ACTION ALERT: 28 Days Left for City of Austin Residents to Sign Petition to Require Regular, External, Performance Audits of the Entire City of Austin Budget (Including ALL homeless spending!)
PETITION UPDATE: 7,000 Signed Petitions Received with 28 Days to Go!
Our effort to place a Charter Amendment requiring regular, outside performance audits on the May 2026 ballot is making good initial progress, but the clock is ticking.
While only launching about on November 21 (and with Thanksgiving and Christmas in between), we have now collected 7,000+ (35%) of the signed petitions that we need. We have JUST 28 DAYS TO GO (!) before our HARD deadline of Feb. 1, 2026.
We have tried to make this as easy as possible, given the constraints the City puts on these efforts.
> We have now mailed more than 60,000 households (10,000 mailed 12/29/25) the petition (with postage paid in both directions). These mailers cost roughly $1.50/each.
> We have a REQUEST BY MAIL option on our website where you fill out your address, and we mail you the petition directly (same week as requested).
> You can download the petition on our SaveAustinNow.com website, print it, fill it out, sign it and mail it in.
> If you email matt@saveaustinnow.com, we will email you the petition as an attachment.
> We have recruited 16 (!) locations around town where you can sign IN PERSON any day of the week. List of locations here -- https://www.saveaustinnow.com/petition-signing-locations.
>> SUPPORT OUR AUDIT EFFORT <<
TAKE ACTION: WILL YOU MAKE SPECIFIC EFFORTS TO HELP US TODAY?
Ways to help RIGHT NOW:
1. SIGN THE PETITION IN PERSON: THERE ARE 16 AUSTIN LOCATIONS WHERE YOU CAN SIGN THE PETITION TODAY
We have 16 (!) locations all over Austin where you can go in person and sign the audit petition every single day at a time that’s convenient for you. Location list here -- https://www.saveaustinnow.com/petition-signing-locations.
WANT TO HELP? Offer your business as a location for audit petition signatures, please fill out this form here -- https://form.jotform.com/253334032080141.
2. REQUEST AN AUDIT PETITION BE MAILED TO YOU
As of late last week, we have now mailed more than 60,000 Austin households a copy of the audit petition. These are Austinites who have donated to us or signed a past petition, and as we raise more money, we will mail more petitions.
If you would like an audit petition mailed to your home (with return postage pre-paid) go here -- https://fagq35i4kx0.pro.typeform.com/audit?typeform-source=www.saveaustinnow.com. We will mail you a petition ASAP and it will have return envelope with postage paid.
3. SEND US AN EMAIL AND WE WILL EMAIL YOU THE PETITION AS AN ATTACHMENT AND YOU CAN PRINT IT AT HOME
Email Matt (matt@saveaustinnow.com) and we will email the petition to you as an attachment. 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 valid signers so we can take up to five signatures from City of Austin residents.
4. LET US OFFER OUR PETITION AT YOUR BUSINESS
We have 16 (!) businesses that are letting us place clipboards with petitions to sign in person on the premise. We will collect each week. Please consider offering your business as an in-person signing location here -- https://form.jotform.com/253334032080141.
5. SIGN UP TO VOLUNTEER
Here’s the volunteer form (https://form.jotform.com/matt.mackowiak/ATXaudit), with options to help collect, help pick up, and help validate — on your own schedule.
6. DONATE TO OUR EFFORT
We absolutely need your financial support.
With VERY limited time to qualify for the May 2026 ballot, 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 minimum of 20,000 valid signed petitions that we need. We then must self-validate, which we do by recruiting volunteers and paying workers to do this.
WAYS TO SUPPORT US
1. You can securely contribute here -- https://secure.anedot.com/save-austin-now-pac/externalauditnow?exitIntent=true.
2. You can make a check to “Save Austin Now PAC” and mail it to:
Save Austin Now
807 Brazos Street
Suite 306
Austin, TX 78701
3. If you wish to send a wire, please email Matt (matt@saveaustinnow.com).
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As we have said before, WE HAVE ONLY BEGUN TO FIGHT!
THANK YOU.
-Matt & Steven