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This is an important detail about the Tract 110 concerns in Circle C. CM Ellis's office misled the HOA. Hard not to believe that was deliberate misinformation.

Someone please tell me when some on the council ever had credibility? The lack of performance for services is nothing new, yet all of sudden a concern. Could there be an election around the corner? Wasn't Ryan one for the nine "swooping down" on the freshly found $4.7 million released from TCAD after the property tax protest were resolved? YES.

This is the legacy that Council Member Paige Ellis will leave for Southwest Austin. A district coordinating with developers and misleading residents.

Austin city staff recommended maintaining or modifying all 133 nonprofit contracts reviewed for possible funding reductions next year, raising questions from City Council members and the mayor about accountability. For @statesman: statesman.com/news/article/a…

Two people killed in Austin overnight…one in East Austin, one in South Austin…less than an hour apart. Real neighbors. Real families. Mayor Watson and Congressman Greg Casar were fast to the cameras when it fit their politics. Where’s the press conference now? 🦗🦗🦗 Wilco is watching. Public safety shouldn’t be a photo op. I’m Theodore Schramm, running for Texas House District 136. I’ll keep pressing for leadership that shows up when our communities are hurting….not only when the cameras are friendly. #tx136 #cityofaustintx #traviscountytx #williamsoncountyTX

Look carefully at Prop G. This impacts petitions generated by the public. This is a NO for me. Having to wait for two years (Even Year ballot) is not acceptable for items to be voted on that were generated by a petition.

Let's break this down - you can't treat this ballot like a single yes/no: - The parks bond is the bait. - Props C, E, G, and H are the power grab. - Prop I is the only item that actually audits City Hall. Vote accordingly.

I am determined to stand up for taxpayers and to make government more transparent and accountable. Austin taxpayers have paid $1 billion in the Project Connect property tax approved in 2020, but no court has yet ruled whether the tax is legal or when ATP can use it to issue bonds. Considering the "Bait-and-Switch" that has occurred with the little light rail plan being worked on, voters should be furious they are still paying that tax.

This Thursday, September 24th 6 - 8 PM EverGreen Austin Forum Forum Schedule: South Austin Senior Activity Center 3911 Menchaca Rd. Hosted in the Multi-Purpose Room (signage to point in proper direction) Opening - 6:00 PM District 8 Introductions & EGA Questions - 6:10 PM - 6:30 PM District 8 Audience Questions - 6:30 PM - 6:35 PM District 5 Introductions & EGA Questions - 6:40 PM - 7:00 PM District 5 Audience Questions - 7:00 PM -  7:05 PM District 9 Introductions & EGA Questions - 7:10 PM - 7:30 PM District 9 Audience Questions - 7:30 PM - 7:35 PM Conclusion 8:00 PM Hope to see you there.

Q2. I would not vote for a budget that reduces the # of funded APD sworn positions because data shows APD is understaffed (e.g., officers working overtime; speed enforcement down 90%; 911 response times; investigation demand).

Q1. A thorough audit must occur & measures taken to reduce tax burden before considering any City property tax increase. This is why I support Prop I.

Austin's homeless housing scoring system was designed so that white people would score lower. Most homeless people in Austin who want housing go through a single waitlist run by ECHO, a nonprofit the city funds to manage the local homeless system. Each person answers an assessment, gets a score, and higher scores get housed first. A few years ago, ECHO concluded the old assessment was "artificially prioritizing white and cisgender people" and said the system needed to undo "white male supremacist culture." So it built a new one. The new assessment doesn't ask about race explicitly. Instead, ECHO tested possible questions and kept the ones that black and non-white clients answered "yes" to at statistically higher rates. Questions that didn't produce that gap were dropped. ECHO's own explanation states the result plainly: "Black and Brown people will consistently score higher than white people and thus be connected more consistently to resources." Austin spends about $51.5 million a year on homelessness, including roughly $12 million on rapid rehousing, and this score means that who gets off the street first depends at least in part on their race.

Dear Texas House Member,Texas families are being deliberately robbed — and the thieves are using our own local governments to do it.Hard-working Texans — homeowners, renters, seniors on fixed incomes, and young families just trying to get by — are watching their property taxes skyrocket, their rents climb out of reach, and the cost of living explode. Why? Because Austin and other Texas cities have turned our public libraries into a backdoor ID system explicitly designed to give undocumented immigrants easier access to taxpayer-funded services they would otherwise be unable to use safely.This isn’t some innocent “library upgrade.” Austin officials attended the May 18, 2015 Municipal ID Conference in New York City where the official 2015 Municipal ID Program Toolkit (produced by Cities for Action and the NYC Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs) was handed out. That playbook openly declares the mission: help “particularly vulnerable residents such as undocumented immigrants” access city services, banks, health care, law enforcement, and libraries — while engineering the system to hide them from federal immigration authorities.The evidence is damning:No immigration status check whatsoever. Applicants simply show Matricula/consular IDs, foreign passports, or ITIN letters. No DHS lookup. Deliberate data shielding. The toolkit and Austin’s own 2022 planning documents demand minimal data retention, no copies of underlying documents, routing through nonprofits to dodge the Texas Public Information Act, and “maximizing anonymity.” They branded it an “Enhanced Library Card” specifically to exploit Texas library privacy laws and evade scrutiny. Services handed over on a silver platter. The card is now accepted as official photo ID by Austin Police, Austin Energy, Public Health, Municipal Court, Parks & Recreation, Animal Services, Central Health, and multiple nonprofits. Legal residents and citizens with driver’s licenses get almost nothing new — but undocumented immigrants who lack state ID suddenly gain full, fear-free access to our taxpayer-funded resources. Chicago’s 2025 ICE subpoena forced them to pause online municipal ID applications to protect the very data these programs were built to hide. Texas cities learned the same lesson. The human cost to Texans is heartbreaking. Austin’s city property tax levy has surged 121% since 2015 (from ~$474 million to $1.05 billion). Across Texas, the story is the same. The 2006 Comptroller study — still the most comprehensive official analysis — found undocumented immigrants impose net costs on local governments (hundreds of millions even after taxes paid), especially in education, health, and law enforcement — all paid for by your property taxes. AG Paxton estimated $855 million+ in annual state/local costs for hospitals, incarceration, and emergency Medicaid alone. Add in the post-2020 border surge of 11 million+ undocumented immigrants nationwide (1.6–2+ million in Texas) and the result is predictable: crowded schools, strained hospitals, overwhelmed services, skyrocketing rents, and families priced out of the Texas Dream they built.Cities hide behind “plausible deniability” because no study has ever broken out Enhanced Library Card usage or costs by immigration status — even though the entire program was engineered for this population.Enough. This is not compassion. This is a calculated policy that forces law-abiding Texas taxpayers to subsidize illegal immigration while deliberately shielding the recipients from accountability.

VOTE AYE ON PROP I NO ON THE REST.

Contact Austin City Council and tell them you want to cancel the recurring contracts for items 51, 52, 58, and 59. Tinyurl.com/emailaustincityc… $315,592 to Catholic Charities + Item 51 for legal and counseling work to stabilize immigration status, family reunification, work authorization, public benefits, and counseling + Item 59 so the agency can pay immigration application filing fees for low-income immigrants $539,280 to American Gateways + Item 52 for coaching people who represent themselves in court + Item 57 for screenings, consultations, workshops, pro se help, and legal representation for immigrants

Take back Austin. Demand an affordability and efficiency audit. Vote Aye on Prop I

I support Prop I, the charter amendment to require an audit of the City of Austin every 5 years & before a tax rate increase. We need to require accountability, efficiency, & transparency. As a former city employee, I saw & reported the inefficiencies & financial mismanagement.

The city’s own homeless success metric for District 8 shouldn’t be “more programs.” It should be: can you hike Violet Crown without walking through a dangerous camp, a fire pit, and a trash pile. That’s the bar Bowen set.

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Williamson County Precinct 1 is taking applications for constable. That’s the same precinct where Andrew Wimsatt sat on a park bench after visiting his mom — and got stabbed to death from behind in broad daylight. Constable is an actual peace officer job. Arrest power. Warrants. Patrol. The last one resigned. Commissioners will appoint the next one. Don’t appoint a mascot, virtue signaler, or activist. Appoint someone who treats “released after competency issues” as a public-safety failure, not a paperwork footnote. If you'll keep people alive in parks at 11 a.m., please apply. communityimpact.com/georgeto…