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Is audit trouble for Austin Energy employee?
The City Auditor’s Integrity Unit has found evidence that Austin Energy employee Steven Salinas solicited and accepted employment from developers over whose projects he had discretionary authority in his position as a lead electric distribution designer. However, while auditors found…
City Hall • By Jo Clifton • Jun 2, 2017
'Middle skill' workforce plan aims to stabilize area's poor, vulnerable residents
Austin and Travis County leaders’ focus on growing the region’s middle-class economy was spotlighted Thursday with the announcement of a multiyear effort to train local workers for a growing demand for so-called “middle skill” jobs. The release of the Master…
Austin • By Chad Swiatecki • Jun 2, 2017
Overriding staff reservations, Commissioners Court OKs affordable housing project
The Travis County Commissioners Court on Tuesday gave its blessing to a low-income apartment project despite reservations from staff and a nonprofit that advocates for fair housing. At question was the proposed Del Valle 969 Apartments, a development planned to…
Housing • By Caleb Pritchard • Jun 2, 2017
Updated: City of Austin joins San Antonio in lawsuit against 'sanctuary cities' law
By Stephanie Federico The City of Austin has filed a legal challenge to the state’s new “sanctuary city” law, joining a suit filed Thursday by the City of San Antonio. “Elected leaders across the state are following the leadership of…
Texas State Legislature • By KUT News • Jun 2, 2017
Here's what we learned about requests from ICE to pick up Travis County inmates
Drunken driving. Property theft. Possession of a controlled substance. These are some of the crimes for which the Travis County Sheriff’s Office did not honor requests from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to detain suspected undocumented immigrants past their sentences…
Public Safety • By Audrey McGlinchy, KUT • Jun 1, 2017
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Central Health nominee stirs up policy questions
The chair of the Central Health Board of Managers strongly suggested that City Council may be causing problems for the board by appointing a new member with ties to a major hospital. In an interview with the Austin Monitor Tuesday,…
Public Health • By Jack Craver • Jun 1, 2017
More questions than answers for Council on CodeNEXT
City Council members are still having a hard time understanding exactly what CodeNEXT, the proposed overhaul of the city’s land development code, will mean for the city. That was made clear at a public hearing Wednesday, during which a number…
Land Development Code • By Jack Craver • Jun 1, 2017
Brownfield grants provide $300,000 to clean up East Austin
Potential brownfield properties in East Austin will be eligible for remediation efforts in the coming years thanks to two grants from the federal Environmental Protection Agency totaling $300,000. The grants, which were announced Wednesday, will be available for use beginning…
Environment • By Chad Swiatecki • Jun 1, 2017
Commissioners Court looking for a bond bundle that is just right
Travis County is taking the Goldilocks approach to planning a potential bond package to put before voters this November. On Tuesday, the Commissioners Court voted unanimously to instruct the Citizens Bond Advisory Committee to cobble together three separate bonding scenarios:…
Travis County • By Caleb Pritchard • May 31, 2017
Agent of change revamp to add hotels could delay vote on proposal
Austin’s much-debated policy proposal to address conflicts between music venues and nearby developments appears to be getting a makeover and a possible delay from a planned early June vote by City Council. That was the feeling of venue owners, city…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • May 31, 2017
Visit Austin contract included lobbying Council
When the CEO for the Austin Convention and Visitors Bureau, recently renamed Visit Austin, signed his employment contract with the organization last May, the contract included an addendum directing him to develop a strategy for lobbying City Council to enlarge…
