When the May 10 election ballots were tallied, contested races in the cities of Llano and Sunrise Beach Village were decided as well as in the Kingsland Municipal Utility District Board of Directors.

New Llano City Council Members will be Mike Reagor (282 votes), Mike Hazel (281 votes) and LaNell McKinney (195 votes). Respectable tallies went to the other two candidates, Sarah Thompson (156 votes) and Ervin Light (148).

Votes were canvassed yesterday and the new council members will be sworn in Friday at 10 a.m.

Reagor, a former city alderman who retired from the Natural Resources Conservation Service last year, took time out from rediscovering vegetable gardening to say simply, “I want to thank people for supporting me. I hope they will continue to as we go into this new term.”

Mike Hazel returned a call when he got out of a business meeting.

“I want to make sure I tell the citizens thanks for entrusting me to serve as alderman for the next two years,” he said. “Maybe we can make Llano a little bit greater place to live. We can’t do it all over night. All I promised every body was that I would do my job, not driven by any certain group.”

With the hubbub of her beauty salon in the background, McKinney said, “I’m excited. I think we can do some good things. We have good people to work with and we all have the same interest in Llano.”

Sunrise Beach

In Sunrise Beach the winners who emerged in the City Commission race were incumbent Ray Fleming (101 votes) and Lou Henson (100 votes). The other two candidates were Sherry Fern (65) and Carleen Pengg (34). Pat Frain was unopposed for a fourth two-year term.

Frain had considered retiring from the office when some pretty big issues began to emerge.

“I think the longest-serving mayor we ever had was Ed Houey,” she said. “He served 12 years, so people must really have liked him.”

“I think this is going to be an exciting time for our city,” she said. “We are buying the water system from the LCRA (Lower Colorado River Authority). It was sold to LCRA by the Sandy Mountain Development Company in 2002 and they announced at a recent meeting they would divest themselves of water systems.

“It seems foolish that every time it sells that price gets added back into our water rates. Now we will only have to pay that price one time. It is a positive move for the city.”

Mayor Frain said also that the commission had voted to ask the Texas Attorney General’s Office to approve expansion of the city commission from three commissioners to five.

“If it is approved in 90 days we will be on the November election,” she said. “As it is now, it would be a real impact on the community if all three were replaced at once.

“On a three-member commission, two members constitute a quorum. Two members can’t talk to one another without calling a meeting. It is problem for a new member with lots of questions.”

New Commissioner Henson Henson said: “I’m very pleased. We have some pretty big stuff coming at us. Our water system may become a pretty big issue We’ll have to tackle that.

“We had enough people running in this election to have filled a five-member field this time, but we just couldn’t work it out with the election rules. We can be a lot more effective (with an expanded commission).”

KMUD

On the Kingsland Water Supply Corporation Board of Directors, President Mary Ann Hefner was unopposed in Place 1, but she received 99 votes. Incumbent Treasurer Frank Willingham received 101 votes to return to Place 2. His opponent, former Director Joyce Ailshie, received 20 votes.

LISD

No election was necessary in the Llano Independent School District Board of Trustees and the three unopposed candidates were sworn in between the meeting of a construction sub-committee and a preliminary budget workshop of the school board on Monday.

They are new member J. Preston Mason in Place 4 and incumbents Coni Milliorn in Place 3 and Gerald Kasper in Place 1. Kaspar has been serving by appointment in the unexpired term of Alan Geistman, who moved out of the district in November.