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| Name | Leslie Pool |
| Address | 1101 West 34th Street #507
Austin, Texas 78705, United States |
| Email | info@lesliepoolforaustin.com |
| Website | [Link] |
 Facebook | Leslie-Pool-for-Austin-City-Council-District-7 |
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| Info | Leslie Pool is a long-time resident of Austin. She arrived newly married in 1980, and over the last 34 years has been actively involved in making Austin the best it can be. She’s an advocate for preserving established Austin neighborhoods and supporting local small business – the places that make Austin unique and bring special character to our neighborhoods. Leslie knows Austin.
In the mid-1990s, Council Member Beverly Griffith appointed Leslie to the first of a succession of City commissions. The range is wide and varied – Arts, Downtown, Telecommunications, Water/Wastewater – and reflects her commitment to being involved in the Austin community and her long standing dedication to her hometown.
She chaired the Seaholm Reuse Planning Committee in 1997-98. The goal of the Reuse Planning Committee was to learn two things from Austinites: Should the Seaholm Power Plant building be saved for public use and if so, what new purpose or use did they envision for it? The answer to the first was a resounding yes! (including the five flue stacks that give Seaholm its iconic profile) and when final votes were tallied, the public’s vision for reuse was for it to become an arts venue or a science and tech museum.
Leslie was also appointed to the Downtown Development Advisory Group, a late-90s effort convened by then-Mayor Kirk Watson to kick-start economic and social activity downtown. This effort led to Council adopting a policy of providing a percentage of affordable housing in new downtown residential construction.
In 1997, County Judge Bill Aleshire appointed Leslie to the Travis County Citizens Bond Advisory Committee. She served on the Bond Accountability Committee that was formed shortly after passage of the bonds in 1998. She was one of County Commissioner Karen Sonleitner’s appointees to the 2004 County Bond Advisory Committee. Leslie served on the City of Austin’s 2012 Bond Task Force as an appointee of Council Member Kathie Tovo.
Leslie currently serves on the executive committee and is treasurer of LiveableCity, a local sustainability research and advocacy non-profit whose mission is to address the long-term social, environmental, and economic needs of the people of Austin. Its guiding principles recognize both the complexity and interconnectedness of the issues the City faces and reflects the belief that every Austin resident deserves access to an affordable home, a good education, a decent job, available transportation, adequate healthcare, and other basic elements that make up a livable community.
In 2012, Leslie helped found and convene the Bull Creek Road Coalition, an affiliation of seven neighborhoods – Allandale, Rosedale, Brykerwoods, Ridgelea, Oakmont Heights, Westminster Manor, and Highland Park West/Balcones Area – concerned over the future sale and development of state-owned property along Bull Creek Road and above Shoal Creek. She serves as the Coalition’s Design Principles Chair. As a member of the Coalition’s Legislative Committee, Leslie worked with key Texas Senate and House members, including the Travis County Delegation, in the 83rd Legislative Session (2013) to pass legislation that requires the state to work with neighborhoods when leasing state land for commercial development.
Leslie currently works for Travis County as Executive Assistant to Carlos B. Lopez, Constable Precinct 5, where she directs a state grant project.
Leslie attended graduate school at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas in the mid-career masters degree program, and was a member of Leadership Austin‘s class of 1999-2000.
Leslie and Will Grover live in Rosedale. Her daughter, Emily, graduated from Anderson High School in 2006 and the University of North Texas in 2010. Emily is a department manager for Tory Burch Madison Ave in New York City, and lives in Brooklyn. Born and raised in San Antonio and a 1979 graduate of UT-Austin, Will works in the Imaging Department at Seton Medical Center Austin.
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