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Sallie Alcorn is currently serving her second four-year term on Houston City Council. As an at-large council member, she works on initiatives and policies affecting the entire city – city finances, public safety, flood mitigation, street and sidewalk improvements, transportation, and quality of life.
Sallie is currently focused on improving the city’s financial outlook. She holds monthly Budget and Fiscal Affairs Committee meetings on topics related to increasing operating efficiencies, exploring cost-saving and revenue-generating measures, promoting transparency, and planning for long-term obligations. During the city’s budget season, she presides over 23 departmental workshops and prepares hundreds of questions about line-item spending and performance measures. She continues her annual public budget survey and holds budget town hall meetings to encourage citizen participation. Also in her second term, Sallie is working to expand efforts to divert food waste from city landfills. She started a pumpkin composting program which is in its fourth year and most recently collected over 25,000 pounds of Halloween and Thanksgiving pumpkins from participating Houstonians. Sallie also hopes to increase awareness of opioid misuse and overdose, a problem which took 403 lives in Harris County last year. Further, she continues to advocate for Houstonians affected by noise and other nuisance and criminal activities stemming from bad-actor nightclubs and bars.
Sallie represents the city on regional issues on the Houston-Galveston Area Council (H-GAC), where she served as the 2024 board chair. She also serves on H-GAC’s Transportation Policy Council which directs federal and state transportation funding to mobility projects across the eight-county region.
Prior to running for office, Sallie was a longtime City Hall staffer. She helped develop the city’s comprehensive financial policies and orchestrated five years of budget hearings. She was heavily involved in initial Harvey recovery efforts and obtained grant funding to advance green stormwater infrastructure initiatives. She assembled and managed a task force to tackle redevelopment and flooding policies, spearheaded the city’s Adopt-A-Drain Program, and worked with council members to identify neighborhood drainage projects.
Sallie has a long history of serving her community. She has worked with offenders as a volunteer facilitator for Bridges to Life, a restorative justice prison program aimed at reducing recidivism rates. She serves on the board of Family to Family Adoptions and on the advisory boards of the San Jose Clinic and the Houston Maritime Center and Museum. Sallie previously served on the boards of Holocaust Museum Houston and the Houston READ Commission.
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