Election set for council, trustee races

By Amanda Rogers

Mansfield Record

By Amanda Rogers

Mansfield Record

The ballot is in for Mansfield’s May 6 elections.

In addition to Mansfield ISD trustee and City Council candidates, voters will also consider a pair of bond propositions from the city.

Both propositions ask voters to consider widening the spectrum of uses for the half-cent sales tax collected by the Mansfield Economic Development Corp. Neither proposition would create any new taxes, explained MEDC director Jason Moore, just allow the MEDC to use the funds for a wider variety of projects.

Mansfield voters approved a half-cent sales tax in 1997. A half-cent also goes to the Mansfield Park Facilities Development Corp.

If approved, Proposition A would allow the MEDC to use the half-cent sales tax to attract professional and amateur sports and athletic facilities, tourism and entertainment facilities, convention facilities, public parks, and related stores, restaurants, parking and transportation facilities.

Currently, the half-cent sales tax can be used for manufacturing, industrial, research and development, warehouse, distribution and corporate headquarters.

Proposition B asks voters to approve using the half-cent sales tax for a multi-sport venue and related infrastructure, plus maintenance and operating costs.

On the Mansfield City Council, Scott Bowman, an IT manager, and Brent Newsom, who served on the council for nine years at Place 2 before resigning to run for mayor, have filed for the final year of Mike Leyman’s Place 3 seat.  Leyman, who was elected to the seat in 2018 and re-elected in 2021, resigned in January.

For Place 6, incumbent Todd Tonore, a local business owner, and Gary Cardinale, a retired Mansfield city employee, are in contention.

For Place 7, incumbent Larry Broseh, a retired business owner, is the lone candidate. Juan Fresquez Jr., president of Methodist Mansfield Medical Center, had filed to run, but withdrew his candidacy before the filing deadline.

On the Mansfield ISD school board ballot, Place 6 and Place 7 are up for re-election.

At Place 6, Quintin V. Huckaby, a Realtor, and Benita Reed, an educator, will face off. Dustin McDonald, a flight dispatcher, and Anne Weydeck, who is retired, had filed to run, but have withdrawn. Incumbent Warrant Davis, who was elected to Place 6 in 2020, did not file for re-election.

At Place 7, incumbent school board president Courtney Lackey Wilson, an executive assistant, is the lone candidate. Saba Ahmed, a patent attorney, had filed, but withdrew the candidacy Feb. 21.

The elections are set for May 6 with early voting April 24-May 2.

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