City of Austin Council Message Board

On behalf of Council Member Tovo – Colleagues, I have distributed Version 2 of my Amendment #8, which adds the Downtown Austin Community Court’s costs to Option #2. Please find it below. CM Tovo Amendment #8 - Cost-of-Living-Increases for Social Service Agreements: http://assets.austintexas.gov/aust...

On behalf of Council Member Tovo – Good morning colleagues, Please find the Version 2 or my Budget Rider #6, as well as a new Budget Rider (Budget Rider #10) below. These will be circulated by the Agenda Office and hard copies will be available on the dais. Budget Rider #6 VERSION 2 - Austin Energy ...

On behalf of Council Member Tovo: Dear colleagues, Below are the latest versions of my amendments, which have been updated to reflect feedback and financial estimates from the Council Budget Q&A, city staff, and stakeholders. For ease, I am also separating out my budget riders from the single do...

Please find below a link to the redlined version of Council Member Tovo's item 95:

http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 134922.pdf

Please find below amendments CM Tovo is proposing on 124:

http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 211222.pdf

Please see below a link to CM Tovo's motion sheet on the Statesman PUD:

http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 202214.pdf

On behalf of Council Member Tovo: Thank you, Mayor, Colleagues, I would like to remain on the bodies to which I am currently appointed to serve. Also, I would like to confirm my appointment to the Hate Crimes Task Force. Austin Energy Utility Oversight Committee (Vice-Chair) Audit and Finance Commit...

On behalf of Council Member Tovo: Colleagues: At yesterday's work session, several of you expressed an interest in learning more about the places cited in my ADU resolution. Below is a link to a document Jim Duncan presented to the Zoning and Platting Commission, which served as the source of this i...

Please find below a link to amendments Council Member Tovo will offer on item 96:

http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 094439.pdf

Please find below a link to CM Tovo's amendment to Item 40:

http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 45230.docx

Council Member Kathie Tovo October 1, 2020 Proposed Amendment Item 52 • By 10/8/20, the City Manager shall provide information about the impact on Chapter 380 businesses if economic incentives payments for performance in Fiscal Year 2021 were decreased by 75% or 50%.   • By 10/8/20, the City Manager...

Please find below amendments to Item 55 offered CM Tovo. Additions are marked by asterisks in Appendix B on p. 2: Council Member Kathie Tovo October 1, 2020 Amendments to Item #55 The composition of the Board shall consist of the President and representatives that hold a strong background, understan...

Revised amendment for item 62: Insert the following BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED after line 172: In particular, the City Manager shall bring forward an ordinance or ordinances on October 1, 2020, to place into a designated business preservation fund the following payments: temporary use of right-of-way fe...

The City Council directs the City Manager as follows: 1) The Convention Center expansion – and all actions to advance that project – should substantially align with the placemaking imperatives of the Palm District Planning Initiative (formerly referred to as “Palm District Master Plan”) as expressed...

Below please find a revised motion from CM Tovo: Revised Motion (9.17.20) Item 62 (SAVES) Insert the following Whereas: WHEREAS, City Council has passed several resolutions to provide relief to musicians and music venues, including Resolution No. 20200409-086, directing the City Manager to create th...

Please find below a revised motion for item 62: Insert the following BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED: The Council directs the City Manager to return to Council by October 1, 2020, with an ordinance to place into a designated fund the following payments: temporary use of right-of-way fees, alley and street va...

Below please find two amendments CM Tovo plans to bring forward Thursday: Insert the following Whereas: WHEREAS, City Council has passed several resolutions to provide relief to musicians and music venues, including Resolution No. 20200409-086, directing the City Manager to create the Live Music Dis...

Please find a link below to the amendments CM Tovo's distributed today.


http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 12807.docx

Please find a link below to CM Tovo's amendments 6-12 (note: there is no Amendment 9):

http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 34426.docx

Below is a link to CM Tovo's amendments:

http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 83340.docx

As a follow up to the discussion of including lighting in parks under the Service Area Lighting component of the Community Benefit Charge. The information we received from PARD staff ( $1.9 million) was for the entire budget for electric service of all PARD facilities. The lighting costs of parks un...

Below please find questions from MPT Tovo following up on the 2/9/16 work session and the information contained in the 2/8/16 memo. These have been submitted to the formal Q/A process as well: 1. Please describe the items that will be contained within the Development Agreement and the estimated time...

Below please find some info on artspace an amendment language the MPT Tovo plans to propose tomorrow How does Artspace determine who is an artist? (This and further information about artspace can be found at this link: http://www.artspace.org/): "We define the term “artist” broadly to comprise ...

Mayor Pro Tem Tovo will be proposing the following amendment to item 57, which initates code amendments to the Festival Beach Subdistrict of the Waterfront Overlay: BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED That prior to presenting this ordinance to the City Council for consideration, the City Manager is directed to e...

Mayor Pro Tem Tovo may not be able to make it to today's Public Utilities Committee. She woudl appreciate it if one of the committee members could inquire whether collections are being suspended for customers who are requesting that their account be investigated.

Thank you,
Shannon