First Formal Communication From City Council to Residents
After almost 2 years in existence, the City Council has sent its first formal communication to the residents of Sandy Oaks. On February 11, 2016…
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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…
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…
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 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…
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…
City Council Violates Texas Open Meetings Law, Again
The Sandy Oaks City Council violated the Texas Open Meetings Act again at its regularly scheduled meeting May 14, 2015. The Council discussed a topic…
City Council Convenes In Illegal Executive Session
March 21, 2015 the City Council met for a special meeting after having cancelled the meeting it had planned for Thursday, March 19th. The 12th…
Who Owns the Roads?
On February 26, 2014 the City Council met to fix the tax debacle they created when they created an illegal amount of sales taxes. The…
3 Men Suspected of Tampering with Government Document
We live in a democratic republic, a special form of government that allows citizens to democratically elect representatives to represent. When these representatives make decisions…
City Council Ignores Open Records Request, Violates Public Information Act
At the City Council meeting on February 12, 2015, the City Council was handed an Open Records Request from Don Hormachea. He handed the Request…
City Council’s Sales Tax Woes
The Sandy Oaks City Council held a special meeting on February 26, 2015 to discuss the illegal amount of sales taxes they created last fall.…
Mayor Clement Wants VIA Back On Ballot
At the City Council meeting on February 12, 2015, Mayor Jim Clement wanted to discuss and consider placing the removal of the VIA sales tax…
Alderman Earnest Gay Lies In Speech to Texas Public Policy Foundation
Alderman Earnest Gay was the honorary speaker at a presentation in Austin for the Texas Public Policy Foundation on January 8, 2015. He contributed about…
City Council Created Illegal Sales Tax
By Texas state law, the maximum sales tax that can be imposed is 8.25%. Of that, the state collects 6.25% which means that local municipalities…
Second Largest Contributor to SOPAC Hands City Council New Ordinance
At the city council meeting yesterday all council members had a manila envelope which Jim Clement had delivered to them. Inside was a packet organized for…
City Council Accidentally Passes Retroactive Property Tax
Last night the Sandy Oaks City Council met for a budget hearing to discuss revenue and expenses. The meeting was less formal than a usual…
City Council Thanks Committee to Incorporate Sandy Oaks
Last night the Sandy Oaks City Council voted in favor of of a resolution thanking the Committee to Incorporate Sandy Oaks (CISO), the group that…
Hired Von Ormy Marshal Silences Residents
The first two city council meetings of the City of Sandy Oaks were policed by a law enforcement officer from Von Ormy, Texas named…
Orduno’s and Clement’s Secret Meeting
The Committee to Incorporate Sandy Oaks (CISO) worked for 3+ years to get the community of Waterwood and the surrounding area to be released from…
Results of Small Town Politics
The very first City Council of Sandy Oaks, Texas was elected August 9, 2014. 2014 Candidates Political games started the same month that Sandy Oaks…
3rd Candidates Meeting, SOPAC Still Doesn’t Attend
On July 22, 2014, candidates running for City Council met for a 3rd and final time before the election. The event was hosted by Catherine…
Candidates Host 2nd Meeting, SOPAC Does Not Attend
People are now starting to call them the “Outsiders” because Micki Ball, Cathleen Recio, and David Tremblay are the only candidates outside of the Sandy…
Meet the Candidates Meeting
On July 8, 2014, a “Meet the Candidates” meeting was held in the Waterwood clubhouse. The event was organized by Jim Clement, the only candidate…
Earnest Gay 2014 Platform
As of 5pm July 15th, Earnest Gay was contacted and asked to answer the following questions. Platform: What specifically would you like to accomplish…