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Tarrytown subdivision delayed over questions about area flooding
A planned subdivision in Tarrytown has been delayed to allow Planning Commissioners to take a closer look at neighborhood concerns about flooding and learn more about what the city has planned for the area. City staff has determined that the…
Planning • By Elizabeth Pagano • Sep 14, 2015
Reporter's Notebook: The lighter side of budgets?
Tuesday morning quarterback… Despite Travis County Judge Sarah Eckhardt’s recent attempts to rein in off-topic monologues, the public communications portion of the Travis County Commissioners Court’s weekly meetings remains a source of colorful commentary. Last week, one rather notorious local communicant…
Reporters' Notebook • By Austin Monitor • Sep 14, 2015
Video: Kanin budget wrap, or the taco index, 9.11 (KXAN)
Monitor Publisher Mike Kanin heads to KXAN for his weekly Council wrap. This week: The budget. Clip is embedded below.
Videos • By Michael Kanin • Sep 11, 2015
Council adopts budget based on lower tax rate
By Jo Clifton and Tyler Whitson City Council adopted a balanced $3.5 billion Fiscal Year 2015-16 budget on Thursday that reduces the anticipated property tax burden for owners of median-valued homes by about $14. With an overall jump in utility…
Budget • By Austin Monitor • Sep 11, 2015
Swift backlash for Zimmerman’s courthouse idea
City Council Member Don Zimmerman’s idea to relocate the proposed Travis County Civil & Family Courts Complex to East Austin drew fire Thursday. After years of planning, Travis County Commissioners voted last month to place a $287 million bond on…
Travis County • By Elizabeth Pagano • Sep 11, 2015
In, out and on the fence: Changes roil race for sheriff
With less than six months until the party primary elections in March, the race for Travis County sheriff is still fitfully taking shape, with one candidate joining the field, another leaving and one major surprise headline developing that could completely…
Elections • By Caleb Pritchard • Sep 11, 2015
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Tovo finds an apparently painless $2 million cut
After its second day of budget deliberations and numerous additions for quality-of-life programs, City Council still needed to find or trim an additional $1.2 million to $1.3 million in order to balance the budget for Fiscal Year 2015-16. A city…
Budget • By Jo Clifton • Sep 10, 2015
Council changes energy demand charge policy
Following weeks of buildup, City Council has amended a contentious Austin Energy policy in an attempt to help small businesses avoid potentially costly demand charges. Rather than adhere to an Electric Utility Commission recommendation that Mayor Pro Tem Kathie Tovo…
Energy • By Tyler Whitson • Sep 10, 2015
Zimmerman plan to "rebalance" transportation spending splits Council
City Council Member Don Zimmerman would like to see a change in Austin’s transportation infrastructure spending. His proposal, which would mandate at least $2 million per district for mobility Capital Improvement Projects, won varying levels of support from Council Members…
Budget • By Elizabeth Pagano • Sep 10, 2015
AURA, UT group want to tear down wall, plant trees
Tear down that (West Campus) wall. The West Campus Wall – which runs along much of the University of Texas’ western edge, separating the campus from Guadalupe Street – has long been a symbol of UT’s isolation from the rest…
Austin • By Sunny Sone • Sep 10, 2015
Council finishes budget adoption Day One
City Council dove into the Fiscal Year 2015-16 city budget reading process on Tuesday, making some progress toward its goal of adopting the budget by the end of Thursday. Though there is still a long way to go before Council reaches…
Budget • By Tyler Whitson • Sep 9, 2015
"Risky" demolition permit plan inspires preservation effort for downtown church
In August, a suggestion to pursue a demolition permit for Austin’s St. Martin Lutheran Church sparked controversy in the congregation and preservation community. Though no decision about the permit has been made and church leaders maintain the permit is a…
