Alderman Joel Ortega’s Absence Ignored
Alderman Joel Ortega was absent from half of the City Council meetings in 2015. Texas law says that 3 consecutive absences of an Alderman makes…
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BJ Gillespie Changes Position on Trash After Election
On November 12, 2015 the City Council agreed to a contract with Tiger Sanitation for 5 years of exclusive rights to provide trash collection service…
History Repeats Itself After Ignoring Past Mistakes
History repeated itself in the 2015 general election when 4 City Council positions were filled without there ever being an election and without there ever…
Earnest Gay Sets Bad Precedent In Exchange for Saving Money
The following transcript is taken from the October 8, 2015 meeting. That meeting included an opportunity for citizens to tell the City Council what they…
Marshal’s Wife Suggests Burning Down Houses
On October 8, 2015, the City Council discussed how to address properties within the city that have overgrown weeds, disabled vehicles, and “other unsightly or…
Council Chooses City Wide Trash Company
On October 8, 2015, the City Council decided to contract with a trash collection service and to allow only that service to collect trash within…
Candidate for Office Becomes Violent at City Council Meeting
BJ Gillespie, who recently submitted an application to run for a City Council position, has developed the habit of attacking people verbally on social media…
September 8, 2015 Budget Hearing
The City Council held a second Budget Hearing on September 8, 2015. The first Hearing was held on September 2nd, but the Council postponed a…
November 2015 Election Cancelled
The City Council has cancelled the election planned for November 3, 2015. The election was for 3 different Alderman positions and a replacement for the…
Budget Hearing Ends Without Acceptance
The City Council held a Budget Hearing on September 2, 2015. The location of the meeting was planned as the meeting hall at the Braunig…
City Council Holds Illegal Meeting; Violates State Law
The Sandy Oaks City Council violated the Texas Open Meetings Act on September 2, 2015 when it held a meeting without announcing its location to…
Budget Analysis: Pay Twice As Much For Less Services
For the first time since September of 2014, the City Council is going to look at a budget for the city. The only reason they’re…
Who Controls the City Marshal?
A dramatic episode has erupted on social media regarding an invitation to the Sandy Oaks City Marshal, Jesse Gutierrez. The invitation was sent by Catherine…
2015 Budget Hearing Announced
The Sandy Oaks City Council has announced a budget hearing for September 2, 2015. The hearing will start at 6:30 pm and will be held…
Who Owns The Roads: City Council Tasks Attorney
After being in office for over a year, the members of the Sandy Oaks City Council admitted on August 13, 2015 that they still don’t…
City Council holds meeting 8 miles outside of city limits
On August 13, 2015, the Sandy Oaks City Council held a meeting 8 miles outside of the city limits. The location of the meeting was…
The Mess We’re In
The current state of the Waterwood community is worse than it was a little over a year ago when the area incorporated into a city.…
Without Authority, City Council Plays Favoritism With Businesses
The Sandy Oaks City Council has developed a habit of acting as if it has the authority to approve or disapprove what businesses do. The…
Titan Factory Direct Caught Posting Signs
Since the transfer of maintenance responsibilities transferred from the Waterwood Development Company to the WPPOA, the Waterwood community has had an increase in signs that…
Dollar General Now Open
At the corner of Priest and Mathis, the newly built Dollar General opened at 7:30pm July 15, 2015. The convenience store is the first business…
Ball Wants Property Tax to Cover Trash Collection
Alderman Micki Ball stated on July 9, 2015 that city wide trash collection should be paid for with property taxes. She said trash collection would…
Community Development Block Grant Update
At a meeting on June 11, 2016 the City Council received an update on the CDBG process by Alma Perez, a Community and Housing Development…
Jim Clement Resigns as Mayor
At its July 9, 2015 regular meeting the City Council accepted the resignation of Jim Clement as Mayor of Sandy Oaks. Clement was not present…
Mayor Clement Says Budget Hearing Not Necessary
Mayor Jim Clement told a citizen of Sandy Oaks on July 1, 2015 that it wasn’t necessary for the City Council to have a Budget…
Community Book Exchange Started
A book exchange has been started in the City of Sandy Oaks. The first exchange was held on June 27, 2015 at the home of…
Paperwork Pride
The success of the City of Sandy Oaks is going to ride on the success of the city government. That government will need to be…
The Good Neighbors
Catherine Rendahl, one of the organizers of the Good Neighbors group, submitted the following article with regards to the new community organization in Sandy Oaks.…
November Election Planned for 3 Council Positions
On June 11, 2015, the City Council approved an election for 3 Alderman positions. The election will be part of the general election held on…
City Council Hires A Marshal Without A Background Check
On June 11, 2015 the Sandy Oaks City Council approved Jesse Gutierrez to be the City Marshal. Gutierrez is a resident of Waterwood and works…
City Council Selects Tax Attorney, Possibly Violated TOMA
For the City Council meeting on June 11, 2015, the Council had on the agenda to discuss documents needed by the Bexar County Tax Assessor…