{"id":360931,"date":"2026-07-04T11:48:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T11:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/360931\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T11:48:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T11:48:22","slug":"sunset-valley-to-hold-elections-for-council-mayor-sales-tax-increase-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/360931\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunset Valley to hold elections for council, mayor, sales tax increase | Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunset Valley residents will elect a mayor and three council members as well as\u00a0vote Nov. 8 on whether to implement a new sales tax increase.
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\nCouncil and mayor
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\nThe city will hold a general election Nov. 8 for the seats currently held by Mayor Rose Cardona, Council Member Mickie Powers and Council Member Walter Jenkins, whose terms are expiring. All three seats are for two-year terms, and the last day to file for a place on the ballot is Aug. 22.
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\nSunset Valley will also hold a special election on the same date for the seat held by Council Member Jeff Burdett, who resigned in July. The new council member will complete the remainder of Burdett’s\u00a0term, which will be one year.
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\nCouncil voted in late July to call for both elections on the ballot.
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\nSales tax increase
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\nA proposition was also added to the ballot to create a crime control district and to implement an eighth-of-a-percent sales tax increase, which will be used to fund new city police department facilities, City Administrator Clay Collins said.
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\n\u201c[The sales tax increase] would generate about $400,000 per year, and so that\u2019s rolled into all of our projections of planning for the new facilities,\u201d Collins said, noting the sales tax will be the same as Austin\u2019s if voters approve the ballot measure.
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\nWith the change, a shopper spending $100 would pay 12.5 cents in sales tax, he said.
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\nSunset Valley City Council heard a presentation July 19 on schematics and design for the proposed new facilities.
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\nMore information about Sunset Valley elections is available at www.sunsetvalley.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunset Valley residents will elect a mayor and three council members as well as\u00a0vote Nov. 8 on whether…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,662,128167,128166],"class_list":["post-360931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-mayor","tag-sales-tax-increase","tag-sunset-valley-to-hold-elections-for-council"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}