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13 • REGULARGuadalupe County Groundwater Conservation District (Guadalupe County)

REPORTS

Presented in: Board of Directors Regular Meeting - January 08, 2026 on 2026-01-08
Meeting Agenda PDF

Official Roll-Call Vote

Expands Gov't • 2.0/10 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 she participated in a webinar presented by TAGD, the Meadows Center, and the Environmental Defense Fund Exploring GCD Approaches to Correlative Allocations on December 10th – the recording is available on the TAGD YouTube channel; GMA 13 meeting previously scheduled for January 9, 2026 has been canceled. The next meeting will be February 13, 2026, the agenda remains the same - we will review initial bounding scenarios using the new recalibrated GAM; TAGD Winter business meeting will be January 20-21 with a new bootcamp focusing Page 3 of 4 GCGCD Minutes January 8, 2026 on applied pump principles and hydraulics. GCGCD staff is registered for the bootcamp; TGWA Annual Conference is January 28-29 in San Marcos; TWA will be in Fort Worth March 11-13 which conflicts with GCGCD regularly scheduled March 12th meeting so Ms. Cochran will attend the GCGCD remotely from the event. o Other District business – The District is scheduled to obtain water level measurements on January 23rd; Planning and coordination continues for the winter Wilcox aquifer test at Ranchy. Ms. Cochran summarized communications with Bluebonnet Water Wells drilling a well October 13, 2025 without submitting a notice of intent to drill and 3 wells drilled by Hazelett Drilling on November 12, 19, and 20, 2025 without filing a notice of intent to drill. Should this pattern continue

Bastiat Liberty & Property Rights Analysis

This motion is scored as EXPANDS_GOVERNMENT (Impact Weight: 2.0/10). Under the Bastiat Liberty Watchdog Index, measures that increase tax rates or fee schedules, issue new debt or Certificates of Obligation, expand regulatory/zoning restrictions on private land use, or authorize unbudgeted spending expansions reduce an official's Freedom Score when voted YES (and reward dissenting NO votes).