General Board Meeting Recap: August 25, 2025

Lawsuits, Lunch Money, and the Fine Art of Denial

Overview

Your friendly neighborhood chaos factory, a.k.a. the WTCMUD1 Board, convened once again to prove that self-inflicted wounds are their specialty. Headliners included:

• A lawsuit the Board insists is not against residents (except for the three residents it actually is against).

• Another riveting round of “Why Transparency Is Hard,” featuring withheld records, suspiciously few contractor bids, and the occasional shrug.

• A financial review complete with tax talk, capital planning, and sidewalk squabbles that left everyone wondering: who exactly does own the pavement under our feet?

  
  

Public Comment: 2 Minutes to Midnight Residents turned out with their two-minute timers locked and loaded. Concerns? Oh, the usual—honesty, accountability, the Board’s aversion to sunlight. A few highlights:

• Calls to update meeting rules so they stop breaking the law every time someone says more than two sentences.

• A reminder that Austin’s contractor pool is larger than 93% of U.S. metros—so the excuse that “we just can’t find three bids” is, shall we say, creative fiction.

• Practical fixes: require at least three bids, extend deadlines, rebid every five years, and maybe—just maybe—hire someone who actually knows how procurement works.

  
  

Board Response: Lawsuit? What Lawsuit? The lawsuit elephant in the room got dressed in a tutu and paraded around as “not really a lawsuit against residents.” The spin: the Board is bravely defending the District from four dangerous individuals accused of… showing up to meetings, speaking during public comment, and publishing inconvenient facts.

Residents weren’t buying it. Especially since the July 10th hearing transcript—where the Judge DENIED both the TRO and permanent injunction—has been published on MUDucation.org for all to read. Spoiler: the Board’s attempt to gag its critics flopped harder than a bad Netflix reboot.

Next stop: September 17th, where the court will consider dismissing the whole mess under the Texas Citizens Participation Act. Translation: the Constitution is about to be waved in the Board’s face, and it won’t be pretty.

Financials, Sidewalks & Other Miscellany The Board did eventually pivot to business-as-usual, where the drama was lower but the eye-rolls were plentiful:

• The District is officially “developed”—something 95% of residents already knew because, you know, we live here.

• Sidewalks in Williamson County are now our problem, thanks to the County handing them off like a hot potato. Expect more debates about broken panels than you ever wanted. 

• A pump got replaced, a few lights got fixed, and sod watering will now cost more than some people’s dinner tabs.

  
  

Closing Thought At the end of the day, residents were left with the same old drumbeat: secrecy, spin, and a lawsuit no one asked for. But if the Board hoped their billing-statement-envelope letter would confuse everyone? Sorry, MUDucation.org is still publishing the receipts. And traffic is up. Way up.

Stay tuned for September 17th, when the Constitution makes its cameo appearance.