About City Council

City Council Place 1
Heather Chandler

City Council Place 2
Matthew T. Acock

Matthew Acock serves as President of Acock Consulting, L.L.C. and Vice President of Acock Engineering & Associates, L.P., a family enterprise serving the oil and gas industry for over three decades.
Prior to joining the family business, Matthew served as the Legislative Director and Chief Counsel for United States Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison in Washington, D.C. from 2005 to 2010, and was responsible for leading the Senator’s legislative activities and policy initiatives at the highest levels of government. 
Matthew is credited with many legislative accomplishments, including securing tax relief for Texas taxpayers and industries, as well as successfully negotiating a complex legislative solution to a long-running dispute in North Texas involving two of the nation’s largest air carriers.
Matthew also played a key role in Senator Hutchison’s amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in the landmark gun rights case District of Columbia v. Heller, where Sen. Hutchison led 54 fellow Senators and 250 Members of the U.S. House of Representatives to join in urging the Supreme Court to uphold the Second Amendment by striking down the D.C. gun ban.
Matthew participates in many industry-affiliated and charitable organizations, including service as Vice Chairman of the Make-A-Wish Foundation of the Texas Gulf Coast and Louisiana. Matthew has also served on the Board of Directors of the Federal Bar Association, where he served as Chair of the Younger Lawyer’s Division.
Matthew holds a J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law and graduated summa cum laude with a B.B.A. in Management from Texas A&M University, where he was a Company Commander in the Corps of Cadets and Executive Office of the Ross Volunteer Company.
Matthew has lived in Hill Country Village since 2013 with his wife Kelle and his two young boys.

City Council Place 3
Frank Rivas

Frank Rivas was born and raised in San Antonio with a family heritage that can be traced to the first settlers of San Antonio.

Frank graduated from Antonian College Preparatory High School. He earned a Bachelors of Arts with Honors in Government from The University of Texas at Austin and a Juris Doctor form the St. Mary’s University School of Law.

He is an attorney with over 45 years of experience spanning public service, private practice and corporate counsel. He began his legal career as a prosecutor with the Bexar County D. A. He transitioned to private practice where he became a partner in a large San Antonio law firm focused on business and insurance litigation. Subsequently, he joined State Farm’s Corporate Law Department as the founding Managing Attorney for its local Staff Counsel office. He led that office for 31 years focused on insurance defense until his retirement. He remains an active member of the Texas State Bar and San Antonio Bar Association.

He has served in several volunteer positions in support of the Bar. These include acting as Special Counsel for the State Commission on Judicial Conduct, and Panel Chair for the local State Bar Grievance Committee, as well as serving on other committees for the San Antonio Bar Association. His service has included Brighton School board member, NEISD Bond Committee member, coaching CYO teams, and Antonian Alumni Association president.

Frank and his wife Pamela have lived in Hill Country Village since 1992 and raised 3 children here. Frank enjoys hunting, gardening and volunteering.

City Council Place 4
Gregory Blasko

President of Greg R. Blasko, CPA, PC a professional corporation specializing in individual, business, trust and estate Federal income tax matters.

Greg has been licensed in the State of Texas as a Certified Public Accountant since 1981. He previously was a Tax Manager at the international accounting firm of Arthur Andersen and Company.

He received his Master of Professional Accounting from the University of Texas, Austin, receiving the Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence; his Bachelor of Science in Theoretical Mathematics from the University of Houston and his Teaching Certification from Texas Southern University.

His work history includes Research Assistant in the Department of Neurophysiology at Baylor College of Medicine, High School Mathematics and Spanish teacher in the Houston ISD, Instructor in the Mathematics Department of the University of Texas, Austin, before obtaining his CPA.

Greg has lived in Hill Country Village since 1981 and has raised his three children, Sean, Chris & Denise in the same house at 205 Hill Country Lane. He attended San Jose and St. Lawrence elementary schools and La Salle and McCollum High Schools here in San Antonio.

He has been an active member of the HCV Zoning Commission, serving many years as Chairman; a member of the EDC; a current Place 4 member of the HCV City Council.

Greg formed a Texas not for profit entity, Accountants Without Borders/Comptables Sans Frontieres, which provides free of charge accounting services to charitable entities in foreign Countries. To date, free accounting services have been provided in India, Sri Lanka and Zambia.

Greg’s hobbies include traveling, fishing, gardening, playing guitar, and of course his 4 grandchildren.

City Council Place 5
Allison Francis
Mayor Pro-Tempore

Allison Francis is the Vice President of External Relations at The Center for Health Care Services (CHCS), the mental health authority for Bexar County. Opened in 1966, CHCS has an operating budget of $104 million and over 1,100 skilled and compassionate team members who help people find the solutions they need to live healthy and productive lives. CHCS provides treatment programs for mental health, substance use disorders and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities to children and families at 31 locations in Bexar County.
Allison joined CHCS in 2013 and is responsible for developing and implementing The Center’s marketing plans, communication strategies and branding activities. She also advances the legislative priorities of CHCS at the local, state and federal levels and oversees The Center’s 501 (c) 3 Foundation. Under her leadership, the External Relations Division manages all advertising, marketing, public relations, internal and external communications, community outreach, tours and volunteer activities at CHCS.
Allison has an extensive background in government relations, previously serving as the Manager of Local Government Relations with the San Antonio Water System and as Chief of Staff to two San Antonio City Council members and one Bexar County Commissioner. She has been actively involved with a wide range of nonprofit and civic organizations, and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the West San Antonio Chamber of Commerce (Acting Secretary), North East Education Foundation and The San Antonio Clubhouse.
A native San Antonian, Allison graduated from The University of Texas at San Antonio with a B.B.A. in Marketing. She is the proud mom of three children: Ryan (25), Austin (23) and Elizabeth (21), and has lived in Hill Country Village with her partner Kirk Francis since June, 2017. In her spare time, she enjoys cooking, gardening and spending time at her family vacation home in Rockport, TX.