Uvalde County Commissioners Court and Nueces Canyon ISD votes put Rosemberg Risa on top with enough votes to clinch the empty UCAD seat
By Michael Robinson | Uvalde Hesperian
Nueces Canyon ISD met Monday night, October 16th, 2023 in Barksdale where the board members voted to give their 28 Uvalde County Appraisal District (UCAD) votes to Rosemberg Risa for election to the vacant UCAD seat previously held by Javier Flores prior to Flores being recalled.
Risa told the Uvalde Hesperian he attended last night’s Nueces Canyon ISD board meeting and introduced himself as a person interested in the position. According to Risa, someone speaking on behalf of the board told him he was the 1st person to present to the board in the past 15 years.
The Uvalde County Commissioners Court nominated Risa as their candidate for the UCAD seat and later voted to cast that entity’s 331 votes to Risa in September 2023. On September 9th, 2023 at the Uvalde CISD board meeting, the trustees cast its 212 votes to Luis Fernandez. Knippa ISD with 50 votes and Southwest Texas Junior College with 48 votes will be holding their meetings this coming Thursday, October 19th, to decide what candidate will receive their respective UCAD votes.
Risa now has a total of 359 votes which means he is the unofficial winner of the UCAD open seat.
