Mayor Nick Stanley

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Nick Stanley

Nicholas A Stanley

Nicholas Adam Stanley

UPDATE: APR 2, 2024: Mayor Nick Stanley was recently quoted in a article published by the Weatherford Democrat . The entire article can be found here and is copied and pasted below. Source: Weatherford Democrat.

MAR 29, 2024 - ALEDO – City council members Thursday voted down a petition by landowners to leave the city’s Extraterritorial Jurisdiction.

The vote comes following litigation filed last year by the city of Grand Prairie and numerous others who argue Senate Bill 2038, which allows for such petitions, is unconstitutional and otherwise illegal.

This is for the legislator, a judge or the courts to decide. Not a Mayor of 5,500 people. The Mayor and his council does not have he legal authority to make this decision. 

SB 2038 allows for a petition by “more than 50% of the registered voters of an area” or a “majority in value of the holders of title of land in an area,” to force a city to release the entire area from its ETJ, or it will be released by operation of law. SB 2038 does not require that the 49% be notified of the petition to remove their property from their ETJ.

“Our city council is committed to maintaining a high quality of life for every family in every part of Aledo, and that includes taking a stand against legislation that threatens our community like SB 2038,” Aledo Mayor Nick Stanley said.

We at RNS are completely lost on this comment. We cannot begin to understand how SB2038 affects our quality of life. With Mayor Nick Stanley loosing this land it may affect his personal quality of life and his personal finances as he can no longer dictate to the owners "it would be in your best interest to use XYZ for your commercial development". You can guess who XYZ is. Mayor Nick Stanley has lowered our quality of life in Aledo by canceling and repurposing money for previously approved Council projects. 

An ETJ is a designated buffer area located just outside a city’s boundary that, with landowner approval, may be used for potential growth and future service boundaries. Under SB 2038, property owners can have not only their land removed from a city’s ETJ, but also other property owners’ land removed without their knowledge or consent.

“Perhaps the most concerning part of SB 2038 is that it allows a razor-thin majority of landowners to remove property from an ETJ for the property owner’s interests without regard to public health and safety,” Stanley said.

We at RNS do not consider "more than 50% of the registered voters of a an area" to be a "razor-thin majority". To us it seems that it is more that 50%, a majority. We are additionally perplexed on risk to health and safety, maybe the developer is moving to a city that has a police department and can provide safety. Maybe if the Mayor did not give his employers and business partners 50% of the property tax back (TIRZ) or not absorb the library we could afford a police department.

The Aledo council, in June of 2022, approved a development agreement with the 1,800-acre mixed-use development along the Fort Worth/Aledo border, allowing the voluntary annexation of 238 of those acres into the city.

The city of Fort Worth had plans to bring water and sewer services to 321 acres, but their developmental role ended in September after the property owner chose to leave the city’s control, according to the Fort Worth Report.

Communities in a city’s ETJ are under limited municipal jurisdiction, meaning a city has authority over planning services like water, sewer and transportation. Those areas are also eligible for annexation through the Texas Local Government Code.

The author of SB 2038, State Sen. Paul Bettencourt, R-Houston, argued the new law gives property owners a way out of an ETJ if they believe the city isn’t properly serving them.

Stanley, when reached by phone by the Weatherford Democrat Friday, said the parties are in a waiting game until a court decision.

There is no "waiting game", by operation of law, the property owners have left Aledo's ETJ. 

The Aledo Mayor and City Council do not have the legal authority to over rule State Law. By simply filling a lawsuit does not stop state law. If this was the case, file a lawsuit stating that your property taxes are unconstitutional. Lets see what happens if you don't pay your property taxes. It is delusional for them to believe that they have this type of power. Which, frankly is part of the problem, them and there false belief of power. 

But he echoed comments voiced by Fort Worth Assistant City Manager Dana Burghdoff, who described property owners now being in position to “city-shop” by cherry-picking which city they want to work with.

“And that’s exactly what it is,” Stanley said.

We at RNS agree that the owners of property can now "City-shop". Does this not put the city in the position to put their best foot forward? To be competitive and to provide customer service? Our sources are telling us that our mayor was wasting these developers time and money by trying to cut a deal for his business partners?

As of Friday, the original lawsuit petition had been amended to include the cities of Bulverde, Clyde, Crandall, Denson, Denton, Hutto, Kaufman, Lockhart, McKinney, Navasota, Van Alstyne, Anna and Brownsville.

Many are discussing this article today, none have been have been in support of Mayor Nick Stanley. The best comment today - "Losers blame the ref's and winners say next!"

UPDATE: DEC 9, 2023: It appears that the City of Aledo has updated Mayor Nick Stanleys BIO and removed Fieldstone Solar Power Company, LLC as a place of employment. This is SIGNIFICANT as the owners of this company are Steven Slaughter and Patrick Beachner. Before and after screenshots are below. 

Known Business Holdings:

Rehab Warriors of Arlington, Inc. - FORFEITED Existence: MAR 11, 2023

Cana Energy Partners, LLC. - Voluntarily Dissolved: AUG, 03, 2021

Summit Land Services, LLC. - IN EXISTENCE

Blue Jack Resources, LLC. - ACTIVE

Stanley Oil & Gas, LLC. - ACTIVE

Known Employment:

Fieldstone Solar, LLC. - VP of Acquisitions

Blue Jack Resources, LLC. - Managing Partner/Owner

Volunteer: 

Mayor of Aledo - this is a non paying position. 

COG (Council of Government) - this is a non paying position. 

NOTES: Sources have reported to RNS that since becoming Mayor of Aledo they have noticed Mr. Stanley go on a spending spree. Specifically - purchased a new truck, purchased designer boots (he likes to show everyone), remodeled his home, designer cowboy hats and his neighbors cant help but notice how much he vacations now. Several sources report that he has taken the month of November off to travel. 

We find this odd as the Mayor's position is basically a volunteer position. 

We also find odd is his employment at Fieldstone Solar, LLC. Prior to him becoming Mayor no one had heard of the organization or seen any advertising, trucks, branding or testimonials. Allegedly what Fieldstone Solar, LLC. business is that they will buy large parcels of land (lets say 10 acres), place solar panels on them and then sell the power generated back to the power company. Wouldn't these be multi million dollar projects? Wouldn't someone heard or seen at least a project? Would there be some press? 

Fieldstone Solar, LLC. start date according to State Records is: 09/05/2019

We feel the same about Blue Jack Resources, LLC.  start date according to State Records is: 06/30/2020

According to the City of Aledo website, Mayor Nick Stanley works for Fieldstone Solar Power Company, LLC. as the VP of Acquisitions. This proves that his business partner Patrick Beachner and Stephen C Slaughter (allegedly former) are also his employer. According to state records Beachner and Slaughter are also tied to the Mayors admitted business Blue Jack Resources, LLC. as well as Fieldstone Properties, LLC., Abrazo Acquisition Group, LLC., 1882 Partners, LP. and 1882 Historic District, LLC. (formally known as 1882 Partners, LLC.). 

Mayor Nick Stanley went on record at the SEP 28, 2023 Regular City Council Meeting that Patrick Beachner IS a business partner and Stephen C Slaughter is a FORMER business partner. State records suggest the Stephen C Slaughter is STILL a business partner of the Mayor. 

The Mayor also went on record to The Community news that he only knew these gentlemen from being in the community. Clearly that is not true.