Voters choose Irwin, Fulgham in BISD school board election

Joel Irwin

On Saturday Brownsboro ISD voters re-elected school board president Joel Irwin to a fourth term with 203 votes. Also elected to the board is newcomer Jeffrey Fulgham, Jr. with 284 votes.

A third candidate, Donny Wilson garnered 171 votes.

In the race for mayor of the city of Moore Station, Charles Anderson was elected with 60 votes. Maurice Lindsey, who had been serving as interim mayor received 25 votes. Of the four city council seats up for election, incumbents Carl McKenzie, Lee Johnson and Michael Earl were all reelected with 44, 55, and 41 votes respectively. Write-in candidate Ira L. Evans re- ceived 30 votes and will also serve on the city council. Finishing fifth was Zether L. Bell with 24 votes.

Coffee City citizens chose to re-elect Place 2 incumbent Betty Gail Davis with 34 votes. Her challenger Doris Harmon earned 20. Place 4 incumbent Henry Thirkill was re-elected with 19 votes. Also on the ballot were Shirley Walker with 14 votes, Tony Moore, 14 votes; and George Street with 7.

Henderson County voters approved the Texas constitutional amendment that would extend property tax relief to senior citizens and the disabled whose taxes are "frozen. " When the Legislature crafted its public school finance reform package last year, those tax bills at a fixed amount were left out. The amendment would grant about a one-third cut in the school tax rate for those homeowners, and their tax bills would be re-frozen at the lower level.

Jeffrey Fulgham