An open meeting is slated for Saturday to give folks a chance to discuss the possibility of a third municipality in Blanco County, an idea that has divided area residents.
“We did not have the chance to voice our opinion because everything is being done secretly by the people who are for this city,” said Mitchell Liesmann, who lives in the area that would become part of a new Class C city, Hobbes, if voters approve the incorporation next month. He answered questions from the News in an email this week. “Our county judge, Judge Brett Bray, had a Town Hall last year before he would sign the order to get it on the 2024 ballot. His wife owns land in the proposed city so he did a very good job of being impartial to both sides of the aisle. After 50+ people showed up to get information, Judge Bray did not sign the order and recused himself.”
However, many folks were not aware that the notion of Hobbes was alive and well even though it did not make it onto the ballot last November.
