Budget

County adopts new tax rate

The Travis County Commissioners Court formally adopted a brand new property tax rate on Tuesday. The unanimous vote marked the last major action in this year’s version of the annual budget dance. It was a relatively placid affair, given the…

Budget • By Caleb Pritchard • Oct 7, 2015

County approves budget, restores jail visitations

On the eve of Fiscal New Year’s Eve, Travis County commissioners voted to adopt a brand-new budget that will keep the lights on through 2016. Along the way, they managed to inject some last-minute drama into the proceedings by restoring…

Budget • By Caleb Pritchard • Sep 30, 2015

Jail visitation dominates county budget hearing

Travis County Commissioners Court held its first of three public hearings on the proposed tax rate for the next fiscal year on Tuesday evening, but instead of anxious property owners venting about affordability concerns, a determined group of inmates’ rights…

Budget • By Caleb Pritchard • Sep 23, 2015

Tax rate, transfers for parks, libraries, win approval

It was just a formality, but City Council voted 9-2 on Tuesday to adopt the Fiscal Year 2015-16 property tax rate of 45.89 cents per $100 of valuation, a 6.8 percent increase over last year. Council Members Ellen Troxclair and Don…

Budget • By Jo Clifton • Sep 23, 2015

Austin Monitor Radio: Austin Mayor Steve Adler

Austin Mayor Steve Adler joins Monitor publisher Mike Kanin to talk about the city of Austin’s fiscal year 2015-16 budget. The show is embedded below:

Austin • By Michael Kanin • Sep 21, 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

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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

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

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

Tovo proposes budget adoption process

Mayor Pro Tem Kathie Tovo on Wednesday signaled that she would like City Council to use a budget adoption process similar to the one used by the previous Council over the past two years. Council Members Delia Garza and Leslie…

Budget • By Jo Clifton • Sep 3, 2015

Council gauges interest on proposed budget items

City Council inched closer to adopting the city’s Fiscal Year 2015-16 budget at a work session on Tuesday when it took a “straw poll” – in the words of Mayor Pro Tem Kathie Tovo – of the concept menu items…

Budget • By Tyler Whitson • Sep 2, 2015

Travis County reduces proposed tax rate

Crucial new data has given Travis County’s budget writers a little extra leeway to lower the proposed property tax rate in the next fiscal year. A Planning and Budget Office staff presentation before the Commissioners Court on Tuesday revealed that…

Budget • By Caleb Pritchard • Sep 2, 2015

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