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Travis County Commissioners get most of the attention when it comes to making decisions for the county’s future, but more often than not the responsibility for carrying out those decisions falls to Transportation and Natural Resources Executive Director Joe Gieselman.…
A little more than month ago City Council voted to approve on first reading the rezoning of the East Block property on West Sixth Street over the objections of Council Member Laura Morrison. Last Thursday Council took up the rezoning…
City Manager Marc Ott, even a month ago, probably had no idea he would spend his annual review not only with Council members behind closed doors but also with speakers who would publicly criticize his treatment of the minority community.…
After months of pitched debate over the issue, the Council agreed Thursday to five-year extensions for the city’s franchise agreements with Austin Cab and Yellow Cab. With the action, Council members took the first steps toward aligning the deals that…
The City Council got a chance Thursday to publicly question its legal department about the series of steps that led to last week’s sudden release of the independent report associated with Officer Leonardo Quintana’s shooting of Nathaniel Sanders. As part…
A proposal to use development rights to preserve the buildings in downtown’s warehouse district got significant push back from property owners Tuesday night. The Planning Commission intended to discuss the preservation of the warehouse district as part of a…
The question at last night’s “corridor” forum was a whole lot clearer than the answer: Where should the city go from here with, or without, the tri-party agreement to redevelop East 11th and 12th streets in East Austin? Last night’s…
On Wednesday morning, city staff and representatives from Texas Disposal Systems (TDS) finally met for a complete version of the appeal hearing concerning the company’s disqualification from the city’s ongoing Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) request for proposal (RFP) process (see…
If all goes well, the popular Liz Carpenter Fountain will reopen in three weeks. But it will be closed two days per week and may need 40 to 50 labor hours per week in maintenance. “We plan to reopen…
Travis County commissioners have received their first look at projected revenue numbers for FY2011. Those figures include $336.6 million in property tax revenues. That number is, in turn, based on a projected 3.61-cent increase in the maintenance and operations (M&O)…
The current state of the City of Austin‘s budget is not nearly as bad as it is projected to be next year, according to the city’s budget office. In fact, the most recent budget forecast for FY2010 indicates a $2.1…
Another day, another apparent mistake from the Law Department in the handling of the KeyPoint Government Solutions report on the shooting of Nathaniel Sanders. According to city officials, after he received the KeyPoint report that claimed Officer Leonardo Quintana…
