A current member of the Budafest committee apologized to the Buda City Council earlier this month for not coming forth with answers to questions regarding the event’s cancellation in 2016. Bert Bronaugh, Budafest committee member, spoke on his own behalf and not on behalf of the committee Feb. 17 an...

The creation of an additional Travis County emergency service district that will serve the outer portions of Buda’s extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ) got the green light from city council the Feb. 7. The agenda item for ESD 15 originally was presented to council members at the Jan. 17 meeting. The...

The design for a 115,000 square foot, $34 million elementary school that’s part of a $189 million propostion in the Hays CISD bond was forwarded by board trustees Monday. By a 6-1 vote, trustees approved design documents for Elementary School (ES) 14, to be located on High Road in the eastern part o...

Hays CISD Board of Trustees Monday approved a targeted improvement plan that’s meant to help address areas of low performance. After a report showed bilingual/ESL and special education students were scoring lower on standardized tests than their peers, the district began drafting a TIP to better ser...

Buda city leaders earlier this month expressed anxieties over a staff report on the possibility of adopting a tax freeze for senior citizens. The study was performed in response to an agenda item request from council member George Haehn. Finance Director June Ellis relayed the pros and cons associat...

etting a chicken fried steak during the lunch hour at his favorite Kyle area restaurant is the norm for San Marcos resident Jesse Gomez.  On Thursday, however, Garza was surprised to discover the unfamiliar scene of no cars in the drive-thru or the parking lot. Such was the scene at several area bus...

Buda resident Melissa McCrary realized how iconic Budafest was to the community when she moved to the area eight years ago. Last year, McCrary finally got the chance to participate when she applied for a craft vendor booth. But her excitement turned sour after she discovered vendors wouldn’t receive...

An overhaul of Buda’s Unified Development Code (UDC), according to Assistant City Manager Chance Sparks, is “long overdue” could be implemented later this year.  Sparks introduced the agenda item to council members in late 2016 and said Buda’s current UDC, which was adopted in 2002, did not reflect ...

The decision on whether Buda would reintroduce fluoride into the city’s water system will now rest in the hands of voters. In a stunning turn of events, the Buda City Council voted 5-2 Tuesday to add the fluoride issue to the Nov. 17 election ballot. Council members Wiley Hopkins and Eileen Altmille...

With a handful of projects already underway, several items within Buda’s $55 million bond, which was passed by voters in 2014, are seeing various degrees of construction,   with others nearing completion. Prop 1 Municipal Facility Except for the mechanic, electrical and plumbing design plans, the ne...