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Tag Archives: Travis County Commissioners Court
Stadium proposal renews talk of hotel taxes for Expo Center revamp
Travis County officials appear ready to push for some of Austin’s growing pool of Hotel Occupancy Tax money to be used to pay for an ambitious expansion of the Travis County Exposition Center site, which is also where a group…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Dec 11, 2017
County adopts sidewalk fee-in-lieu program
Developers in unincorporated Travis County will now pay the price for not building sidewalks. On Tuesday, the Commissioners Court approved changes that will establish a sidewalk fee-in-lieu program similar to the one operated by the city of Austin. Chapter 82…
Transportation • By Caleb Pritchard • Dec 6, 2017
County officials launch inmate tablet pilot
The Travis County Sheriff’s Office will launch a pilot program in 2018 that will put tablet computers in the hands of inmates at the county correctional complex in Del Valle. On Tuesday, deputies briefed the Commissioners Court on the progress…
Travis County • By Caleb Pritchard • Nov 30, 2017
Travis County braces for new annexation law
The state’s new law that will make municipal annexations more difficult will also bring new complications for Travis County, the Commissioners Court learned on Tuesday. Scheleen Walker, long-range planning manager at the Transportation and Natural Resources Department, told the court…
Travis County • By Caleb Pritchard • Nov 29, 2017
'This is the hammer': Residents bring lawsuit in fight against Central Health
On Tuesday afternoon, after Fred Lewis declared new financial rules imposed on Central Health were inadequate, the Austin Monitor asked the attorney, activist and reliable thorn in the hospital district’s side if he had a lawsuit in the works. His…
Courts • By Caleb Pritchard • Oct 19, 2017
New rules for Central Health don't satisfy critics
The Travis County Commissioners Court has concluded another chapter in the extended controversy over Central Health, but one of the hospital district’s lead critics says he is not ready to quit. On Tuesday, the court amended the district’s financial policy…
Public Health • By Caleb Pritchard • Oct 18, 2017
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Reporter's Notebook: Sticking with what we know
Such a tease… Travis County Commissioner Jeff Travillion’s recent appointment to the Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority Board of Directors was probably all but guaranteed given the circumstances – his avowed interest in transit on top of the need to politically…
Reporters' Notebook • By Austin Monitor • Oct 16, 2017
Austin Monitor Radio: Travis County bond election
This week, Mike Clark-Madison and John Langmore join Austin Monitor freelance reporter Caleb Pritchard to talk about the county’s upcoming bond election. The show is embedded below, and more information about the election is available on the county’s website or…
Radio • By Austin Monitor • Oct 16, 2017
County no longer suing surf park
The Travis County Commissioners Court voted unanimously on Tuesday to bail on its legal challenge against the state’s first artificial surf park. After a relatively short executive session during their regular weekly meeting, the members of the court returned to…
Courts • By Caleb Pritchard • Oct 11, 2017
Reporter's Notebook: Animal protection
Pine Forest still driving up Bastrop’s legal bills… During the past year, the city of Bastrop has paid an additional $106,308 to the lawyer representing the city and Bastrop County in their continuing legal battle with the Pine Forest Investment…
Reporters' Notebook • By Austin Monitor • Oct 9, 2017
STAR-Vote collapses
Lack of interest from the private sector has sunk Travis County Clerk Dana DeBeauvoir’s plans for a proprietary new voting system. On Tuesday, DeBeauvoir told the Travis County Commissioners Court that STAR-Vote is all but dead. The news marked a…
Travis County • By Caleb Pritchard • Oct 4, 2017
County sued over lease information
Even though Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has ruled that Travis County must provide a copy of the 99-year lease of 308 Guadalupe St. between the county and Lincoln Property Company, the county has not yet done so. In response,…
