City of Austin Council Message Board

CM Spelman's office here. We've compiled the attached list of items for the FY15 budget that have been requested by citizens that have visited our office . The list also includes some items from the unmet service demands document from staff that CM Spelman feels warrant further evaluation/discussion. This list is not exhaustive, nor has CM Spelman committed to supporting any of these items.

To see staff's unmet service demands report, click https://www.ci.austin.tx.us/financeonli ... TDOCUMENTS, then click Budget Development, and then budget development reports.)

Our list can be found here: http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... BF0D9D.xls

Feedback welcome!

Here's a more current version of our list:
http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... BF0D9D.xls

Thanks!

Thanks, Heidi!

Requests are multiplying... so here's another update. Again, to be clear, this is a list of requests from citizens, and another list of unmet needs that CM Spelman feels warrant additional evaluation/discussion, not to be construed as support. Other Council offices, please feel free to post additional citizen requests you've received if we've missed any, or your own lists of what merits further eval.

http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... BF0D9D.xls

You're going to have to show me how to link to a spreadsheet. Below are the constituent requests that we have received (w/requestor and amount) in addition to the ones you have listed. Note one or two may be included in the Social Services RFA process.


Mobile Classroom Support - Colorado River Alliance - $40k
Family Resource Center - AISD - $500k
Parent Support Specialists - AISD - $2.5M
Communities in Schools - AISD - $645k
After school programming - AISD - $1.3M
Emergency radio system - AISD - $483k
Grant for Technology Opportunities Program - Community Technology & Telecommunications Commission - $100k
Primetime after school - Austin Interfaith - $2.2M
Summer Youth Employment - Austin Interfaith - $1M
Capital IDEA - Austin Interfaith - $350k
Austin Groups for the Elderly - Austin Interfaith - $75k
Parks department funding - Austin Interfaith - $30M
Library Department funding - Austin Interfaith - $4M
NHCD funding - Austin Interfaith - $10M
Austin Energy - low income weatherization - Austin Interfaith - $4M
Health Department - health food incentives - Austin Interfaith - $250k
Library Makerspace - Nerds Love APL - $58k
Library Adult storytelling - Nerds Love APL - $10k
Library support for young entrepreneurs - Nerds Love APL - $66k+
Library staff & outreach - Nerds Love APL - $400k
Youth violence prevention - Council for at Risk Youth (CARY) - $375k
Juvenile & Family Transition Coordinator - ARC of the Capital Area - $62k
Restore Funding - Austin Youth RiverWatch - $200k
ATCHHSD Chronic Disease Prevention and Control Program - St. David's Foundation - $450k
Youth Mentoring - Youth Pathways - $100k
Waive of all fees for WobeonFest - WobeonFest - $11k
Sponsorship of of Walk to Defeat ALS - ALS Association - $10k
Landlord Outreach Coordinator and web based tracking - ECHO - ?
Case managers for MLF Housing First project - Caritas - Phased - $50k / counselor

and I should post your caveat on there, too. these are just requests received. no specific support should be implied. just trying to document at this point.

Ok, it's the Friday edition of budget requests. We've added a few more that have come in the meantime to our excel list. See them here:

http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... BF0D9D.xls

Here's another update with some additional requests from citizens. We're up to over $68 million in requests.

http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 3BC053.xls