An Aubrey City Council member is one of two candidates for the Region 8 seat on the Texas Municipal League's board of directors, and city councils across the region have started voting.
Mike Browning, listed on the official ballot as a council member from Aubrey, is running against Mary Sarver, mayor pro tem of Grandview, who holds the seat now. The Denton City Council and Little Elm Town Council both have the election on their agendas for Tuesday, Oct. 13.
How the vote works
The league, which provides legal, legislative and training services to Texas cities, divides the state into 15 regions, each with a seat on its board. Even-numbered regions elect directors in even-numbered years. Region 8 covers Denton, Wise, Cooke, Palo Pinto, Parker, Tarrant, Erath, Hood, Johnson and Somervell counties, according to a Denton staff report.
Each member city gets one vote, and it must be cast by a majority of the city's governing body. Signed ballots must reach the league by 5 p.m. Nov. 5. The two-year term starts Nov. 13, when the league's annual conference adjourns, and runs to November 2028. Aubrey has posted notices that a quorum of its council may attend that conference Nov. 11 to 13.
Neither Denton nor Little Elm staff recommended a candidate. Denton's draft resolution leaves the name blank, and Little Elm staff asked their council for direction.
The candidates
Browning's ballot biography says he has more than 25 years of executive experience in manufacturing, technology and entrepreneurship and is founder and CEO of Symbios Additive LLC.
