Lea Lashley for Heath City Council, Pl. 1

05/02/2025

Preserving Heath as the Ideal Place to Call Home 🏡✨
Heath is more than just a location—it’s a community built on family values, peaceful neighborhoods, and a commitment to maintaining our city as a premier place to live. As your candidate for Heath City Council, Place 1, my priority is to support Heath as a destination for living—not a destination city for excessive commercial activities or tourism.

We cherish our small-town feel, where residents can enjoy scenic beauty, thoughtful development, and a city that prioritizes quality of life above all else. Growth is inevitable, but thoughtful and responsible growth ensures that Heath remains a place we can all be proud to call home.

Let’s work together to protect our community’s charm and integrity while fostering smart policies that benefit our residents first. Your voice matters—let’s keep Heath a hometown, not an attraction.
I’d love to hear your thoughts! Comment below or send me a message to discuss how we can work together for Heath’s future.


Concerned Citizens of Heath City of Heath, TX

05/02/2025

Tomorrow is the day! Make your voice heard at the polls. VOTE Lea Lashley for Heath City Council, Place 1!

Exercise Your Right to Vote, Tomorrow!
• Polls are Open 7 A.M. - 7 P.M.
• Heath City Hall, Community Room, 200 Laurence Dr..
• On the Ballot: Heath City Council Places 1, 2, 4 and 6

04/25/2025

It's a "Fantastic Friday" in City of Heath, TX - join us for early voting at Heath City Hall today & tomorrow!

04/24/2025

Hot off the press this morning: a new endorsement from our currently Place 1 City Council representative, Sharon Caldwell. Read on to see what she has to say about Lea:

"I wholeheartedly endorse Lea Lashley for Heath City Council, Pl. 1. Lea has NO self-serving agendas; Lea is committed ONLY to her hometown.

I have known Lea for some time as a neighbor with a lovely family. More recently she became a vigorous organizing advocate for this community, appearing before the city in opposition to a large development. She familiarized herself with the comprehensive plan & ordinances, tirelessly organized her neighbors to appear at Planning & Zoning and City Council meetings to advocate for our community, not the developer.

She is a dedicated Amy Parks Elementary mom helping to support the parent-teacher organization in a robust way. She active in her Heath church. Lea is a smart conservative who has steadfastly championed conservative candidates, not a slick political adviser for hire with a financial interest in what this community can give her.

I suggest that our wise community members discount anything negative coming from her “professional political consultant opponent” as pathetic attempts to draw attention from her obvious community inaction. I am not running for re-election due to a significant health issue. I can say with confidence that there is no better dedicated, smart, hard-working, ethical person to serve in Place 1 than Lea Lashley."

Sharon Caldwell
Heath City Councilwoman, Place 1

04/22/2025

Happy Early Voting! The Lea Lashley for Heath City Council, Pl. 1 team is out at City of Heath, TX City Hall 8am to 5pm Tuesday to Friday. Come make your voice heard!

04/20/2025

Thank you to our friends and family who made it out to the Heart of Heath 5K this Easter weekend! We love to see our supporters -- especially our teachers, first responders and students -- represent the Lea Lashley for Heath City Council, Pl. 1 campaign!

04/20/2025

Thank you to our friends and family who made it out to the Heart of Heath 5K this Easter weekend! We love to see our supporters -- especially our teachers, first responders and students -- represent the Lea Lashley for Heath City Council, Pl. 1 campaign!

04/20/2025

Neighbors, we believe in transparency in our local elections. It's crucial to know who is funding the campaigns of those seeking to represent us on the City Council.

Recent findings have raised concerns about those running, including my opponent and the funding of her campaign. Here's what we've learned:

Cindy Horne owns Battlefield Consulting Inc., a Virginia-based campaign consulting firm that specializes in connecting candidates and "political action committees" (PACs) to fund campaigns
Campaign finance reports indicate that Cindy Horne paid herself $2,000 in consulting fees for her own campaign
There are indications that Horne's campaign may be significantly funded by an undisclosed out-of-state PAC from Virginia
These facts raise important questions:

Where is the majority of Horne's campaign funding coming from and why?
What influence, if any, do these out-of-state entities have on her decisions if she's elected?
Why isn't Horne being more transparent about her campaign finances?
As residents of Heath, we deserve to know who is making attempts to influence our local elections. We urge Horne to fully disclose the sources of campaign funding and any connections to out-of-state organizations.

My campaign is 100% funded by neighbors and friends like you.

Let's protect the integrity of our local democracy. Demand transparency!

See Campaign Finance Reports: https://www.heathtx.com/living-in-heath/heath-votes/

04/15/2025

Honored to announce that my campaign for Heath City Council, Place 1 has received the endorsement of City Councilman Brent Weaver - and the only candidate running for Place 1 who is supported by all four sitting members of Heath City Council.

These leaders know what it takes to serve our community, and their support is a testament to my commitment to preserving Heath's character, enhancing our safety and infrastructure, and empowering every voice in our city.

Like them, I believe in:

- Preserving our community’s character by advocating for responsible development that aligns with our Comprehensive Plan.
- Ensuring the efficient growth of our public safety services.
- Elevating citizen voices with transparent communication and decision-making.

Together, we can build a stronger, safer, and more connected Heath. I'm ready to serve as your neighbor on the City Council!

04/08/2025

Why Lea Lashley for Heath City Council, Place 1?

The answer is clear: I am not simply joining the fight; I am already in it -- and as your neighbor, I've advocated for all of us in Heath since I moved to the community 7 years ago. As we've had conversations together over the past months, we continue to talk together about the same things: maintaining our community's charm as Heath continues to grow. As your neighbor, I share these concerns. Many of you have voiced worries about high-density development and the impact of big-box (or other non-desirable) retail - and for the past 7 years as a resident, I've made my voice heard at our City Council and Planning & Zoning meetings to ensure we carefully curate and approve development that aligns with Heath's Comprehensive Plan.

Here's a snapshot of what I've already accomplished with the city:

* Preserving Our Open Spaces: a Charter PATH member since 2019, I'm committed to our Comprehensive Plan’s guidelines for low-density development and protection of our open spaces. This was a critical element missing from the Perry Property development proposal and in a number of proposals like it that have come before the city. I opposed it. Project like PATH will help us maintain our city’s unique character, prevent overcrowding, and ensure that high-density development isn't your next-door neighbor here in Heath.

* Smart, Sustainable Development: I support development that enhances our community without compromising its character. This means encouraging unique, local retail areas that reflect Heath’s identity and meet our needs, while ensuring any new construction complements our existing aesthetic and avoids the pitfalls of generic, cookie-cutter development. I've spoken on this many times since 2018, loudly opposing rezoning, including when the corner of Heathland Xing/Laurence road (a corner lot adjacent to two residential homes) was up to be rezoned as commercial development.

* Infrastructure That Keeps Pace: I'm advocating for proactive planning to ensure our infrastructure (roads, parks, etc.) evolves smartly alongside our growth. This will help us maintain our high quality of life, high property values, and ease traffic & safety concerns. Check out any of the City Council or P&Z meetings over the last few years to hear me regularly speak on the record, covering topics from water to traffic & safety concerns impacting Heath. This is an active part of my ongoing work with the city that also reflects what I'm hearing from you, my neighbors, as I talk with you today.

* Community Input Matters: I’m committed to transparent communication and consider your insights essential for responsible decision-making. Together, we can shape Heath's future while staying true to our values and protecting it from unwanted development.

--> The biggest difference between myself & my opponent: these things aren't vague campaign promises. I'm not joining any fight. I'm already doing the work, advocating on behalf of our community. I know what it takes to elevate voices that impact real decisions and change across P&Z and City Council.

Whether it's opposing developments that threaten our community character or pushing for essential infrastructure improvements, I continue taking concrete steps to protect Heath's future today, not just on Election Day. As your Place 1 council member, that's the kind of proactive leadership I'll continue to provide.

Early Voting starts April 22 -- will I see you out there to cast your vote for your neighbor?

03/28/2025

For anyone on top of the misinformation floating around about our legal fees and how Heath is spending them and where they're being drawn from... Here's what is really going on:

The City approved budgets in 2023/2024 and 2024/2025 with NO funding for street maintenance. (Link to approved budget, jump to page 35 for streets division: https://www.heathtx.com/wp-content/uploads/FY2025-Adopted-Budget-De-Minimis-Rate-10.07.2024.pdf) and instead focused on state taxes for major roadway improvements & repairs + developers to handle infrastructure improvements. There was never budget allocated to this, so claims of re-direction or re-appropriation are false.

Legal budget jumped from about $250k/year in 2021 to $1.25M in 2023/2024 and stabilized to $400k/year in this current budget (Budget page 46). This spend was likely due to fighting the Trilogy Development in a neighboring community, both by suing the jurisdiction of McLendon-Chisholm AND by suing the developer. (Suing the community was a dumb lawsuit to fight, BUT the silver lining is that it slowed down this development as to not put more strain on the infrastructure in Heath before improvements could come into place. This development requires a MUD & access to critical infrastructure from Heath AND competing for resources with Heath.) Legal fees DID increase. Did it come out of the budget for roads, etc. no.

It may be time to start spending our local dollars on streets due to the challenges we are seeing within our local structure. This is something I’d like to focus on during our next budget cycle. It’s key in these situations to be fiscally conservative in these areas.