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9 • REGULARGuadalupe County Groundwater Conservation District (Guadalupe County)

REPORTS

Presented in: Board of Directors Regular Meeting - October 09, 2025 on 2025-10-09
Meeting Agenda PDF

Official Roll-Call Vote

Restrains Gov't • 2.4/10 Impact Weight
PASSED (7 - 0)
“Motion to approve REPORTS”
JS
Jeff Schuehle
Director, District 1 (District 1)
YES
AR
A Robert Raetzsch
Director, District 2 (District 2)
YES
RC
Rebecca Clark
Director, District 3 (District 3)
YES
JN
Jamie Nielson
Director, District 4 (District 4)
YES
CA
Chris Ayotte
Director, District 5 (District 5)
YES
HS
Hilmar Starcke
Director, District 6 (District 6)
YES
MM
Matt Miranda
Director, District 7 (District 7)
YES

Staff Report & Agenda Item Details

REPORTS A. Kelley Cochran: General Manager Report o Association updates – Ms. Cochran announced that registration is open for the TGWA Conference to be held in San Marcos – early bird rates expire Dec. 15th; GMA 13 meeting is October 10th – Dr. Hutchison is expected to submit the recalibrated GAM to TWDB on October 24, 2025. The deadline to propose DFCs for adoption is May 1, 2026. Ms. Cochran will be giving a presentation to the board at a future meeting to review the planning process. o Other District business – Ms. Cochran gave an update on the refined TPIA request and workload involved in gathering the leases and operating permits. An estimated 60.4 hours of staff time was invoiced to the requestor in amounts set by the Attorney General; GCGCD was able to coordinate with the driller and landowner to obtain a geophysical log of a recently drilled Wilcox livestock well in an area Page 5 of 6 GCGCD Minutes October 9, 2025 of interest for District monitoring. The Intent to Drill notice has proven very helpful in this situation, alerting us to a well in an area of interest for monitoring. Mr. Klemt has been recommending the District try to add a Carrizo monitoring well in the Vivroux Ranch Road area. The data from the logging of this well will assist the District in better understanding the base of the Carrizo and can be incorporated into our saturated sands thickness model with the next update; Water levels measurements were obtained Se

Bastiat Liberty & Property Rights Analysis

This motion is scored as RESTRAINS_GOVERNMENT (Impact Weight: 2.4/10). Under the Bastiat Liberty Watchdog Index, voting YES on measures that cap or reduce ad valorem tax burdens, expand taxpayer exemptions, retire debt early, enforce competitive bidding caps, or remove regulatory/zoning barriers to private property rights earns a positive Pro-Liberty score.