Amanda Rodriguez
TX · San Marcos City Council, Place 6
Amanda Rodriguez, a lifelong San Marcos resident, has served on the City Council since 2024 and is a former state legislative director and board president of Centro Cultural Hispano de San Marcos. Her stated priorities are affordability and infrastructure that supports responsible growth.
Where Amanda Rodriguez stands, based on their records
Supports
Environment and Public Health (4 records), Public Safety and Crime Control (1 record), Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties (1 record),
Opposes
Government Spending Reduction (3 records)
Track record
Track record — Environment and Public Health
Environment and Public Health · 4 support
Proposed a zoning change, adopted 6-1, that allows large power plants only in heavy industrial zones and only with a permit approved by the council.
June 16, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: legistar2.granicus.com
Voted to prohibit data centers in all San Marcos zoning districts; the amendment passed 4-3.
June 16, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: communityimpact.com
Proposed banning data centers in all zoning districts, which failed 3-4. She then won approval of rules barring data centers from using drinking water for cooling (7-0) and requiring them to sit 1,000 feet from homes and schools (6-1).
April 21, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: legistar2.granicus.com
Voted against changing land rules to allow a data center on about 200 acres on Francis Harris Lane in August 2025. When the request returned, she cited data center water use and seconded a motion to deny it, which passed 5-2.
February 17, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: legistar2.granicus.com
Track record — Government Spending Reduction
Government Spending Reduction · 3 oppose
Moved to keep the city property tax rate at 65.15 cents per $100, above the no-new-revenue rate, raising $7.1 million more in property taxes. She also voted for the $406.6 million budget; both passed 7-0.
September 15, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: legistar2.granicus.com
Voted for a 3.4% water and wastewater rate increase and moved a stormwater rate increase to pay for flood work. Both passed 5-2 on first reading.
September 1, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: legistar2.granicus.com
Proposed a change to the police and fire union contract extensions asking for public comment and more openness in future talks; a softened version passed 6-1. The extensions, with raises for police and firefighters, passed unanimously.
November 5, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: communityimpact.com
Track record — Public Safety and Crime Control
Public Safety and Crime Control · 1 support
Proposed a change to the police and fire union contract extensions asking for public comment and more openness in future talks; a softened version passed 6-1. The extensions, with raises for police and firefighters, passed unanimously.
November 5, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: communityimpact.com
Track record — Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties · 1 support
Urged the council to reject adding 19 police license plate reader cameras from Flock, citing how the data was used. The council denied the expansion 5-2.
June 3, 2025Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: universitystar.com
Track record — Civil Rights
Civil Rights · 1 support
Voted against new summer weekend entry fees at Rio Vista Park, raising concerns that the ID rules for resident exemptions could shut out residents without ID. The fees passed 6-1 on first reading.
March 31, 2026Supports Civil Rights
Source: legistar2.granicus.com
Track record — Public Infrastructure
Public Infrastructure · 2 support
Voted for a 3.4% water and wastewater rate increase and moved a stormwater rate increase to pay for flood work. Both passed 5-2 on first reading.
September 1, 2026Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: legistar2.granicus.com
Moved to raise the fees new development pays for water and sewer capacity, from $3,801 to $14,519 for water and $2,684 to $11,161 for sewer. She opposed delays, saying they shifted costs to ratepayers. The increase passed 6-1, phased in by March 2027.
September 1, 2026Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: legistar2.granicus.com
Track record — General
General · 5 records
Moved to merge the council's homelessness and criminal justice reform committees into one safety committee, which she joined. The motion passed 6-0.
July 7, 2026
Source: legistar2.granicus.com
Voted against a seven-story student housing project at 325 North Comanche Street, saying it conflicted with the downtown plan. The permit and height exception both passed 5-2.
June 16, 2026
Source: legistar2.granicus.com
Voted for a city law protecting tenants' right to organize without landlord retaliation, and argued against delaying the final vote. It passed unanimously.
October 21, 2025
Source: universitystar.com
Co-proposed and voted for a council resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza; it failed 5-2. Gov. Greg Abbott had threatened to cut state grants to the city if it passed.
May 7, 2025
Source: tpr.org
Won the San Marcos City Council Place 6 seat on Nov. 5, 2024, beating Maraya Dunn 13,187 to 7,358 (about 64%) in the official count.
November 5, 2024
Source: legistar2.granicus.com
Past race Amanda Rodriguez ran in:
- San Marcos Mayor · November 3, 2026 · San Marcos city, Texas