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Marjorie "Margie" Burciaga
Margie Burciaga was a 2014 candidate for District 10 of the Austin, Texas City Council.
Campaign themes
2014
On her campaign website, Burciaga highlighted the following issues and provided bullet points on how she would address them.[1]
Affordability
- "City homestead exemption-largest city without tax relief for residents."
- "Tax apartments with lower rates - renters deserve relief too."
- "Zero line accounting - every line item of budget must be approved not just changes."
Utilities
- "Cut corporate utility subsidies which are driving up residential costs."
- "Eliminate non-utility items - ex mini fire dept in Austin Energy when we have AFD."
- "Robust rebates for all residents."
- "Provide incentives for homes & businesses to use reclaim water."
- "Fix leaky underground infrastructure - city loses millions of gallons of water daily."
Transportation
- "Reduce housing & transportation costs- from 63% of income to ideal national avg of 40%."
- "Add Comprehensive bus line - immediate solution & cheaper than rail."
- "Improve traffic congestion - add HOV lanes, timed on-ramps, re-timed traffic lights."
- "Private/Public collobaration- MoPac natural corridor for light rail that can extend to neighboring cities, reduce traffic north through south Austin, reduce tax payer burden."
Public safety
- "Reduce crime - increase police patrols, make more arrests, improve conviction rate."
- "Implement best practices for wildland fire mitigation."
- "Prevent wildfires - implement "best practices" for wildland fire mitigation."
- "Avoid loss of homes - Make fire house on 360 a priority."
- "Fund 911 call center - improve response time."
- "Improve arrest booking facility-add arrest agents, safe lives, protect citizens and property."
Elections
2014
- 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 | |||
Recent news
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See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Margie Burciaga, "Issues," accessed September 29, 2014
- ↑ City of Austin, "2014 Election Calendar," accessed May 14, 2014
- ↑ City of Austin, "2014 Candidate List," accessed September 4, 2014
- ↑ Travis County Clerk, "2014 Unofficial Election Results," accessed November 4, 2014
- ↑ Travis County Clerk, "2014 Runoff Election Results," accessed December 16, 2014
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