Checking the facts in the mayoral race

AUSTIN (KXAN) - With less than 24 hours before the election, all three candidates are saying everything they can to get your vote and they have said a lot already.

One Carole Keeton Strayhorn advertisement said: "Councilmen Leffingwell and McCracken voted to spend millions more than the city is bringing in."

This advertisement from Carole Keeton Strayhorn said Austin's budget is $137 million overboard. KXAN Austin News checked those facts with the city's budget office. They said $137 million dollars was already in the bank from the previous year, and said the city has a positive balance of $733 million. Strayhorn still said the city council dipped too far into reserves to balance the budget.

"They plunged into those reserves knowing that we're in a tough economic time," said Strayhorn.

Speaking of money, Lee Leffingwell and Brewster McCracken have gone back and forth about a new bond package in 2010 to pay for more road improvements beginning at the KXAN debate last month.

"There's a question about whether we would do as one of my opponents suggests, a bond election that would raise property taxes, or do a bond election in 2012 that would be at the end of our 2012 cycle," said the McCracken ad.

McCracken continues to say a 2010 bond package would raise property taxes in a tough financial time.

"Either we're going to have a zero dollar bond election, or it's going to raise taxes under Lee Leffingwell's plan," said McCracken.

Leffingwell claims that is a mischaracterization.

"I have said that I would only propose a transportation bond package that would not increase taxes," said Leffingwell.

The city's budget office said previously they have not done a final analysis to see whether a property tax increase is necessary.

There are many more things the candidates say. If you'd like to get a quick refresher on what the candidates say about Austin's top issues, watch below.