Our Ongoing Water Crisis - Request for Co-sponsorship
Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2018 5:31 pm
Colleagues,
As our community finds itself in the midst of a declared disaster with respect to the state of our public water utility, I would first like to thank: the people of Austin for remaining calm and understanding throughout these past four days, and for making the necessary sacrifices to conserve water and helping to get us back on track to normalcy; our Austin Water staff who’ve been working around the clock on to get clean drinking water back to our residents and businesses; our City Manager for his handling of this unprecedented water service disruption, as well as all of our Emergency Operations Command partners.
While it is essential that we first get through this crisis, looking forward, I believe that the public deserves and would greatly benefit from an open dialogue with City and Water Management, examining what led to our present situation, what went right, what went wrong, and what we can do to be better prepared in the future. It’s important that we, as Austin’s elected officials, demonstrate leadership in working toward ensuring we never find ourselves in this situation again.
Below is also a resolution for which I’m seeking your during our next Council meeting on November 1st, assuming that we have resumed normal operations by that time. I would be grateful for any co-sponsors who wish to support this measure as an addendum to our upcoming Council meeting agenda:
http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 73037.docx
As our community finds itself in the midst of a declared disaster with respect to the state of our public water utility, I would first like to thank: the people of Austin for remaining calm and understanding throughout these past four days, and for making the necessary sacrifices to conserve water and helping to get us back on track to normalcy; our Austin Water staff who’ve been working around the clock on to get clean drinking water back to our residents and businesses; our City Manager for his handling of this unprecedented water service disruption, as well as all of our Emergency Operations Command partners.
While it is essential that we first get through this crisis, looking forward, I believe that the public deserves and would greatly benefit from an open dialogue with City and Water Management, examining what led to our present situation, what went right, what went wrong, and what we can do to be better prepared in the future. It’s important that we, as Austin’s elected officials, demonstrate leadership in working toward ensuring we never find ourselves in this situation again.
Below is also a resolution for which I’m seeking your during our next Council meeting on November 1st, assuming that we have resumed normal operations by that time. I would be grateful for any co-sponsors who wish to support this measure as an addendum to our upcoming Council meeting agenda:
http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 73037.docx