San Angelo City Council member Harry Thomas has vowed to stay on the job despite an effort to recall him.
He released a statement issued by the city on Wednesday.
“I’ve served on the City Council for more than 10 years,” the District 3 City Council member said. “The entirety of that time has required doing thorough background research and factoring in public input when making choices that affect our community. I weigh every decision I’ve ever made on behalf of the 100,000 citizens in San Angelo. Every time I vote, I vote for all the citizens. I have no plans to resign from my position.”
Thomas and some other members of the city’s governing body have come under fire for their handling of a proposed data center proposed in San Angelo.
On Wednesday, data center opponent Richard Summers said he had submitted recall petitions on Thomas to to city clerk for official review and certification.
Summers said he believed “sufficient pre-verified signatures” were collected to meet the requirement of 47 signatures.
San Angelo City Clerk Barbara Stallworth said the recall petitions on Thomas had been received.
Under city charter rules, if the signatures are sufficient, Thomas must resign or the City Council must order a recall election.
San Angelo Data Center Citizen Coalition has spearheaded an effort to also remove San Angelo Mayor Tom Thompson and District 2 City Council member Joe Self.
Summers, who said in an email that he is no longer a formal part of SADCCC, said the effort to recall Thompson fell short with 1,877 of the 2,971 needed signatures obtained.
He said the recall effort on Self was still active.
City officials said in May 2025 that Skybox Datacenters of Dallas was looking to build a data center on city-owned land near U.S. Highway 67 North and City Farm Road.
Thompson said at the time, the project “could significantly increase tax revenue with minimal infrastructure requirements.”
Emergent Data Centers of Plano has since acquired the San Angelo project, according to Skybox Datacenters spokesman Haynes Strader.
This article originally appeared on San Angelo Standard-Times: Petitions in for San Angelo city councilor’s removal over data center
Reporting by Lynn Walker, Wichita Falls Times Record News / San Angelo Standard-Times
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