Wood County voters face a variety of elections May 7, depending upon where they live.

Every voter in the county can cast a ballot for the state constitutional amendment election on Saturday, May 7.

The two propositions are aimed at reducing school property taxes. The first proposition extends tax breaks when those limitations are increased, and the second will increase the homestead exemption for school taxes from $25,000 to $40,000. See the full text below.

School district voters in Alba-Golden and Mineola will decide the fate of bond elections for the purpose of building or renovating school facilities.

Alba-Golden is seeking $16 million and Mineola $29,855,000.

Voters in the Alba-Golden, Mineola, Quitman and Winnsboro districts will have school board elections. The cities of Mineola and Winnsboro have city council elections.

Early voting for all May 7 elections is being conducted only in the Wood County elections office in Quitman weekdays from Monday, April 25 to Tuesday, May 3 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Four people are seeking three seats on the Mineola School Board including Janice Etheridge, Todd Q. Morgan, Glen Dossett and Jill Melvin Quiambao.

Three candidates for two Quitman School Board seats include Raymond Peek, Brook Rogers and Todd Williams.

Six candidates are running for two Alba-Golden School Board positions, including C.H. Campbell, Grant Keller, Dwayne Ellis, Dustin Lavy, Dwayne Thompson and Matt Haisten.

One seat on the Mineola City Council is on the ballot, Ward One, between Sue N. Jones and Robert “Bobby” Ryan. Wards Two and Three are uncontested.

Winnsboro ISD has eight candidates for two school board seats, five candidates for three city council seats, and the city of Winnsboro is seeking $11 million in improvement bonds in eight propositions.

No other cities and schools in Wood County have contested elections.

The state constitutional amendments are as follows:

Proposition One: The constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to provide for the reduction of the amount of a limitation on the total amount of ad valorem taxes that may be imposed for general elementary and secondary public school purposes on the residence homestead of a person who is elderly or disabled to reflect any statutory reduction from the preceding tax year in the maximum compressed rate of the maintenance and operations taxes imposed for those purposes on the homestead.

Proposition Two: The constitutional amendment increasing the amount of the residence homestead exemption from ad valorem taxation for public school purposes from $25,000 to $40,000.