AUSTIN — Austin City Council Member Ann Kitchen is running unopposed to represent District 5.
KVUE News submitted a list of four questions to Kitchen and asked for her position on the bonds and propositions before voters on the November ballot. Kitchen did not respond.
Ann Kitchen - Incumbent (unopposed)
1. Why are you running for the Austin City Council?
2. What do you believe are the most pressing issues for the people in your district?
3. What do you think is the key to addressing affordability in Austin?
4. How can Austin address its growing traffic and transportation challenges?
For the next set of questions, please tell us if you are For or Against the following propositions and why.
- Prop A: $250 million for affordable housing
- Prop B: $128 million for libraries, museums and cultural centers
- Prop C: $149 million for parks and recreation
- Prop D: $184 million for flood mitigation, open space and water quality protection
- Prop E: $16 million for health and human services
- Prop F: $38 million for public safety
- Prop G: $160 million for transportation infrastructure
- Prop H: Amend the city charter to state the term of service and process for removal of members of the Planning Commission would be determined by ordinance.
- Proposition I: Amend the city charter to make non-substantive corrections to grammar, typographical errors, capitalization, punctuation and sentence structure to the city charter and remove language that is obsolete.
- Prop J: Shall a City ordinance be adopted to require both a waiting period and subsequent voter approval period, a total of up to three years, before future comprehensive revisions of the City's land development code become effective?
- Prop K: Without using the existing internal City Auditor or existing independent external auditor, shall the City Code be amended to require an efficiency study of the City's operational and fiscal performance performed by a third-party audit consultant, at an estimated cost of $1 million - $5 million?
Candidate did not respond to our questions.
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