Dripping Springs ISD candidates discuss growth, COVID-19, funding

by Chase Rogers

The Hays County League of Women Voters chapter held a virtual forum for candidates vying for a position on the Dripping Springs Independent School District Board of Trustees Oct. 1, discussing school district’s growth, COVID-19 mitigation and school funding.

Their terms originally slated to end May 2020 before Gov. Greg Abbott’s order to delay elections to November, board members Ron Jones and Barbara Stroud are running for re-election to the board. Newcomers Lori Broughton, a retired public school educator, and Stephanie Holtzendorf, a systems analyst with the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, are running for a seat on the board.