Staff Report BUDA – The Texas Forest Service and Arbor Day Foundation recently designated Buda as a Tree City USA for the third consecutive year.   Buda’s Sustainability Commission and Parks and Recreation department collaborated in leading the effort to obtain the designation. Known as the “Outdoor...

Buda – The Buda Area Chamber of Commerce will be honoring City Manager Kenneth Williams with a Roast and Toast at its monthly luncheon on Wednesday, March 16, 2022, at the Onion Creek Seniors Center, 420 Barton Crossing beginning at 11:30 A.M. Luncheons are open to members and non-members alike. Sea...

Staff Report  BUDA – Deputy City Manager Micah Grau was named the interim city manager for Buda, which will become effective April 1.  Grau The city also engaged the international firm, Baker Tily, to conduct its search for a new city manager after Kenneth Williams tendered his resignation to the ci...

Staff Report BUDA -- Buda's longtime city manager Kenneth Williams announced his resignation to city council members on Tuesday. Williams has served as the city manager with Buda for over 13 years. A tenure that began Sept. 8, 2008, is set to end March 31, 2022. Kenneth Williams, Buda's longtime cit...

IMG_9324 A variety of cars were lined up end-to-end for the June 19 parade. Some people brought their classic cars, police officers and fire engines were leading the parade. Cars and trucks were decorated in Black Lives Matter flags and people held their artistic signs displaying paintings of black ...

Unusual times call for unusual measures, and the COVID-19 pandemic certainly qualifies as unusual. That’s not stopping Buda-area residents, who are putting together a Juneteenth/Black Lives Matter Car Parade for Friday, June 19. The parade will start at approximately 6 p.m. Rich in black history bec...

A proposed $3.5 million project aimed at creating a trail system in the Garlic Creek subdivision in Buda isn’t expected to affect nearby Hays CISD bus routes, said city staff in early August. But at the same time, Buda is now waiting once again to see if an application aimed at obtaining grant fundi...

Plans for acquiring property meant to boost economic development on Main Street in Buda ended April 30 when city leaders voted 7-0 to officially end the venture. The formal decision to do so, however, was preceded by weeks of uncertainty, a factor in the backbiting between the city and the Buda Econ...

Disapproval by Buda city staff of the Economic Development Corporation’s (EDC) decision to nix funding for a proposed water line to Buda Elementary was a factor in a continuing fight between the two bodies. That specific argument escalated in a resolution approved by Buda city leaders April 25 that ...

For more background on this story, click here:  Jumping from the EDC ship Accusations of discrimination from three female Buda Economic Development Corporation (EDC) employees were levied Tuesday against the city of Buda as the battle between the two bodies escalated. Those accusations came as the B...