Backlogged shipping at major U.S. ports and supply shortages that have resulted in price increases on various goods have had no apparent effect on spending in Burnet County.

Granite Shoals Mayor Will Skinner wants the city council to consider lowering the speed limits on smaller streets in the city limits. “I’ve been doing a lot of driving around the city and there are a lot of roads that aren’t wide enough to get two vehicles by,” he said at the Sept. 28 regular council meeting. “We do see a lot of speeding down these roads. “A lot of kids are out there,” he added. “I don’t want to see anyone get hurt.”

At the request of one councilman, city of Granite Shoals officials will begin inquiring about the steps required – and the associated costs – to become a “dark sky” community. Councilman Phil Ort raised the topic at the Tuesday, Sept. 28 city council meeting following his return from vacation at Yellowstone National Park.

Granite Shoals officials will update the municipality’s personnel policy, including pandemic-related time off, to maintain compliance with state law after two legislative bills were signed into law recently.

The Granite Shoals City Council unanimously approved a fiscal year 2021- 22 budget with an approximate $24,000 surplus in the general fund and a tax rate equal to last year’s rate, which will lead to higher tax bills for residents. The council conducted the final public hearing on the budget at the Tuesday, Sept. 14 regular council meeting; the final public hearing for the tax rate was held at the Thursday, Sept. 9 special called meeting.

At the end of the 13-mile march, 60-year-old U.S. Army veteran Dave Oxford described his effort as taxing but worth the message he and two others sent to the community, families of fallen service members and veterans.

A regional emergency services entity is sharing the chronology of its journey adapting and serving a growing Highland Lakes area with the announcement of its 20-year anniversary. In 2001, four years before Horseshoe Bay became an incorporated city, Marble Falls Area EMS contracted with Horseshoe Bay MUD as the EMS provider for the area that would eventually become the City of Horseshoe Bay in 2005.