Audrey "Tina" Cannon

Tina Cannon was a 2014 candidate for District 10 of the Austin, Texas City Council.

Campaign themes

On her campaign website, Cannon highlighted the following issues:^[1]

Property taxes

Excerpt: "I propose the creation of a City Homestead Exemption. The new exemption would be for residential property that is occupied as a primary residence by a qualified taxpayer. The exemption would be for 20% of accessed value up to the first 300k valuation phased in over 4 years. So for example, if your property were valued at $300,000 and you qualify for the 20 percent LOHE exemption you would pay county taxes on your home as if it were valued at $240,000."

Water

Excerpt: "Water conservation and water revenue/costs are at an imbalance. Currently, the City of Austin Water Utility is looking at a $40 million dollar budgetary shortfall and will look to increase your water rates as an answer. We as a city have done a relatively good job on conservation, hitting many of our conservation targets. There is more work to be done with conservation. For example, reuse and implementing grey water options. I will work with our environmental leaders to continue the path set with our city’s conservation efforts. The decrease in our city's usage of course results in a decrease in revenue for the utility. As revenues fall short, historic trends have in our past leadership has called for rate increases as a way to stabilize revenue. Studies show that when there is an unexpected decline in sales volume and the drop does not correspond to reduction in costs, then the utilities revenues will struggle to recover costs. Continuing to rely solely on variable portion of fees may vary well be increasing the future revenue vulnerability."

Emergency preparedness

Excerpt: "Emergency preparedness is woefully in need of attention. Just think back to the wildfires of Bastrop and Steiner Ranch. By the grace of God, the fires did not engulf more than they did. Our emergency staff performed at a high level with the resources available to them and did everything possible to prevent even more devastation. We have to have a comprehensive emergency preparedness plan that incorporates all the ESD’s, FD, law enforcement and EMS providers across the State, County and City, working together to prevent and respond effectively to disasters. All of our professionals and volunteers need the training and resources to actively work a disaster but even more importantly to work to prevent the threat of wildfires."

See also: Austin, Texas municipal elections, 2014.

The city of Austin held elections for city council on November 4, 2014. The candidate filing deadline was August 18, 2014. Because of redistricting and term limits, there was no incumbent for District 10.^[2] The candidates were Marjorie "Margie" Burciaga, Audrey "Tina" Cannon, Amanda "Mandy" Dealey, Sheri P. Gallo, Matthew L. Lamon, Jason W. Meeker, Robert D. Thomas and William L. Worsham.^[3] Because no candidate received more than 50 percent of the vote in the general election, the top two vote-getters - Dealey and Gallo - faced each other in a runoff election on December 16, 2014.^[4] Gallo was the winner.^[5]

Austin City Council, District 10, 2014
Candidate	Vote %	Votes
Mandy Dealey	30.7%	8,566
Sheri P. Gallo	22.9%	6,403
Margie Burciaga	4.6%	1,298
Tina Cannon	3.8%	1,072
Matthew L. Lamon	3.1%	877
Jason W. Meeker	6.3%	1,769
Robert D. Thomas	18.9%	5,276
Bill Worsham	9.5%	2,666
Total Votes		18,216
Source: Travis County Clerk - 2014 Official Election Results

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