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Council members float mobility bond alternatives
Three members of City Council have floated two separate alternatives to Mayor Steve Adler’s $720 million mobility bond proposal. On Monday, Council Member Ann Kitchen’s office posted on the Council Message Board a draft resolution for a significantly pared-down vision…
Transportation • By Caleb Pritchard • Jun 15, 2016
Legal battle over Shoal Creek PUD intensifies
A few months ago, residents of Austin’s Shoal Creek neighborhood sued to stop a massive new development from going up. Now that legal battle is getting more complicated. Twenty homeowners filed a lawsuit in district court in April over a…
Courts • By Syeda Hasan • Jun 15, 2016
Advocates push for permanent animal cruelty prosecutors
The Travis County District Attorney’s Office has assigned two prosecutors to handle animal cruelty cases after a family and animal law attorney made the case for a special animal cruelty prosecutor to the Animal Advisory Commission last month during citizens…
City Hall • By Vicky Garza • Jun 15, 2016
Post Prop 1, city begins community conversations about citizen petitions
In a dark room usually reserved for musical performances in South Austin’s Strange Brew coffee shop, four Austin residents met on Monday to talk about the process of citizen petitions — the most recent of which resulted in Proposition 1…
City Charter • By Audrey McGlinchy, KUT • Jun 14, 2016
Downtown Austin Alliance targets homelessness
The Downtown Austin Alliance has launched a new pilot program aimed at tackling the glaring problem of chronic homelessness in Central Austin. The Homeless Outreach Street Team, or HOST program, hit the streets on June 1. Its small roster is…
Austin • By Caleb Pritchard • Jun 14, 2016
Council seeks to reverse decision on Hays County emergency service district
It wasn’t just Austinites who were inconvenienced by the absence of Mayor Steve Adler and two City Council members during last week’s Council meeting. Several dozen families who live in a 5-acre area of Hays County that is located within…
City Council • By Jack Craver • Jun 14, 2016
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Austin Monitor Radio: 2016 transportation bond?
Austin Monitor freelancer Caleb Pritchard hosts Austin Mayor Steve Adler’s communications director Jason Stanford for a conversation about a potential 2016 City of Austin transportation bond. Sponsored by Austin Water. Post is embedded below. Clarification: At about 16 minutes and…
City Council • By Caleb Pritchard • Jun 14, 2016
Reporter's Notebook: Cactus Rose, mobility plans and... Benghazi?
Communicant bounced from “kangaroo court”…Something unusual happened at Travis County Commissioners Court last week. For the first time in months, the weekly segment of the agenda set aside for public communications was actually taken advantage of by residents with specific…
Reporters' Notebook • By Austin Monitor • Jun 13, 2016
In poll, residents reveal Adler is best of Austin, transportation worst
A poll commissioned by the Austin Monitor with the help of sponsors shows that more people approve of Mayor Steve Adler’s job performance than that of City Council as a whole — with 51 percent of respondents endorsing Adler’s leadership,…
Austin • By Elizabeth Pagano • Jun 13, 2016
Ethics Review Commission overhauls complaint requirements
The process for bringing a complaint before the Ethics Review Commission will become more complicated, but hopefully more transparent, if City Council passes a recommendation to overhaul the commission’s ethics complaint requirements. Commissioners want to address common and long-running problems…
City Hall • By Cate Malek • Jun 13, 2016
Shoal Creek PUD remains in limbo for now
Discussion surrounding the Grove at Shoal Creek Planned Unit Development continues to dominate some of the city’s boards and commissions. Last week, the Zoning and Platting Commission illustrated that point by taking an hour to postpone the case. Commissioners voted…
Planning • By Elizabeth Pagano • Jun 13, 2016
Mayor's absence causes Council headaches
City Council can conduct its business without the mayor and two Council members. But a tedious morning session on Thursday proved that it’s not necessarily easy. The absence of Mayor Steve Adler and Council members Delia Garza and Ann Kitchen,…
