{"id":443612,"date":"2026-09-22T02:54:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T02:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/443612\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T02:54:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T02:54:16","slug":"qa-meet-the-candidates-for-harris-county-esd-9-cy-fair-jersey-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/443612\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&#038;A: Meet the candidates for Harris County ESD 9 | Cy-Fair &#8211; Jersey Village"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four candidates are running for three seats on the Harris County Emergency Services District No. 9 dais of five this November.<\/p>\n<p>Harris County ESD 9 serves as a political subdivision and taxing entity that supports fire suppression and emergency medical service operations for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyfairfd.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Cy-Fair Fire Department<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some context<\/p>\n<p>Harris County ESD 9 commissioner elections are not administered as individual positions or places on the board. The three candidates who receive the most votes will serve four-year terms on the Harris County ESD 9 Board, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/tcss.legis.texas.gov\/resources\/HS\/pdf\/HS.775.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Chapter 775<\/a> of the Texas Health and Safety Code.  <\/p>\n<p>Early voting begins Oct. 19 and runs through Oct. 30, according to the Texas Secretary of State&#8217;s website. Election day is Nov. 3 and polls will be open from 7 a.m.-7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Registered voters can cast their ballots at any polling location during early voting and on election day.<\/p>\n<p>Candidates were asked to keep responses within 50 words, answer the questions provided and avoid attacking opponents. Answers may have been edited or cut to adhere to those guidelines, or for style and clarity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four candidates are running for three seats on the Harris County Emergency Services District No. 9 dais of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[153235,409,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-443612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-cy-fair-jersey-village","tag-election","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443612","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=443612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}