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The city is making the Palmer Events Center a greener place thanks to $7.5 million in federal stimulus money that officials are using to make municipal buildings more energy efficient. The city announced this week that it has begun…
Questions about who should manage the renovations to the first two floors of a newly acquired high-rise were among the issues that led Travis County commissioners to hold off on a decision about the project on Tuesday. The county…
Capital Metro is on track to implement the recommendations of a recent Sunset Commission report, Sen. Kirk Watson assured the Sunset Advisory Commission yesterday. The audit of Capital Metro came at Watson’s request, and his office continues to work…
A new committee is taking a run – the third in the last six years – to try and fix what ails the city’s long-standing system of designating homes historic landmarks. Austin’s Historic Landmark Ordinance has been labeled as…
Two weeks ago the Council’s Health and Human Services Committee met to begin reconsidering the way the city engages in social service contracts. After that meeting, HHS Director David Lurie envisioned that committee members would spend their time this week…
Depending on the interest group, the two finalists for the job of general manager of Austin Energy either are experienced candidates who can lead the utility through future growing pains or aren’t qualified enough to play in the big leagues…
More than 100 people packed a room at Austin Energy headquarters Wednesday evening to meet and ask questions of the two remaining finalists in competition to become the city-owned utility’s next general manager. Larry Weis, general manager and chief…
It’s a given that Travis County officials will consider cost when selecting one of three potential designs for a central downtown campus. But there are a host of other factors county commissioners will take into account in the coming…
This City of Austin is in line for another manager. The city is now on the lookout for a chief service officer, a city executive who would “work under the direction of the mayor’s office to develop and implement a…
Members of the city’s Electric Utility Commission have received a fuller picture of Austin Energy’s FY2011 budget. According to the utility’s senior vice president of finance and corporate services, Elaine Hart, her department has managed to trim the latest version…
If the city can ink an agreement with the YMCA, North Austin residents will get a bigger, better recreation center than originally planned in 2006, when voters approved issuing bonds for the project. That’s the way city staff members…
Council Member Bill Spelman split the difference on the case at 1307 Newning, overruling the Planning Commission recommendation but dividing the staff proposal for zoning and future land use map on the South Austin property. The duplex at 1307…
