A running, sourced log of votes, meetings, records requests and legal actions involving the Floresville City Council and Mayor's office — kept by residents, for residents.
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How this record is kept
Sourced, not summarized. Every entry links to the meeting minutes, news report, court filing or records-request correspondence it's based on. No source, no entry.
Fact vs. allegation. "Documented" means confirmed by a primary record or independent reporting. "Alleged" means a claim is on the record but not yet independently confirmed — we say so.
Corrections welcome. If something here is wrong or missing context, email us and we'll fix it or note the dispute publicly.
Know your rights
Texas law already gives residents specific tools for exactly the problems this log tracks. Here's the short version — this isn't legal advice, and specifics can turn on the facts of a given meeting or request.
Public comment & open meetings
Governing bodies must post a public agenda in advance and generally can't take action on items not posted.
A body can set reasonable, evenly-applied rules for public comment (like a time limit per speaker) — but it can't shut out speakers based on viewpoint, or use "decorum" rules to suppress criticism of officials.
Closed ("executive") sessions are only lawful for specific purposes (personnel, litigation, real estate, security). Using one to discuss something else, or to avoid a public vote, is a Texas Open Meetings Act problem.
Violations can be raised with the county or district attorney, or through a civil suit — as happened here in 2019 over a closed-session vote tied to the city election.
Public information requests
A governmental body generally must respond "promptly," and if it wants to withhold anything, it must ask the Texas Attorney General for a ruling within 10 business days of the request.
If it misses that 10-day window, the law presumes the information is public and it must be released — regardless of the reason for the delay.
The Attorney General's Open Government Hotline (toll-free, 877-673-6839) takes questions and complaints about slow or non-responses.
A pattern of ignored requests — yours or anyone else's — is itself worth logging with dates, since a single missed deadline is leverage under the Public Information Act.
Add to the record
Were you cut off during public comment? Waiting on a records request the city hasn't answered? Send the date, what happened, and anything you have in writing (an email, a denial letter, a meeting clip). We only publish what's documented.