Bill Spinks
The Midlothian City Council and Midlothian ISD Board of Trustees will have at least one new member each following the results of Saturday’s joint city-school election.
Ross Weaver was elected to the City Council by a wide margin, and Ryan Timm won his race for school board by almost a 2-to-1 margin, according to unofficial final results announced by the Ellis County Elections Office. Meanwhile, there will be a runoff between incumbent Hud Hartson and Wayne Shuffield on the City Council in June.
Weaver received 1,812 votes, or 60.83 percent, to 1,167 for incumbent Ed Gardner in the Place 5 election. Gardner, who won a special election last year to complete the unexpired term of current Mayor Justin Coffman, was seeking a full three-year term.
Weaver is executive vice president and agency manager for Town Square Title and is a longtime member of the Midlothian Planning and Zoning Commission. He is also co-chairman of the Legislative Affairs Committee of the Midlothian Chamber of Commerce.
In the other City Council race on the ballot, Place 6, no candidate received a majority of votes. Shuffield led with 1,228 votes, followed by Hartson with 907, Dannion McLendon with 484 and Ronnie Morris with 429.
Shuffield and Hartson will advance to a runoff election, which will be held June 15.
On the MISD board, incumbent Richard Peña won re-election to a second term in Place 1, beating challenger Lisa Healy. Peña, a former MISD school resource officer, had 2,282 votes (58.94 percent) to 1,590 for Healy. Incumbent board vice president Gary Vineyard was unopposed for Place 2.
But in Place 3, Timm won convincingly, defeating incumbent Eduardo Gonzalez with 2,565 votes, or 65.65 percent, to Gonzalez’s 1,342 votes. Gonzalez was seeking a second term on the board.
Timm, formerly the principal of Baxter Elementary in MISD, is now a marketing director with State Farm Insurance in the southern Dallas-Fort Worth area.
