Nancy Oates
Nancy Oates was a member of the Chapel Hill Town Council in North Carolina. Oates left office in 2019.
Oates ran for re-election to the Chapel Hill Town Council in North Carolina. Oates lost in the general election on November 5, 2019.
Oates completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2019. Click here to read the survey answers.
Elections
2019
See also: City elections in Chapel Hill, North Carolina (2019)
General election
General election for Chapel Hill Town Council (4 seats)
The following candidates ran in the general election for Chapel Hill Town Council on November 5, 2019.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Jessica Anderson (Nonpartisan) | 18.2 | 5,452 | |
| ✔ |  | Amy Ryan (Nonpartisan) | 14.8 | 4,418 |
| ✔ | Michael Parker (Nonpartisan) | 14.3 | 4,276 | |
| ✔ | Tai Huynh (Nonpartisan) | 13.2 | 3,960 | |
 | Nancy Oates (Nonpartisan)  | 13.2 | 3,936 | |
| Sue Hunter (Nonpartisan) | 13.1 | 3,926 | ||
| Renuka Soll (Nonpartisan) | 12.9 | 3,871 | ||
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.3 | 91 | ||
| Total votes: 29,930 | |||
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Campaign themes
2019
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Nancy Oates completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2019. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Oates' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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In my career in New York City, I worked in foster care and as a probation and parole officer. I've seen the challenges people have to overcome and how they make the best of limited resources. I bring that perspective to my work on council. The first time I went to a Chapel Hill Town Council meeting was as a community member. I had information I wanted council members to know before they made their decision. As I listened to the issues that came up, I realized that many of those decisions affect our quality of life. In 2009, I started a blog, ChapelHillWatch.com. Every week for the past 10 years, I've written about how council decisions impact your life. I bring that tenacity and commitment to my work on council. In making the transition from sitting in the audience to sitting on the dais, I went through a steep learning curve. Solutions seemed so much simpler when I was in the audience. Now that I'm on council, I can see there are no easy answers. I take community input seriously. People come to council meetings and wait hours for their 3 minutes to speak, because the issues matter to them. As a Town Council member, I must balance the different visions people have of what makes a good life. All of us want a good life. I want to shape our town to make it possible for people to live their version of a good life whatever that looks like to them.
- People who work in town should be able to live in town.
- I bring community voices to the decision-making table.
- We don't have to pit affordable housing against green space; we can have both.
Protecting green space.
Climate change emergency.
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See also
2019 Elections
External links
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