General Information

The Hill Country Underground Water Conservation District (“District”) Board of Directors consists of five members.

These five Directors are elected by the voters of Gillespie County and serve four-year terms.

The District observes the same four precincts as the Gillespie County Commissioners Court with one at-large position.

Director terms are staggered on a two-year interval.

Elections are held in May of odd numbered years and a director may serve consecutive terms.

 Requirements & Deadline for Filing for Candidacy

Section 8810.052(a) of the Texas Special District Local Laws Code provides that one director shall be elected by the voters of the entire district, and one director shall be elected from each county commissioner’s precinct by the voters of that precinct.

Section 8810.052(c) of the Texas Special District Local Laws Code requires that to be eligible to be a candidate for or to serve as director at large, a person must be a registered voter in the district. To be a candidate for or to serve as director from a county commissioner’s precinct, a person must be a registered voter of that precinct.

Moreover, to be qualified to serve as a director, Section 141.001 of the Texas Election Code requires that a person be at least 18 years old, a United States citizen, a resident of the State of Texas for 12 months, and a resident of the district for 6 months prior to the regular candidate filing deadline (78 days before election day), not totally or partially mentally incapacitated, and not a convicted felon, unless pardoned or otherwise released from the resulting disabilities.

A person that desires to be a candidate for the director election must timely complete and submit an application for a place on the ballot for the election.  A person shall indicate on the application for a place on the ballot the precinct that the person seeks to represent or that the person seeks to represent the district at large.

Applications for a place on the ballot may be obtained downloaded and printed out from the Secretary of State’s website:  (Click Here)
Applications/Forms

Texas Ethics Commission (Click Here)

For information regarding the May 3, 2025 director’s elections for Precinct 1 and Precinct 3, please visit the Gillespie County Election administrator website:  (Click Here)
https://www.gillespiecounty.org/page/election_info