Boerne Mayor Frank Ritchie and District 2 Councilman Joe Bateman began serving three-year terms Tuesday as city administrators revealed their plan for the three-year council term proposal enacted by passage of Proposition A in May.
Ritchie and Councilmen Bateman and Bret Bunker won their respective races in May. Boerne voters also approved Prop A — which replaces existing two-year terms for the mayor and council, with three-year terms — by nearly a 3-to-1 margin.
At the May 27 council meeting, City Manager Ben Thatcher reviewed the vote and the process of moving from two-year to threeyear terms.
Currently, councilmembers from the odd-numbered districts — Dist. 1, Ty Wolosin, Dist. 3, Quinten Scott and Dist. 5, Joseph Macaluso — run for election in even-numbered years. The mayor and councilmembers from districts 2 and 4 run in odd-numbered years.
Bateman, who was sworn into office at the May 27 meeting, defeated District 2 Councilwoman Sharon Wright in the May 3 election, while Bunker ran and was elected without opposition in district 4.
Thatcher reviewed the proposed election schedule under a three-year rotation:
• 2026 election: District 1 (Ty Wolosin) and District 3 (Quinten Scott).
• 2027 election: Dist. 4 (Bret Bunker) and Dist. 5 (Joe Macaluso).
• 2028 election: Mayor (Frank Ritchie) and Dist. 2 (Joe Bateman).
Wolosin and Scott will complete their two-year terms in May 2026. Those seats will come up for election again in May 2029.
Macaluso gets an extra year of service — elected in 2024 but not up for re-election until 2027 under the new system.
Council approved the item 4-0, with Councilman Ty Wolosin absent from the meeting.
The three-year term ballot item in May marked the second time the city tried to enact a longer term for its councilmembers. A previous effort to adopt the extended term failed in the November 2020 charter amendment election.
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