Updated Nov. 6 at 11:37 a.m. CST
Updated 10:25 p.m. CST
According to unofficial results, Keith Brainard was elected to fill the Georgetown City Council District 2 seat with 53.5 percent of the votes with 60 of 60 vote centers reporting.
Brainard, who faced opponent Dr. Bonnie Stump for the seat, previously served on the council from 2007–10.
"I was glad to see our message of fiscal conservatism resonating with voters," Brainard said. "Georgetown is growing, and I'm looking forward to participating in policies that will facilitate this growth and help ensure that our growth is high quality and the kind of growth that we want."
Unofficial results also show incumbent Gary A. Goodman, Robert E. Johnson Jr. and James Pletcher winning the three seats on the Chisholm Trail SUD board of directors with all of Bell, Burnet and Williamson counties reporting.
At approximately 10:45 p.m. Nov. 5, Williamson County officials reported technical issues affecting 157 votes, according to a Facebook post.
Posted 8 p.m. CST
Voters in Georgetown City Council's District 2 and the Chisholm Trail Special Utility District went to the polls Nov. 5 to elect new representatives.
City Council District 2
Early voting results show Keith Brainard with 51.99 percent of the votes, leading the race against Dr. Bonnie Stump to fill the District 2 seat, which was vacated in July when Troy Hellmann resigned.
Hellmann announced his plans to resign in June after his family built a house in District 5. City Council members are elected to single-member districts and must reside in within the district they are elected to represent.
Brainard, who previously served on City Council from 2007–10, said his top three priorities were managing growth and development, challenging the rising city tax rates and spending, and improving traffic with more and better roads.
Brainard is the research director for the National Association of State Retirement Administrators and has lived in Georgetown since 2000.
Stump, who first moved to Georgetown in 1971 and moved her medical practice to Georgetown in 1998, said her top priorities included managing Georgetown's growth, ensuring an adequate water supply and reducing the city's reliance on property taxes.
She owns a rental property business, builds energy-efficient homes with her husband and serves on the Georgetown Rail Equipment Co. board of directors.
Council members are elected to three-year terms.
Chisholm Trail SUD
Early voting results show incumbent Gary A. Goodman, Robert E. Johnson Jr. and James Pletcher leading the race for three seats on the Chisholm Trail SUD board of directors.
The board of directors includes seven members elected at-large in staggered, three-year terms.
In August the board approved a merger with the city of Georgetown water utility. City Council approved the contract at its Sept. 24 meeting.
Chisholm Trail SUD board member Mike Sweeney said if the merger is not approved by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality in a year, the board would have to approve the contract again.
The district serves more than 7,000 customers in Bell, Burnet and Williamson counties. A majority of the customer base is within the city of Georgetown's extraterritorial jurisdiction, which includes the unincorporated areas up to 3.5 miles beyond the city limits