The document summarizes a city council agenda item regarding canvassing the results of a special election held on November 3, 2020 in Alamo Heights, Texas. The election was on a proposition to issue $13.25 million in bonds for improvements to Austin Highway and Lower Broadway. Over 4,500 ballots were cast, with 3,587 votes for the proposition and 971 against. An ordinance is attached declaring the election results and that the proposition passed with a favorable majority.

1. CITY OF ALAMO HEIGHTS
ADMINISTRATION AND FINANCE DEPARTMENT
CITY COUNCIL AGENDA MEMORANDUM
TO: Mayor and City Council Members
FROM: Jennifer Reyna, Assistant to City Manager
SUBJECT: An Ordinance canvassing the returns and declaring the results of a Special Election
held on November 3, 2020
DATE: November 17, 2020
SUMMARY
An ordinance canvassing the returns and declaring the results of a Special Election held on
November 3, 2020.
BACKGROUND
On August 10, 2020, Council ordered a special election for the voters to consider the Proposition
A: the issuance of bonds in the amount of $13, 250,000 for the Austin Highway/Lower Broadway
Improvement Project. The City of Alamo Heights contracted Bexar County to conduct all election
activities. The election was held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020 for all precincts 3020, 3025 and
3026.
The official returns show 4,558 ballots cast.
POLICY ANALYSIS
Election Code 67.002 mandates a canvass of the election results to make officiate results. The
governing body is the local authority to canvass election results.
ATTACHMENTS
Attachment A – Precinct Tally Returns
Attachment B – Ordinance
Jennifer Reyna
Assistant to City Manager
Buddy Kuhn
City Manager

2. Attachment A
NOVEMBER 3, 2020 SPECIAL ELECTION
THE ISSUANCE OF BONDS IN THE AMOUNT OF $13,250,000 FOR THE AUSTIN
HIGHWAY/LOWER BROADWAY IMPROVEMENT PROJECT.
Early Voting
FOR AGAINST
Precincts
3020 1,173 299
3025 866 222
3026 737 220
Sub-total 2,776 741
Election Day
FOR AGAINST
Precincts
3020 73 20
3025 65 17
3026 40 16
Sub-total 178 53
Absentee/Mail In Ballots
FOR AGAINST
Precincts
3020 345 97
3025 135 49
3026 153 31
Sub-total 633 177
TOTALS 3,587 + 971 = 4,558

3. Attachment B
ORDINANCE CANVASSING ELECTION RETURNS
STATE OF TEXAS §
COUNTY OF BEXAR §
CITY OF ALAMO HEIGHTS §
WHEREAS, the City Council of the CITY OF ALAMO HEIGHTS, TEXAS (the "City")
ordered an election to be held in the City on November 3, 2020, on PROPOSITION A
hereinafter stated (the "Election"); and
WHEREAS, the City Council submitted to all residents, qualified electors of the City for
their action thereupon at the Election the following proposition:
PROPOSITION A
"Shall the City Council of the City of Alamo Heights, Texas be authorized to
issue bonds of the City, in one or more series, in the aggregate principal amount
of $13,250,000 for the purpose of financing the City’s portion of costs relating to
the Austin Highway/Lower Broadway Improvement Project (which is a multi-
modal street, sidewalk and drainage project being jointly funded by the Alamo
Area Metropolitan Planning Organization, the Texas Department of
Transportation, the San Antonio River Authority, the City, and possibly Bexar
County), including constructing drainage improvements and repairing, restoring,
relocating, improving, replacing, acquiring and constructing other utility facilities
and surface level improvements (such as sidewalk widening, bike lanes, street
lighting and landscape improvements) located along the Austin Highway/Lower
Broadway Improvement Project, with said bonds to mature not more than 25
years from their date of issuance, bear interest at such rate or rates as approved by
the City Council (provided that such rate of interest shall not exceed the
maximum rate per annum authorized by law at the time of the issuance of any
issue or series of the bonds), and be issued and sold in accordance with law at the
time of issuance, all within the discretion of the City Council; and shall the City
Council be authorized to levy and cause to be assessed and collected ad valorem
taxes on all taxable property in the City in an amount sufficient, within the limit
provided by law, to pay the principal of and interest on said bonds?"
WHEREAS, the City Council has investigated all matters pertaining to the Election,
including the ordering, giving notice, officers, holding and making returns of the Election; and
WHEREAS, the election officers who held the Election have duly made the returns of the
result thereof, and said returns have been duly delivered to the City Council; and

4. WHEREAS, the City Council hereby canvasses the returns of the Election, during which
the following votes were cast "For" and "Against" Proposition A stated above:
PROPOSITION A
For Against
Early Votes 2,776 741
Absentee 633 177
Election Day Votes 178 53
TOTAL 3,587 971
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF ALAMO HEIGHTS, TEXAS, THAT:
1. FINDINGS. The City Council officially finds and determines that the Election was
duly ordered; proper notice of the Election was duly given; proper election officers were duly
appointed prior to the Election; the Election was duly held; the City has complied with the
Federal Voting Rights Act and the Texas Election Code; due returns of the result of the Election
have been made and delivered; and the City Council has duly canvassed said returns, all in
accordance with law and the Ordinance calling the Election.
2. BOND PROPOSITION CANVASS. The City Council officially finds and determines that
the following votes were cast at the Election on the submitted PROPOSITION A by the resident,
qualified electors of the City who voted at the Election:
PROPOSITION A
3,587 FOR
971 AGAINST
THE ISSUANCE OF $13,250,000 OF BONDS FOR THE
PURPOSE OF FINANCING THE CITY’S PORTION OF
COSTS RELATING TO THE AUSTIN HIGHWAY/LOWER
BROADWAY IMPROVEMENT PROJECT, INCLUDING
CONSTRUCTING DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENTS AND
REPAIRING, RESTORING, RELOCATING, IMPROVING,
REPLACING, ACQUIRING AND CONSTRUCTING OTHER
UTILITY FACILITIES AND SURFACE LEVEL
IMPROVEMENTS (SUCH AS SIDEWALK WIDENING,
BIKE LANES, STREET LIGHTING AND LANDSCAPE
IMPROVEMENTS) LOCATED ALONG THE AUSTIN
HIGHWAY/LOWER BROADWAY IMPROVEMENT
PROJECT, AND LEVYING A TAX SUFFICIENT TO PAY
THE PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST THEREOF.

5. Attachment B
3. ELECTION RESULTS. The City Council officially finds, determines, and declares the
result of the Election to be that the PROPOSITION so submitted has received a favorable
majority vote in all respects and has carried.
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6. PASSED AND APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ALAMO
HEIGHTS, TEXAS AT A SPECIAL MEETING HELD ON THE 17th DAY OF NOVEMBER,
2020, AT WHICH MEETING A QUORUM MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF
SECTION 67.004(a) OF THE TEXAS ELECTION CODE WAS PRESENT.
Attest:
____________________________________ ____________________________________
City Secretary Mayor
City of Alamo Heights, Texas City of Alamo Heights, Texas
(SEAL)
Signature Page to Ordinance Canvassing Election Returns

7. Attachment B
CERTIFICATE FOR ORDINANCE
I, the undersigned City Secretary of the CITY OF ALAMO HEIGHTS, TEXAS (the "City"), hereby
certify as follows:
1. The City Council of the City convened in Special Meeting on the 17th
day of November, 2020,
at the designated meeting place, and the roll was called of the duly constituted officers and members of
said City Council, to wit:
Bobby Rosenthal, Mayor
Lawson Jessee, Council Member – Place 1
Wes Sharples, Council Member – Place 2
Blake Bonner, Council Member – Place 3
Lynda Billa Burke, Council Member – Place 4
John Savage, Council Member – Place 5
and all of said persons were present, except the following absentees:
_____________________________________, thus constituting a quorum in accordance with Section
67.004(a) of the Texas Election Code. Whereupon, among other business, the following was transacted
at said Meeting: a written Ordinance entitled:
ORDINANCE CANVASSING ELECTION RETURNS
was duly introduced for the consideration of said City Council. It was then duly moved and seconded
that said Ordinance be passed; and, after due discussion, said motion, carrying with it the passage of said
Ordinance, prevailed and carried by the following vote:
AYES: NOES: ABSTENTIONS:
2. A true, full and correct copy of the aforesaid Ordinance passed at the Meeting described in the
above and foregoing paragraph is attached to and follows this Certificate; said Ordinance has been duly
recorded in said City Council' minutes of said Meeting; the above and foregoing paragraph is a true, full
and correct excerpt from said City Council' minutes of said Meeting pertaining to the passage of said
Ordinance; the persons named in the above and foregoing paragraph are the duly chosen, qualified and
acting officers and members of said City Council as indicated therein; each of the officers and members
of said City Council was duly and sufficiently notified officially and personally, in advance, of the time,
place and purpose of the aforesaid Meeting, and that said Ordinance would be introduced and considered
for passage at said Meeting, and each of said officers and members consented, in advance, to the holding
of said Meeting for such purpose; and said Meeting was open to the public, and public notice of the time,
place and purpose of said Meeting was given, all as required by Texas Government Code, Chapter 551.
SIGNED AND SEALED the ___ day of November, 2020.
_____________________________________________
City Secretary
City of Alamo Heights, Texas
(CITY SEAL)