New Braunfels City Council members on Monday unanimously voted to discontinue requiring the use of face coverings by the public while at city facilities.
New Braunfels City Council members on Monday are expected to discuss and consider possible action whether to continue requiring the use of face coverings by the public while at city facilities.
Council members last month elected to operate all city facilities at 100% occupancy but require the use of face coverings by the public when social
distancing is not feasible.
That decision came after Texas Gov. Greg Abbottâs executive order rescinding statewide face covering and occupancy requirements went into effect.Â
Abbottâs order allows businesses and other establishments to decide whether to require their employees and customers to follow additional hygiene measures, including the wearing of a face covering. City facilities fall under the category of âother establishments.â
A 19-year-old student garnered the highest number of grass-roots donations, while two political action committees and prominent contributors are fueling candidates in New Braunfels City Council races and school district trustees elections, according to public records.
A total of 14 candidates are on the May 1 ballot, seeking two positions each on the New Braunfels City Council and New Braunfels and Comal independent school districts â the most since 11 vied for council and Comal ISD slots in 2003 and before New Braunfels ISD shifted to spring elections in 2008.
Brittany Soto, a college student seeking to unseat the incumbent Comal ISD board treasurer, totaled 29 donations, while council hopefuls Harry Bowers and Joy Harvey raised and spent the most in the Herald-Zeitungâs review of donations, loans and campaign expenditures filed last week and covering the period ending March 22.
New Braunfels businessman and restaurant owner Ron Snider, known for his work rebuilding and revitalizing downtown, died on Friday. He was 70.
Snider was born on Sept. 28, 1950. According to a previous Herald-Zeitung story, he grew up in inner-city Indianapolis, Ind., and said he traced his love of old buildings to those years.
Describing himself as a âserial entrepreneur,â Snider had worked to rebuild downtown New Braunfels since he came to town in 1982 when he began a business building wooden playground equipment. He opened the New Braunfels Smoker Company in 1989, a barbecue manufacturing company, which he sold in 1997.
It wasnât long after Snider settled in New Braunfels that he and his partner, Darrell Sollberger, began buying buildings downtown.
Thursday, April 1, is the final day to register to vote in the May 1 elections, when voters will head to the polls to select two New Braunfels City Council members, two school board trustees in the New Braunfels Independent School District and two Comal ISD trustees positions.
All seats are for three-year terms. New Braunfels residents will decide 18 proposed amendments to the city’s charter. Those seeking to register can submit completed applications from the Texas Secretary of State website, www.votetexas.gov, by Thursday.
As of Wednesday, the county had an estimated 117,351 registered voters. The last day to submit applications for ballots by mail is Tuesday, April 20; early voting begins Monday, April 19 and ends Tuesday, April 27.Â