A split Kyle City Council last week confirmed the city manager’s appointment of a north Texas police chief to lead a fragmented police department here.
The council voted 4-3 on Thursday in favor of offering the job to Jeff Barnett, the police chief since 2005 in Princeton, a town of about 7,500 residents in Collin County on the edge of the Dallas metropolitan area. In doing so, they effectively passed over Joe Muñoz, a politically connected Austin police officer and Kyle resident who was the favorite of council members Jaime Sanchez, Brad Pickett and Russ Huebner.
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