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Mayor enforces Council decorum rules, ejects two speakers from City Hall
After months of loud and often abusive interactions from a handful of regular Council attendees, Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell ejected two of the more recognizable irritants from Thursday’s meeting. The action came as questions arose over a recent limit on…
Uncategorized • By Michael Kanin • Aug 26, 2011
Panel recommends changes to Third Party Agreement
After nearly a year of deliberation, a city advisory committee has recommended changes to the Council’s Third Party Agreement Resolution. At a meeting of a Council committee on minority contracting, members of city staff and the Law Department gave their…
Uncategorized • By Josh Rosenblatt • Aug 25, 2011
Spelman skeptical of request for more officers in APD budget
As the city inches closer toward adopting its FY2012 budget, City Council Member Bill Spelman and Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo remain at odds over how best to fund the Austin Police Department. The two men continued their debate on…
Uncategorized • By Josh Rosenblatt • Aug 25, 2011
LCRA board delays decision on sale of water utilities
It will be at least another month before the Board of Directors of the Lower Colorado River Authority makes its decision about who will purchase its water and wastewater utilities. That news came on a tabling motion by Director…
Uncategorized • By Michael Kanin • Aug 25, 2011
Travis County Commissioners approve new precinct borders
The Travis County Commissioners Court on Tuesday finally approved the basic set of lines that it will use to redraw districts for its four geographically elected members. The move came on a 4-1 vote. Pct. 3 Commissioner Karen Huber…
Uncategorized • By Michael Kanin • Aug 24, 2011
LCRA consultant recommends Canadian firm for water utility purchase
The consultant hired to advise the Lower Colorado River Authority on the sale of its water and wastewater utilities recommended that the bulk of those facilities be sold to Vancouver-based management firm Corix. But the group also suggested that four…
Uncategorized • By Michael Kanin • Aug 24, 2011
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Capital Metro seeks bids for labor contract to replace StarTran
Capital Metro’s board of directors showed its cards on Monday, revealing exactly where they intend to draw the line with Amalgamated Transit Union 1091 as the board sends its major labor contract out for bid at the end of this…
Uncategorized • By Kimberly Reeves • Aug 23, 2011
Environmental Board issues protest vote over Heritage Tree Ordinance
Instead of a recommendation about whether the city should allow removal of a heritage tree at the site of a proposed downtown skyscraper, the Environmental Board last week opted to send a strong message about what they see as inadequacies…
Uncategorized • By Elizabeth Pagano • Aug 23, 2011
Board ponders DiverseArts’ plans for East 11th Street
With no developers in sight, a local arts organization looks to find a better use for the block along East 11th Street that contains the Victory Grill. Harold McMillan of the non-profit DiverseArts Culture Works wants the Urban Renewal…
Uncategorized • By Kimberly Reeves • Aug 23, 2011
Austin Energy wind-power projects back on agenda this week
A pair of contracts from Austin Energy that will significantly increase its use of wind-generated energy are back before Council this week after they were mysteriously pulled from last week’s agenda by city staff. The two agreements are to…
Uncategorized • By Bill McCann • Aug 22, 2011
Amendment delays Council vote on Downtown Austin Plan
Those hoping for a vote next week on the long-awaited Downtown Austin Plan, which has been in the works since 2005, may have to wait a little longer. A last-minute addition to the plan would retain amended CURE zoning…
Uncategorized • By Elizabeth Pagano • Aug 22, 2011
No Water Treatment Plant report expected this week
Combatants in the battle over the construction of Water Treatment Plant 4 will have to wait for as long as a week to debate the costs of mothballing that effort. That news came Wednesday evening in a memo from Assistant…
