By Samantha Smith and Moses Leos III  After a six year stint as Buda's assistant city manager, Brian LaBorde will head north next month after he was hired as the new city manager in Keene, Tex. Keene Mayor James Chaplin announced Wednesday LaBorde was joining the Keene City Staff and is set to sta...

  By Samantha Smith and Moses Leos III  After a six year stint as Buda's assistant city manager, Brian LaBorde will head north next month after he was hired as the new city manager in Keene, Tex. Keene Mayor James Chaplin announced Wednesday LaBorde was joining the Keene City Staff and is set to sta...

By Samantha Smith A proposed cost-sharing agreement between Buda and an area homeowners association could split responsibility for the upkeep of streetlights and signs in the city’s right-of-way.  While discussion took place in early July, city council ultimately tabled the item to give city staff t...

By Samantha Smith Action was taken by the Buda City Council in June as they approved final design costs and bids for the Proposition 3 street projects.  The project includes improvements to Old Goforth Road, San Antonio Street and the intersection at FM 967 and Main Street. While final design plans ...

Leif Johnson’s Truck City Ford donated $10,000 to the Buda Area Chamber of Commerce (BACC) corporate partner program. This investment is the largest single member contribution in the 14-year history of the BACC. Fred Trudeau, General Manager of the Leif Johnson Family of Dealerships, presented the c...

By Moses Leos III With federal funding for road projects on the table, narrowing down which were worthy of federal dollars was priority for Buda.  City leaders wanted to ensure those projects would compete for $76.5 million from the Surface Transportation Program – Metropolitan Mobility (STP MM) fun...

By Moses Leos III Incremental increases to water and wastewater rates could be on the horizon for Buda utility customers.  A five percent water and two percent wastewater rate increase spread out between Fiscal Years (FY) 2015-16 to 2018-19 may occur, according to Assistant City Manager Brian LaBord...