After a month and a half of planning and securing election funding on Tuesday from Travis County Commissioner’s Court,the temporary board for the Southwestern Travis County Groundwater Conservation District unexpectedly voted in a unanimous decision Friday afternoon to cancel the district’s confirmation and board elections.
“The county offered to give us a loan for the election but we had no idea what the loan terms were, and really don’t have the data to be able to know when we would be able to pay the loan back,” Tricia Davis, the conservation district’s vice president, told Community Impact Newspaper March 3. “[The board of directors] had very serious reservation of borrowing money with no means to pay it back.” Read more from Community Impact