City of Austin Council Message Board

Colleagues, The members of the Public Safety Committee, the City Manager, Chief Manley, and OPO Director Muscadin have received a request from the Chair and Vice Chair of the Community Police Review Commission (CPRC) to review all General Order changes directed in Resolution 20200611-095 regarding p...

Colleagues, I appreciate everyone’s support and am thankful that my colleagues are willing to express confidence in my ability to unify the dias and bring our shared goals into focus in the coming year. Shortly after my announcement, many of you began receiving calls urging you to switch your votes....

Colleagues, I would be honored to serve as Mayor Pro Tem if elected by you. Every voice in our city should have a say in our local government. If elected Mayor Pro Tem, my commitment is to serve in pursuit of this goal. In this pandemic, we have shown how local government can save lives when we work...

Thank you, Mayor, for these suggestions. I support this plan.
-Greg

Thank you, CM Tovo, for laying out your thoughts and providing the documents above. I am supportive of finding ways to achieve even more affordable housing at the Health South location. If we can give direction on Thursday to continue to increase the affordable housing component (both # of units and...

Greetings Council Colleagues, We have all received multiple requests about APD’s plans to keep Austin safe in the probability of free speech/free assembly activity after election day. In many of those requests, we’ve received specific questions about what will be done differently from APD’s approach...

Thank you, CM Harper-Madison and MPT Garza, for leading on this. I am also happy to add my name as a co-sponsor.

-Greg

Colleagues,

Law took a second look and made these edits: http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 142838.pdf

-Greg

Colleagues,

Please see the direction I plan to move with Item 95, the Convention Center exclusive negotiation agreement:
http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 100426.pdf

-Greg

Colleagues,

Please see my amendment for Item 17, the City's State Legislative Agenda: http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 100230.pdf

-Greg

Thank you Mayor, CMs Flannigan, Tovo, and Pool for bringing forward this important item. Please add me as a cosponsor as well.

-Greg

Thank you, Council Member Harper Madison for the above. I have made a final update to the spreadsheet, in order to accomplish the following: (1) Provide APH the recurring funding that they need in Harper-Madison 4 (2) Funds Harper-Madison 5, the Equity in Policing Technology amendment (3) Funds Harp...

Colleagues: I think we are all OK with the Mayor's procedures for running the budget meeting. In the Mayor's post, he describes that we will start with a base motion. Rather than begin with the City Manager's budget as the base motion, I believe we should have a base motion that incorporates the wor...

Colleagues,

Here are my updated Budget Amendment Forms to reflect the changes in the chart:
http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 145519.pdf

-Greg

Colleagues: I have updated the spreadsheet in the following link. Thank you again for your work during this very challenging budget. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1F95cQrX9RUwjM4Ryfuu2FD5Q5jDlVSWKVvTY-KfdGW4/edit?usp=sharing Without any further changes to the police budget, we’ve made the f...

Colleagues: Thank you to everyone for the ongoing, diligent, and collaborative work. Mayor, CM Tovo, CM Alter, and CM Harper Madison, thank you for the post above. It is fully compatible, I believe, with the initial proposal in this thread and the latest updated versions. It’s clear that the dais un...

CM Renteria and CM Flannigan, thank you for your support of this proposal. CM Tovo, thank you for your amendments. Below is a link to the budget amendments I am proposing. These match up with the Immediate Reinvestments and Long Term Change plan in this thread. http://assets.austintexas.gov/austinco...

CM Ellis, Thank you for your support. In response to your request, I have updated the spreadsheet. We’ve moved the remaining un-earmarked funds adjusted the plan to address the issues on our trails, to make them safe and keep them maintained especially in light of their usage during COVID-19. The sp...

Council Members Pool and Kitchen: Thank you very much for your work on all this, and for your support. I have updated the spreadsheet to add $150K for the Workforce program you both have mentioned. Along with you, I will keep working to find ways to fund as many priorities as we can in the coming da...

Colleagues: Mayor Pro Tem Garza, CM Harper-Madison, and I are sharing with you a joint proposal that aims to incorporate the important amendments that all the Council Members have championed throughout this budget process. The following is our best attempt to incorporate your amendments into one pro...

Colleagues, As we begin to reallocate police dollars next week, it is important that our budget decisions meet the demands of the moment we're in. As we decide which programs to reallocate dollars to, we should ask ourselves the following: • Will this reduce harm or violence in our community— thereb...

Colleagues, I would like to share a path for us to reach at least $100 million in changes to the APD budget: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qR5vfPyrpPatY6_rwONLpZZDT1bUWrAqjSb5ORw5ugU/edit?usp=sharing This document is meant for discussion. I look forward to your input and thoughts from the ...

Council Member Alter, I too am very supportive of this measure to expand funding for EMS in this years budget. Even before COVID-19, our EMS department has lacked the funding required to scale with the growing public health needs of our city. This proposed increase is a great start. Along with Counc...

Colleagues, Here is a first batch of three amendments I’d like for us to consider. These three amendments have about a $40M impact, and I will be working on further amendments (and I know other offices will too) as we work toward reallocating $100M in changes to our budget. I will continue to add mo...

Thanks y’all. I support a separate active transportation bond proposition. I also will support the plan outlined above, but at 8.75 cents to increase the displacement mitigation provisions. While I generally support the entire 11-cent plan, I think given our economic situation this year, passing 8.7...