After months of discussion and work by city staff, the Elgin City Council voted to dis-annex a portion of the land on the southwest side of town that had been annexed in 2015, while beginning the process to provide wastewater services to the portion of land staying in the city. In 2015, the City of Elgin annexed about 212 acres between the railroad tracks and South State Highway 95 in an apparent strategy to counter Bastrop’s northward expansion. According to Texas state law, the city must provide all available city services to the annexed area within five years; in this case,