Without a quorum, Gunter Mayor Karen Souther decided to hold a town hall instead to answer questions and hear feedback from the citizens.

“The citizens of this town have made it very clear for the last seven, almost eight months that we’re unhappy with this council, that we were unhappy with their actions,” one Gunter resident said.

If council members aren’t present, the city council cannot take action on any city matters, which means potentially delaying projects and costing the city thousands of dollars.

“We have big problems coming our way,” Mayor Souther said. “We can’t settle some things, we’re going to be devastated.”

A special election to replace all five members isn’t possible until March, but the city says due to deadlines, it likely wouldn’t happen until May.

However, Mayor Souther says that if they could get three council members to future meetings, they could replace them two at a time, preserving a quorum and allowing them to continue handling city business.

Gunter citizens are imploring their council members to do the right thing to help them get back to business.

“If they will come back here one more time, sit down and make one vote, people here will step up and fill those positions,” one resident said.

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GUNTER, Texas (KTEN) — The mayor of Gunter, Texas, will ask Gov. Greg Abbott to authorize an emergency election after the collapse of the city's government structure.

All five city council members handed in their resignations over the past two weeks.

"It's been officially accepted by operation of law, but they're still required to continue in their post until they're relieved," said interim City Attorney William Stevens.

Four of the five council members who quit have failed to show up for a series of emergency meetings to appoint their successors. Now there's no one left to do the city's business.Mayor Karen Souther said this is the only time anything like this has happened in the State of Texas, leaving her unsure about what to do next.

"If you are going to take this kind of heat in your own community and you're willing to damage this many people, there has to be a reason," she said.

So Gunter is at a political standstill until the city can hold a special election.

Nothing can be done until then.

"This is what our Texas Constitution says they shall do;  they're not doing it," Souther said.

She and Stevens said their next step will be to contact Austin for permission to hold an emergency election in May.