Lake Travis - Westlake Voter Guide

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Shall a petitioned ordinance be approved to enhance public safety and police oversight, transparency and accountability by adding a new chapter 2-16 to establish minimum standards for the police department to ensure effective public safety and protect residents and visitors to Austin, and prescribing minimal requirements for achieving the same, at an estimated cost of $271.5 million-$598.8 million over five years?

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Shall the City Council be authorized to convey or lease approximately 9 acres of parkland currently used as the Central Maintenance Complex (CMC) located at 2525 S. Lakeshore Blvd. through a public bidding process, where the total value of the bid is equal to or greater than the appraised fair market value of CMC, in exchange for at a minimum: 1) at least 48 acres of waterfront land contiguous to an existing city park; and 2) the cost or construction of a new maintenance facility for the parks and recreation department on other city-owned land; and 3) partial or full funding for the removal of Fiesta Gardens’ existing maintenance facility and restoration of that land to parkland?•

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The reauthorization of the local sales and use tax in the City of Rollingwood at the rate of one-fourth of one percent to provide for maintenance and repair of municipal streets. The tax expires on the fourth anniversary of the date of this election unless the imposition of the tax is reauthorized.

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The issuance of bonds in the amount of $13,200,000 and the imposition of taxes sufficient to pay the principal of and interest on the bonds for a new City Hall and Police Building and related infrastructure.

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The issuance of bonds in the amount of $11,800,000 and the imposition of taxes sufficient to pay the principal of and interest on the bonds for street and drainage improvements to Camp Craft Road, Laurel Valley Road, Redbud Trail, Westlake Drive, Yaupon Valley Road and Terrace Mountain Drive.

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The abolition of the one-half of one percent (0.50%) additional sales and use tax for property tax relief; and the adoption of the local sales and use tax in the City of West Lake Hills, Texas, at the rate of one-half percent (0.50%) to provide for maintenance and repair of municipal streets.

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Ratifying the Ad Valorem Tax rate of $1.2301 per $100 valuation in the Lake Travis Independent School District for the current year, a rate that will result in an increase of 2.3 percent in maintenance and operations tax revenue for the district for the current year as compared to the preceding year, which is an additional $3,000,000.

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The issuance of $727,210,817 of bonds by the Leander Independent School District for school facilities, the necessary sites for school facilities, buses and vehicles and the imposition of a tax sufficient to pay the principal of an interest on the bonds. This is a property tax increase.

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The issuance of $33,298,077 of bonds by the Leander Independent School District for technology equipment and the imposition of a tax sufficient to pay the principal of an interest on the bonds. This is a property tax increase.

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The issuance of $11,662,346 of bonds by the Leander Independent School District for renovations to the performing arts centers and auditoriums at each high school campus and the imposition of a tax sufficient to pay the principal of an interest on the bonds. This is a property tax increase.

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The constitutional amendment authorizing the professional sports team charitable foundations of organizations sanctioned by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association or the Women's Professional Rodeo Association to conduct charitable raffles at rodeo venues.

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The constitutional amendment authorizing a county to finance the development or redevelopment of transportation or infrastructure in unproductive, underdeveloped, or blighted areas in the county.

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The constitutional amendment to prohibit this state or a political subdivision of this state from prohibiting or limiting religious services of religious organizations.

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The constitutional amendment changing the eligibility requirements for a justice of the supreme court, a judge of the court of criminal appeals, a justice of a court of appeals, and a district judge.

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The constitutional amendment providing additional powers to the State Commission on Judicial Conduct with respect to candidates for judicial office.

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The constitutional amendment establishing a right for residents of certain facilities to designate an essential caregiver for in-person visitation.

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The constitutional amendment to allow the surviving spouse of a person who is disabled to receive a limitation on the school district ad valorem taxes on the spouse's residence homestead if the spouse is 55 years of age or older at the time of the person's death.

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The constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to provide for an exemption from ad valorem taxation of all or part of the market value of the residence homestead of the surviving spouse of a member of the armed services of the United States who is killed or fatally injured in the line of duty.