Floyd County Clerk Ginger Morgan and assistant clerk Marivel Esquivel test Floyd County's election machines ahead of primary early voting on February 11, 2022 at the Floyd County Courthouse. (Ryan Crowe/FCR)
FLOYD COUNTY – Voters in Floydada and Lockney can now go to the polls to vote early in their cities’ respective May 7 municipal elections, and all Floyd County voters can take part in two proposed Texas state constitutional amendments.
A mayor’s race is shaping up in Lockney after current Mayor Michael DeLeon decided not to seek reelection. Current Mayor Pro-Tem Aaron Wilson and Lockney resident Ricardo Basaldua are the two candidates up for the job.
In Floydada, residents are voting yes or no to extend the current city sales and use tax for street maintenance. The current quarter of a cent per $100 tax is set to expire in June. The tax is collected from sales within the city for road painting and striping, pothole repair and street cleaning.
As mentioned, the state constitutional amendments on the ballot both deal with homestead exemptions for property taxes the state collects and can be read in full below.
Early Voting will take place at the Floyd County Courthouse Annex and Lockney’s First United Methodist Church. Early voting hours begin each day at 8:00 a.m.
The full list of elections, including seats that did not require a race due to no opposition, are listed below.
CITY OF LOCKNEY:
Mayor: Aaron Wilson, Ricardo Basaldua
District 4: Dart Carthel
District 5: Steve Wright
*This will be final election of specific voting districts for Lockney’s city council. Last year the council voted to move to all at-large seats*
CITY OF FLOYDADA:
At Large: Gabriel de la Fuente
At Large: Bryan Martin
District 1: Bettye King
District 4: Gail DuBois
Sales and Use Tax
FLOYDADA COLLEGIATE ISD:
At Large: Eric Smith
District 4: Beverly Collins
District 5: Kay Brotherton
LOCKNEY ISD:
At Large: Kayla Sherman
Precinct 3: Heath Rexrode
Precinct 4: Billy Lefevre
TEXAS CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS:
Proposition 1
“The constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to provide for the reduction of the amount of a limitation on the total amount of ad valorem taxes that may be imposed for general elementary and secondary public school purposes on the residence homestead of a person who is elderly or disabled to reflect any statutory reduction from the preceding tax year in the maximum compressed rate of the maintenance and operations taxes imposed for those purposes on the homestead.”
Proposition 2
“The constitutional amendment increasing the amount of the residence homestead exemption from ad valorem taxation for public school purposes from $25,000 to $40,000.”
