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Travis County will dish out about $4.5 million more to cover health insurance costs next year under the final plan the commissioners court approved Tuesday. A preliminary projection for 2011 puts total health claims costs at about $47 million.…
Members of the City Council got an early look at the tax impact of a potential 2012 bond election at a meeting of their Audit and Finance Committee on Tuesday. Deputy Chief Financial Officer Greg Canally offered a simplified snapshot…
Waterfront Planning Advisory Board Chair Jim Knight warned his colleagues last week that their days of brief meetings would soon be over. The board, created by Council, has two simultaneous tasks: First, it advises the two existing land use…
If it wasn’t already apparent, the Urban Renewal Board’s actions last night appeared to anticipate the inevitable demise of the tri-party agreement and the potential dissolution of the board itself as an entity. In fact, those were the items…
With access to a local high school at stake, the City of San Marcos has pushed ahead with the initial stages of construction along its section of FM 110 without a complete federally mandated environmental assessment. That early action could…
A hearing and public comment session on a proposed agreement to protect the Jollyville Plateau Salamander provided a glimpse into how both city officials and the environmental community plan to use the plight of the tiny amphibian to further their…
City Manager Marc Ott has selected Lucia Athens of Seattle to be its first Chief Sustainability Officer. Athens is a former Austinite who holds a master’s degree in Sustainable Design from the University of Texas. Locally, she’s served as…
Austin Fire Chief Rhoda Mae Kerr has written a memo to her department announcing her intention to cancel what would have been a pilot program for the use of Medical Response Units (MRU) in the city. The move came just…
On Thursday, City Manager Marc Ott announced his choices in the search to replace Roger Duncan as General Manager of Austin Energy. All three are from small California utilities and two of the three are operated under the Southern California…
Dueling resolutions for moving forward with a new recycling facility are slated to appear on next week’s City Council agenda. One resolution, sponsored by Mayor Pro Tem Mike Martinez and Council Members Randi Shade and Laura Morrison would direct…
Five of the top 10 projects—and 11 of the top 25—that scored highest in the City of Austin’s ranking of needed mobility projects as identified by officials and the general public would not be funded by a proposed $85 million…
The Board of Adjustment voted Monday to clarify last month’s rejection of a so-called remodeling project in a west campus neighborhood. In so doing, it moved to declare that property owners had to leave the basic four walls of their…
