Early voting for the May 7 election starts on Monday. Here's what's on the very short Austin ballot and our opinion on how you should vote.
Austin no longer elects its City Council in May , but city voters have a citizen initiative to consider as Proposition A. There are also two constitutional amendments that came out of the 87th Lege too late to make last November's ballot, and a proposition in Leander with regional implications. TheProposition 1: FORWe have often urged readers to vote against all constitutional amendments as a protest against this incredibly opaque, and thus often malign, way of changing state policy.
That's Prop 1, the ballot language for which is tragicomically tortured. The measure will eliminate an unintended consequence of the Lege's last attempt to shoulder as little as possible of the burden for paying for schools while also lowering property taxes, by compressing the school district tax rate.
Prop 2 is much more straightforward but is also just straight-up pandering. It's almost guaranteed to pass now that everyone's seen their new tax appraisals, but increasing the school district homestead exemption is the coward's way out of broad-based tax relief: Schools really need that money, and in many cases, this simply shifts the burden to renters.
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