Issue: Environment

Q The City of Austin Parks and Recreation Department faces $125 million in deferred maintenance each year, ranging from playground maintenance and aquatics needs to mowing and servicing trash and recycling receptacles. What would be your strategy for addressing this need?

Asked by Austin Parks Foundation

Q Ensuring equitable access to quality parks for all Austinites is a key priority for Austin Parks Foundation. How might you work as a decision-maker for both your district and the city as a whole to move the needle on equitable access to quality parks?

Asked by Austin Parks Foundation

Q What’s your favorite park in Austin? Why?

Asked by Austin Parks Foundation

Q What is your top environmental concern and how would you address it?

Asked by League of Women Voters Austin Area

Q As climate change and fast-paced growth proceeds in Austin, there is growing concern to both secure water supply for the future while conserving a finite resource for our region. Will you pledge to support an Austin future that prioritizes conservation, reuse, and local water supplies, and to oppose actions that would require pumping of groundwater in either the Edwards Aquifer or the Carrizo/Simsboro aquifers east of Austin beyond a sustainable level that matches rates of recharge? Rate your support on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the most support and 1 being the least.

Asked by IndyAustin

Q Do you support or oppose the Council’s recent resolution to encourage retailers and grocers to voluntarily continue to enforce the “Bag Ban”? How will you help educate citizens in your District on the importance of reusable bags and the negative impacts of plastic, and on other environmental issues in general?

Asked by Sierra Club – Austin Regional Group

Q Dripping Springs and private developers are proposing to dump treated sewage that will end up in Onion Creek and Barton Creek, respectively, and then in Barton Springs. How will you work with these entities to prevent degradation of water quality and develop a more environmental solution?

Asked by Sierra Club – Austin Regional Group

Q If an initiative to use water from the Carrizo-Wilcox aquifer is brought before Council, how will you vote? YES or NO

Asked by Sierra Club – Austin Regional Group

Q The Sierra Club’s Austin Regional Group supports the Watershed Protection Dept. recommendation that GSI water quality measures be required for new and re-development projects of more than 45% impervious cover. Will you support this? YES or NO

Asked by Sierra Club – Austin Regional Group

Q Will you work to lower the trigger for requiring water capture & reuse from the currently allowed ≳8000 square feet to 5000 sf (as recommended by the Integrated Water Resource Management Task Force)? YES or NO

Asked by Sierra Club – Austin Regional Group