City Council Member District 3
Source: results.enr.clarityelections.com
What does this office do?
- Passing city laws, called ordinances
- Approving the city budget
- Funding city services, such as police, trash, and parks
Affects: Environment and Public Health, Government Efficiency, Government Spending Reduction,
Candidates:
Nonpartisan
Brock Skinner is a business development manager at an emergency communications company with a background in sales and marketing. He emphasizes faster emergency response, safer streets, funding core city services, and responsible municipal spending.
Nonpartisan
Eduardo "Lalito" Romero is a University of Texas at Austin student who has previously described his occupation as university staff. His stated priorities include reducing taxes and investing in city infrastructure.
Nonpartisan
Gavin Fernandez Jr. is an East Austin community organizer who worked for a Travis County commissioner from 1991 to 1994 and coordinates National Voter Registration Day locally. He emphasizes affordability, contract audits, mental-health resources, and equitable public services.
Jose Velasquez
In runoffNonpartisan · Incumbent
Jose Velasquez is the Austin City Council Member for District 3. The council sets city policy, adopts the budget and tax rate, and oversees city departments.
Records: Government Efficiency 2 for, Environment and Public Health 1 for
Neha Shah
In runoffNonpartisan
Neha Shah is a software builder, bilingual children's-book author, and startup entrepreneur. She emphasizes affordability, environmental protection, spending transparency, immigrant safety, small businesses, digital access, displacement prevention, and dignity for unhoused people.
Sources: austintexas.gov2