SAVE AUSTIN NOW: Six Ways to Help Force External and Complete City Budget Audit
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Good Sunday morning --
We hope you had a truly wonderful Thanksgiving holiday.
As December begins, we now have JUST EIGHT WEEKS left to collect 25,000 signed petitions, validate them, and turn place a required external audit of the ENTIRE city of Austin budget on the May 2026 ballot.
It’s going to take a monumental effort to get there.
If you want to see an audit of the entire city budget, to reduce waste and duplication, uncover fraud and corruption, and most importantly, improve affordability and efficiency, we really do need your help.
Here are SIX easy ways to help RIGHT NOW:
1. EMAIL ME AND PRINT IT AT HOME: Email Matt (matt@saveaustinnow.com) and you have have the petition emailed to you. You can then download the petition, print it, fill it out legibly and sign it (11x17 or 8.5x11), and mail it in. There are five sections for signers so we can take up to five signatures from City of Austin residents.
2. REQUEST BY MAIL: Request a mailed petition (with return postage pre-paid) here. We will mail you a petition ASAP and it will have return envelope with postage paid.
3. REQUEST BY MAIL: -32,000 petitions are being mailed TODAY. We can add you to the list here.
4. LET US OFFER OUR PETITION AT YOUR BUSINESS: We have seven businesses that are letting us place clipboards with petitions to sign in person on the premise. We will collect each week. Please offer your business as an in person signing location here.
5. SIGN UP TO VOLUNTEER: Here’s the volunteer form, with options to help collect, help pick up, and help validate — on your own schedule.
6. DONATE TO OUR EFFORT: We need your financial support.
Given that we have VERY limited time to do this (ten weeks), we are relying on mail as our primary collection method.
We are mailing a cover letter, the petition (2 pages, 11x17, and an envelope with return postage paid). This costs roughly $1.50/each. The more we mail, the faster we hit the 25,000 we need. We then must self-validate, which we do by recruiting volunteers and paying workers to do this.
WAYS TO SUPPORT US
You can securely contribute here.
You can make a check to “Save Austin Now PAC” and mail it to:
807 Brazos
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