotlight with transportation woes, the Kyle Police Department will be asking residents to help out. On Monday, Aug. 18, the Kyle Police Department (KPD) will debut its “Community Crime Watch” program designed to open lines of communication between the [...]
Everyone wants to go green these days. It’s the trigger word that has businesses and individuals alike fretting, thinking, promoting. The basic idea behind “green,” besides the obvious disallowance of release of chemicals into the environment or use of chemicals in our everyday life, is the reduction of the “carbon footprint.” The carbon footprint is [...]
Good speech In response to the city manager’s report on water quality in Kyle: I would bet you use bottled water at home. Good speech though. R.P. King Kyle Fatal attraction Kyle’s mayor and city council are spending millions of taxpayers’ dollars like there’s no tomorrow. City staff is bloating with massive new hires and [...]
