There are four County Commissioners, one for each area of Hays County, and two are on the ballot every other election. Our four Commissioners and our County Judge are the ones who decide how our county spends our money. Your vote for County Commissioner can decide whether your roads get repaired, whether our groundwater and the Edwards Aquifer are protected, how the county gets ready for the next freeze or flood, and how much your county property taxes go up.
The Democratic candidate
Angie Unger
DemocratAbout Angie
Unger wants Hays County to say no to water-hungry data centers unless they can prove a real benefit — and to protect the aquifer before it builds another pipeline.
Before real estate she was a senior paralegal running the day-to-day of a criminal-justice office — budgets, case files, compliance — and she's owned small businesses on both sides of the border. Now a Dripping Springs Realtor with two daughters in DSISD schools, she says county roads should be fixed by engineering data, not politics, and she's running with no corporate money.
Also on the ballot
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Rob McClellandAbout Rob
McClelland spent 12 years as an Army officer — Bronze Star, then a logistics officer in the White House — and now sits on the Dripping Springs school board, where he made news as the "whistleblower" in a Texas Public Policy Foundation attack on school-finance consultants.
TPPF is the Austin think tank behind school vouchers and the campaign against public-school funding. McClelland is director of business development for BPI Partners, an Austin firm that does drainage, erosion and stormwater work on construction sites in Hays County — the kind of work the Commissioners Court hands out contracts for. He also sits on the Texas School Safety Center board (an Abbott appointment) and is a deacon at his church. On growth, water and the county budget, his answers so far are "fiscal discipline" and "responsible development."
This is a precinct race — whether it is on your ballot depends on your address. Enter your address in the guide and it will work out your precinct for you.
Where to vote
Hays County uses vote centers — any registered Hays County voter can vote at any open location in the county. Locations and hours by city: