AUSTIN (KXAN) -- After Austinites overwhelmingly voted down Proposition Q, the city's tax rate election proposition, community groups and city leaders acknowledged residents have clearly lost faith in how the city is spending taxpayer dollars.

"We will not accept anything less than an independent audit of our city budget ... We all know where taxpayers are. The question is, has City Hall learned a lesson tonight? There's no education in the second kick of a mule," Save Austin Now co-chair, Matt Mackowiak, said on election night.

But it wasn't just vocal community groups asking the city to look at its spending. In his statement accepting the defeat of Proposition Q, Austin Mayor Kirk Watson also said he was invested in a performance review and Council Member Marc Duchen called for one as

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