# :fan: 2018 City Council Candidate Questionnaire

**URL:** <https://forum.atxfriends.org/t/fan-2018-city-council-candidate-questionnaire/2912>\
**Category:** General Austin\
**Created:** [February 24, 2018, 6:11pm UTC](https://forum.atxfriends.org/t/fan-2018-city-council-candidate-questionnaire/2912 "2018-02-24T18:11:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![alyshalynn](https://forum.atxfriends.org/user_avatar/forum.atxfriends.org/alyshalynn/32/50_2.png) [@alyshalynn](https://forum.atxfriends.org/u/alyshalynn)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2018, 6:11pm UTC](https://forum.atxfriends.org/t/fan-2018-city-council-candidate-questionnaire/2912/1 "2018-02-24T18:11:50Z")

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Council candidates are starting to ramp up and announce their campaigns, and the reason for the season is civic engagement.

FAN will eventually hold a vote of the membership on 2018 candidate preferences and positions on possible bonds, or other issues before the City Council.

But a large part of our goals before that step would be educating the public and our members by asking each candidate some questions about their platforms and topics slated for Austin’s future.

In 2016 [our questionnaire included these queries](http://www.atxfriends.org/austin-city-council-candidate-questionnaire/):

> 1. What policies will you advocate to accommodate and welcome the full abundance and diversity of people who aspire to live in Austin’s high-demand neighborhoods?
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> 2. How will you resolve policy issues and cases that come before you when the wishes of some incumbent residents in a neighborhood conflict with the interests of other residents and the larger, city-wide community?
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> 3. What policies and approaches will you advocate to promote neighborhood improvement, and avoid neighborhood protectionism, as Austin changes and grows
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> 4. What policies will you advocate to address the increasingly unaffordable housing, transportation, and utility costs that are economically segregating our neighborhoods

This is [the post where we discussed the content](https://forum.atxfriends.org/t/fan-city-council-candidate-questionnaire-was-fan-city-council-endorsements/529/) of those questions. But the highlighted points we settled on were:

> [@FAN City Council Candidate Questionnaire (was FAN City Council Endorsements)](https://forum.atxfriends.org/t/fan-city-council-candidate-questionnaire-was-fan-city-council-endorsements/529/28):
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> As discussed above, my guiding principles in selecting the questions were:
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> 1. Grounded directly in the FAN vision.
> 2. Allow for free-form responses.
> 3. Minimize the number of questions.
> 4. Ask questions that complement, and don’t duplicate, what other organizations are asking in their questionnaires.

### What new or differently worded questions should we add to this round?

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**Author:** ![chris78701](https://forum.atxfriends.org/user_avatar/forum.atxfriends.org/chris78701/32/596_2.png) [@chris78701](https://forum.atxfriends.org/u/chris78701)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 2:47pm UTC](https://forum.atxfriends.org/t/fan-2018-city-council-candidate-questionnaire/2912/2 "2018-09-12T14:47:24Z")

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Bumping this thread.

The Board intends to send questionnaires out soon. Please let us know if you have any ideas or questions that are important to you.