{"id":162594,"date":"2026-02-13T02:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T02:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/162594\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T02:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T02:57:09","slug":"city-of-bee-cave-to-host-election-for-mayor-2-council-seats-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/162594\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Bee Cave to host election for mayor, 2 council seats in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThree seats are up for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beecavetexas.gov\/government\/departments\/city_secretary\/elections\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">election<\/a> in Bee Cave this May, following an <a href=\"https:\/\/cityofbeecavetexas.community.diligentoneplatform.com\/document\/82028f12-e9ca-43f0-8a0e-328ec58c279c\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ordinance<\/a> approved by City Council on Feb. 10.<\/p>\n<p>The positions include the mayor and two council members, which are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beecavetexas.gov\/government\/city_council\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">currently<\/a> held by Kara King, Kit Crumbley and Andrea Willott, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the council are elected at large to serve two-year staggered terms, according to the city.<\/p>\n<p>What you need to know <\/p>\n<p>The window to file closes at 5 p.m. Feb. 13, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sos.state.tx.us\/elections\/voter\/important-election-dates.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Secretary of State<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the city, qualified candidates must:<\/p>\n<p>Be a registered voterBe 18 years old prior to the start of the term being filledHave lived in the city for at least one yearThe election is set for May 2, with a voter registration deadline of April 2.<\/p>\n<p>What else? <\/p>\n<p>Mayor Kara King announced the suspension of her <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/austin\/lake-travis-westlake\/government\/2025\/10\/17\/bee-cave-mayor-kara-king-announces-campaign-for-us-district-10-representative\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. House District 10 congressional run<\/a> in a Feb. 3 Facebook post, citing unsustainable fundraising demands. King said she will be reviewing her options regarding reelection.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three seats are up for election in Bee Cave this May, following an ordinance approved by City Council&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,19507,66530,66531,8201,66529,66535,66532,66533,1604,66534,251],"class_list":{"0":"post-162594","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news","11":"tag-bee-cave-city-council","12":"tag-bee-cave-city-council-elections","13":"tag-bee-cave-city-elections","14":"tag-bee-cave-election","15":"tag-bee-cave-elections","16":"tag-bee-cave-kara-king","17":"tag-bee-cave-mayor","18":"tag-bee-cave-mayor-elections","19":"tag-community-impact","20":"tag-kara-king","21":"tag-local-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}