Guadalupe County MUD No. 16: operating tax and bonds
Guadalupe County MUD No. 16’s order gives its resident voters six propositions. Proposition A asks them to confirm the district’s creation. Proposition B seeks maintenance-and-operations tax authority of up to $1.20 per $100 of taxable value. Proposition C seeks up to $452.915 million in water, wastewater and drainage bonds, and Proposition D seeks up to $132.275 million in road bonds. Proposition E seeks up to $679.3725 million in system refunding bonds; Proposition F seeks up to $198.4125 million in road refunding bonds. The order also provides for the election of permanent directors. The MUD No. 16 election order sets out the separate questions and their limits.
Liberty Trails MUD: separate district, separate limits
Liberty Trails MUD presents the same categories of questions to its own resident voters, with different ceilings. Proposition A asks them to confirm the district’s creation, and Proposition B seeks maintenance-and-operations tax authority of up to $1 per $100 of taxable value. Proposition C seeks up to $70.65 million in water, wastewater and drainage bonds; Proposition D seeks up to $15.52 million in road bonds. The refunding questions are up to $105.975 million for the system under Proposition E and $23.28 million for roads under Proposition F. Permanent directors are also on the district ballot. The Liberty Trails election order provides the ballot language and polling information.
The MUD orders ask voters to authorize debt and operations-tax ceilings; the listed amounts are proposed maximum powers rather than a record of bonds sold. Their bond questions say taxes would repay bond debt. The refunding propositions are separate from the original-bond propositions, so adding all six dollar figures together would misstate what a single bond question asks voters to decide.
Voting dates and the next record
The county’s early-voting schedule lists voting from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. October 19–23, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. October 24, noon to 6 p.m. October 25, and 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. October 26–30. Its main early-voting site is 3251 N. State Highway 123 in Seguin. The schedule lists October 23 at the close of business as the deadline for receipt of a mail-ballot application. The two MUD orders set election-day voting for 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. November 3. Check the county voting schedule for locations and hours, then use its elections page to find the sample ballot tied to your registered address.
After voting, the next public records to check are the county’s election results and each jurisdiction’s canvass. Those records will establish which propositions passed before any later rate-setting or bond-issuance decision is reported.
