Fort Bend Voters Turn Out For Road Bond, School Bonds Issues

SUGAR LAND, TX — Fort Bend County voters are casting their their ballots on several important issues on Tuesday, including a key bond election for road and mobility improvements, city charter elections in Missouri City and a bond election for Katy ISD and Stafford Municipal School District.

Polls opened at 7 a.m., and will close at 7 p.m.

Some of the issues Fort Bend Voters will consider include:

Fort Bend County: The issuance of Fort Bend County general obligation bonds for roads and bridges in the amount of $218.58 million and the levy of taxes, in payment of the bonds

Stafford MSD: Bond: The issuance of $62, million bonds by the city of Stafford, Texas, for and on behalf of the stafford municipal school district for the construction, acquisition and equipment of school buildings in the district, including the repair, renovation and expansion of school buildings in the district and the purchase of technology, the purchase of necessary sites for school buildings and the purchase of new school buses and the levying of an ad valorem tax in payment thereof

Katy ISD: Bond: The issuance of $609.2 million school building bonds for the construction, acquisition and equipment of school buildings in the district (including the rehabilitation, renovation, expansion and improvement thereof), the purchase of the necessary sites for school buildings, and the purchase of new school buses and levying of the tax in payment thereof

Missouri City:

Council Pos. A: Yolanda Ford or Sonja Giddings

Missouri City Charter Amendments:

Charter Amendment Prop A: Article III of the Charter of the City of Missouri City be amended to clarify that the mayor pro tem of the city council may be elected at the first regular city council meeting following a runoff election.

Charter Amendment Prop B: Article IV of the Charter of the City of Missouri City be amended to remove the requirement that the city manager must be bonded at city expense in an amount not less than twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000).

Charter Amendment C: Article IV of the Charter of the City of Missouri City be amended to provide that the city manager may appoint, suspend, and remove department directors and assistant city managers without the concurrence of the city council

Charter Amendment D: Article IV of the Charter of the City of Missouri City be amended to allow the city manager to establish, combine, discontinue, redesignate, or combine city departments.

Charter Amendment E: Article VI of the Charter of the City of Missouri City be amended to make the Charter consistent with City of Missouri City Resolution No. R-16-32, adopted on October 17, 2016, changing the City's election date from May to November.

Charter Amendent F: Article VII of the Charter of the City of Missouri City be amended to change the name of the city's finance department to the "financial services department"

Charter Amendment G: Article IX of the Charter of the City of Missouri City be amended to change the City of Missouri City's fiscal year from July 1 through June 30 to October 1 through September 30

STATE OF TEXAS PROPOSITIONS
PROPOSITION 1
"The constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to provide for an exemption from ad valorem taxation of part of the market value of the residence homestead of a partially disabled veteran or the surviving spouse of a partially disabled veteran if the residence homestead was donated to the disabled veteran by a charitable organization for less than the market value of the residence homestead and harmonizing certain related provisions of the Texas Constitution."

PROPOSITION 2
"The constitutional amendment to establish a lower amount for expenses that can be charged to a borrower and removing certain financing expense limitations for a home equity loan, establishing certain authorized lenders to make a home equity loan, changing certain options for the refinancing of home equity loans, changing the threshold for an advance of a home equity line of credit, and allowing home equity loans on agricultural homesteads."

PROPOSITION 3
"The constitutional amendment limiting the service of certain officeholders appointed by the governor and confirmed by the senate after the expiration of the person's term of office."

PROPOSITION 4
"The constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to require a court to provide notice to the attorney general of a challenge to the constitutionality of a state statute and authorizing the legislature to prescribe a waiting period before the court may enter a judgment holding the statute unconstitutional."
PROPOSITION 5
"The constitutional amendment on professional sports team charitable foundations conducting charitable raffles."

PROPOSITION 6
"The constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to provide for an exemption from ad valorem taxation of all or part of the market value of the residence homestead of the surviving spouse of a first responder who is killed or fatally injured in the line of duty."
PROPOSITION 7
"The constitutional amendment relating to legislative authority to permit credit unions and other financial institutions to award prizes by lot to promote savings."

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