November 2024 General Election

<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">“Approving the ad valorem tax rate of $ 0.344445 per $100 valuation in County of Travis for the current year, a rate that is $0.025 higher per $100 valuation than the voter-approval tax rate of County of Travis, for the purpose of increasing access to affordable and high-quality child care and afterschool/summer programming and related services for low-income families and developing and administering related workforce and economic development programs. Last year, the ad valorem tax rate in County of Travis was $0.304655 per $100 valuation.”</span></p>

<p><span style="color: rgb(28, 28, 28);">If approved by voters, $439,634,000 in bonds will be issued for building, maintaining, and operating roads and turnpikes. A tax will be levied to cover the bond principal and interest.</span></p>

<p>Shall the City Charter be amended to provide that initiative elections and citizen-initiated charter amendment elections must be held on the next available November election date that occurs in an even-numbered year and that allows sufficient time to comply with other requirements of law?</p>

<p>Shall the City Charter be amended to clarify the meaning of the term “election” and to provide that the contribution and expenditure limits shall be modified each year by January 1st instead of with the adoption of the budget?</p>

<p>Shall the City Charter be amended to remove appointees and employees of the office of the city auditor from the classified civil service?</p>

<p>Shall the City Charter be amended to delete language requiring the City Council to determine its rules and order of business by ordinance?</p>

<p>Shall the City Charter be amended to ensure that city financial practices are consistent with generally accepted accounting principles, reflect current practices for appropriations for department-level work programs, and reflect best practices in contract execution authority and competitive bidding procedures consistent with state law for local government procurement, and also be amended to increase the annual amount of contracted expenditures the city manager may approve without Council approval?</p>

<p>Shall the City Charter be amended to make non-substantive corrections of typographical errors, punctuation, and sentence structure, and to change or remove language that is moot or is unenforceable because it has been superseded by state law or by a final court order?</p>

<p>Shall the City Charter be amended to remove the restriction that officeholders must wait until after leaving office in order to solicit and accept political contributions to pay unpaid campaign expenses or to reimburse campaign expenditures made from personal funds, and to impose contribution limits on such officeholders?</p>

<p>Shall the City Charter be amended to clarify that the Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission (ICRC) is independent of City Council control, allow the ICRC to review City districts after changes to the City’s boundary lines, provide an effective date for the redistricting plan adopted by the ICRC, increase the number of individuals in the pool of potential appointees to the ICRC, clarify the method and timing of filling vacancies on the ICRC, and allow City staff to communicate with the ICRC outside of a meeting as long as such communication is in compliance with the Texas Open Meetings Act?</p>

<p>Shall the City Charter be amended to remove the requirement that an individual must submit an affidavit to provide notice to the City of a claim of death, personal injury, or damaged or destroyed property, and to align the claim notice deadline with state law?</p>

<p>Shall the City Charter be amended so that the time frame for the automatic resignation provision for municipal court judges is the same as that provided in the Texas Constitution for other officials?</p>

<p>Shall the City Charter be amended to provide that the city council appoints and may remove the city attorney?</p>

<p>Shall the City Charter be amended to provide that a petition for an election to recall a City Council member other than the mayor must contain valid signatures of at least 15% of qualified voters of the respective Council district, instead of the current 10%, and to clarify that the affidavit on the recall petition must be signed by a petition circulator rather than by a person who signed the petition?</p>

<p>Shall the City Charter be amended to delete language providing that the City Council shall meet at least once each week?</p>

<p>“Ratifying the ad valorem tax rate of $0.9505 per $100 valuation in the Austin Independent School District for the current year, a rate that will result in an increase of 8.3 percent in maintenance and operations tax revenue for the district for the current year as compared to the preceding year, which is an additional $184,628,049.”</p>

<p>Shall an untaxed area in the City of Austin’s extraterritorial jurisdiction, containing 35 lots on approximately 96.9 acres of land on Menchaca Road south of Slaughter Lane, be released from the City of Austin’s extraterritorial jurisdiction and into unincorporated Travis County, with the result that the Area will no longer be governed by the City’s environmental and development regulations?</p>