Assistant Floyd County Clerk Marivel Esquivel tests voting equipment on February 11, 2022 at the Floyd County Courthouse. (Ryan Crowe/FCR)
FLOYD COUNTY – Less than 200 Floyd County residents went to the poll in early voting ahead of Saturday’s state and municipal election.
The majority of early ballots were cast in Lockney, where a mayor’s race is taking place between resident Ricardo Basaldua and current Mayor Pro-Tem Aaron Wilson.
While 131 of the 174 early votes were cast in Lockney, Floyd County Clerk Ginger Morgan points out that doesn’t necessarily mean they have all been in the mayor’s race. Any registered voter can vote at either Floyd County polling location.
Both locations, Lockney’s First United Methodist Church and the Floyd County Courthouse Annex, will open Saturday at 7:00 a.m. and remain open until 7:00 p.m.
Floydada voters have the city’s Sales & Use Tax to weigh in on. 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.
All voters will have their chance to say Yes or No on two state constitutional amendments that deal with homestead exemptions for property taxes.
The full list of elections, including seats that did not require a race due to a lack of 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.”
