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At-Large Council, Position 5

Sallie Alcorn

At-Large Position 5 · elected citywide · in her second term

What this office does

At-large members sit on the same City Council and do the same job as district members — enacting the city's ordinances, adopting and altering the annual budget, confirming the Mayor's appointments, and voting on bonds, contracts and spending over $50,000. The difference is who elects them: five of the 16 seats are elected at-large by all voters of the city, so every Houston voter helps choose all five.

Source: City of Houston — City Government

In her second four-year term citywide. States her focus as city finances, public safety, flood mitigation, streets and sidewalks, transportation, and quality of life; championed outcome-based budgeting in her first term.

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Now
At-Large Council Member, Position 5, currently serving her second four-year term; chairs the Council's Budget and Fiscal Affairs Committee and represents the city on the Houston-Galveston Area Council, where she served as 2024 board chair. (Houston City Council At-Large Position 5 — About the Council Member ↗)
Before
Previously chaired the Council's Regulatory and Neighborhood Affairs Committee. (Houston City Council At-Large Position 5 — About the Council Member ↗)
Work
Longtime City Hall staffer before council, where she helped develop the city's financial policies, oversaw budget hearings, and worked on Hurricane Harvey recovery task forces on redevelopment and flooding policy. (Houston City Council At-Large Position 5 — About the Council Member ↗)

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Election watch

No filing on record yet for 2027.

Contact & office

Mail
900 Bagby, City Hall Annex, 1st Floor, Houston, TX 77002

Verified from the City of Houston directory. Office hours and town halls aren't published in our records yet.

What the record shows

Present at 33 of 33 council meetings the minutes place them on council (Oct 2025 – Aug 2026).

No absence recorded at roll call in these minutes. We have 40 meetings in total; the 33 counted here are the ones where the roll call names this member, so a seat taken mid-period isn't measured against meetings before it.

Recorded on 1338 of 1351 votes taken at those meetings.

The minutes note them absent on 13 individual votes.

What those votes were about

1058 decided items while they held the seat, by topic.

Utilities228
Contracts & spending219
Housing & zoning105
Taxes & budget101
Public safety86
Transportation78

Counted from the City Secretary's minutes. Where the minutes don't record a member either way, we don't guess. These are counts of what happened, not a judgment of it — and we publish no party-agreement figures for city council, which is elected on a nonpartisan ballot and decides most items on a near-unanimous consent agenda.

PASSED2026-08-25

The city council is being asked to officially accept the completed work on the Chelford City Diversion Package 2 project and authorize any final payment owed on the contract with Markel Insurance Company.

Individual vote recorded in official minutes

PASSED2026-08-25

The city is being asked to officially accept the completed waterproofing work done at the City Hall Annex Garage and authorize any final payment owed to the contractor, Restocon Corporation.

Individual vote recorded in official minutes

PASSED2026-08-25

The council approved up to $540,613.96 for the Houston Health Department to purchase Hepatitis C virus testing equipment and supplies from DiaSorin, Inc. through a federal cooperative purchasing agreement, with the contract running through November 8, 2030.

Individual vote recorded in official minutes

PASSED2026-08-25

The City Council is re-adopting the rules and criteria that govern when Houston can enter into tax abatement agreements, as required under a specific chapter of the city's municipal code.

Individual vote recorded in official minutes

PASSED2026-08-25

The City Council voted to deny SiEnergy Gas, LLC's request to raise natural gas rates in Houston, keeping the current rates in place.

Individual vote recorded in official minutes

PASSED2026-08-25

The city is setting aside $500,000 from its Public Health construction fund and amending an existing contract with Structure Tone Southwest LLC to manage construction at the Holcombe Lab Expansion Project.

Individual vote recorded in official minutes

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