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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 34 of 34 council meetings the minutes place them on council (Oct 2025 – Oct 2026).

No absence recorded at roll call in these minutes. We have 47 meetings in total; the 34 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 1360 of 1374 votes taken at those meetings.

The minutes note them absent on 14 individual votes.

What those votes were about

1078 decided items while they held the seat, by topic.

Utilities231
Contracts & spending225
Housing & zoning108
Taxes & budget101
Public safety86
Transportation80

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.

PASSED2026-10-13

This ordinance sets the property tax rate for the City of Houston for the year 2026, establishing how ad valorem (property-based) taxes will be assessed, levied, and collected.

Individual vote recorded in official minutes

PASSED2026-10-13

The Administration & Regulatory Affairs Department recommends designating the 1200 block of Arlington Street as a Residential Parking Permit Area.

Individual vote recorded in official minutes

PASSED2026-10-13

The City Council is authorizing payment of recertification fees for Houston Fire Department firefighters to the Texas Commission on Fire Protection, totaling $381,513.00.

Individual vote recorded in official minutes

PASSED2026-10-13

The City Council approved up to $542,563.00 to buy one submersible pump and two waste activated sludge pumps from Pump Solutions, Inc. through a cooperative purchasing program.

Individual vote recorded in official minutes

PASSED2026-10-13

The city council is increasing the spending cap on an existing contract with Coit Cleaning & Restoration Services for pressure washing and paint restriping at Houston airports, raising the limit from $140,000.00 to $226,000.00.

Individual vote recorded in official minutes

PASSED2026-10-13

The City Council approved the issuance of special revenue bonds to fund terminal improvement projects for United Airlines at Houston's airport system. The ordinance also authorizes related lease amendments, trust agreements, and disclosure documents, and declares an emergency.

Individual vote recorded in official minutes

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