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The Voice of Seguin Today
Volume 55 • Number 210 830 • 379 • 2234
Seguin welcomes new mayor Dodgen to lead the city for the next four years By Cindy Aguirre-Herrera
(Seguin) -- Seguin’s future now lies in the hands of a new city mayor. Winning the seat on Tuesday was former Seguin City Councilmember Donna Dodgen. Dodgen defeated challenger Francisco “Frank” Herrera for the top city seat. Dodgen received 5,135 of the votes cast while Herrera received 3,459 votes. Dodgen says she is honored for the opportunity and can’t wait to get started. “I am so excited and I just really want to thank everybody and I truly appreciate it. I had super, super support. It’s just been amazing and I’ve learned so much. You continue to learn things with the city and how to do things and you learn what Seguin has and has to offer and it’s been an amazing trip and journey and it’s not over yet. In fact, it’s just beginning,” said Dodgen. Dodgen says with a majority of the city council being new, her first priority will
be to help ease those individuals into their own respective positions. “I really promise that we’ll continue our positive past and I want to continue to work to make this a great place to live, work and play. I pledge to listen and to support and be a part of the solution and facilitate needed changes. We can do it. We can do anything and we can do it together.But, some of the first things that I know we need to do is we need to do an orientation. There’s four new ones. I’ve been there and Chris (Rangel) has been there but there’s three who have not been on council and who have not had that experience so I think we need to get them acquainted to what is happening. I think we need to get them acquainted to the budget that just occurred and the new things that are happening and how it all kind of works, -- communication and I really want to form a really good team. I want to pull us together so we can work together and move us forward,” said Dodgen.
Newly elected Seguin Mayor Donna Dodgen, center, celebrates her win with brother, Les Dodgen, left and friend Brenda Pompa. Dodgen returns to city government after having served as a council member from 2012-2018.