City of Austin Council Message Board

Colleagues, This is my amendment to CM Kelly's amendment: The notice may include a reasonable minimum time period by when a resident must make initial contact with the landlord or provide an initial response after receiving the notice of proposed eviction, if the proposed ordinance creates a notice ...

Colleagues, Below is my motion sheet for Items 45 and 49. These items authorize legal/litigation services contracts to defend the City in lawsuits filed by protest victims. In order to encourage the City to settle these cases rather than continued litigation, I move that we reduce the authorized amo...

Colleagues,

Below is an updated version of my motion sheet.
http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 092236.pdf

-Greg

Colleagues, As I mentioned on Tuesday, please see my motion sheet for Item 64. ADUs are an important mechanism for multi-generational housing and for families to stay in place. As we address this issue, it is important that we do not reduce the number of structures a homeowner is allowed on their pr...

Colleagues, I'm excited to be passing Item 30 on this week's agenda. I sponsored the resolution to create the Civil Rights Office in 2018 and am happy to see the establishment of the office and now the codification of its authority. I am offerring the following direction to the item to direct the Ci...

Colleagues,

Thank you for bringing this forward. I look forward to strongly supporting this proposal which I believe will have consensus support and will help us with our housing supply and affordability challenges. We know there is much work left to do, but this is one important step.

-Greg

Thank you, Mayor. I also support your recommendation of a work session focused on affordability, and that timing works well. We do not have a Housing & Planning Committee scheduled for December, so adding a work session for the whole Council would be helpful. I look forward to discussing refinin...

Thank you, CM Alter, for leading on this. The rise in anti-semitic attacks in our communities is unacceptable. This kind of hate has no place here.

Please add me as a co-sponsor.

-Greg

Colleagues,

Below is a list of topics and questions I have for Interim Chief Chacon related to the vote today.
http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 102656.pdf

-Greg

Colleagues,

If anyone has trouble with the link posted above (due to high traffic to the link), use this link instead:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... oh/pubhtml

-Greg

Colleagues, Below is a link to a spreadsheet that includes: (1) all budget amendments; (2) all budget riders; and (3) my proposal at a 4.9% above no-new-revenue, which incorporates all of the Council investment priorities with only small modifications and still reduces taxes for the typical homeowne...

Colleagues, Please see Version 2 of the compiled budget amendments: http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincouncilforum/18-20210811093638.pdf This version corrects the funding amount for Mayor Adler's vaccine incentive. Also, the Budget Office included some ARPA amendments as budget riders and some as ...

Colleagues, I’ve worked on the document linked below with Council Members Fuentes, Kitchen, and Ellis. This document compiles many of the budget amendments (not riders) proposed by Council. We believe that the items reflected in this document would represent a strong set of budget amendments that st...

Colleagues, I have updates to my first and third amendment and will be proposing an additional amendment. I’ve posted them below: *UPDATED* CASAR-1: Additional One-time Stipend I’ve updated the stipend tiers to match the existing 3-tier structure and have updated the cost of stipends for temps. The ...

*Reposting into this thread: Colleagues, Please see my budget amendments below: CASAR-1: Additional One-time Stipend Cosponsors: CM Alter, CM Kitchen, CM Renteria http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincouncilforum/2A-20210806183143.pdf CASAR-2: Family Violence Shelter Contingency Cosponsors: CM Alter,...

Colleagues, Please see my budget amendments below: CASAR-1: Additional One-time Stipend Cosponsors: CM Alter, CM Kitchen, CM Renteria http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincouncilforum/2A-20210806183143.pdf CASAR-2: Family Violence Shelter Contingency Cosponsors: CM Alter, CM Ellis, CM Tovo, Mayor Adl...

Colleagues, The Council could fund many of its priorities while also reducing property taxes for the average homeowner. Illustration of potential amendments for one-time dollars: • $3.0M for Parks- ½ for childcare at recreation centers and ½ for groundskeeping, temporary rangers, maintenance, etc. •...

Thank you, everyone, for the robust discussions on the budget. I support many of the amendments brought forward by the dais, including the EMS/Fire amendments from CM Alter, the resiliency/community schools amendment from CM Tovo, the community health workers prioritized by CM Fuentes, the mental he...

Colleagues,

Please see below my updated direction for this item.

http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 153120.pdf

Greg

Colleagues, After years of advocacy from the St. John community and many leaders across Austin, we voted last year to initiate the RFP process for the St. John Property (old Home Depot/Chrysler sites). I am glad to see Item 26 on next week’s agenda with Staff’s recommendation for this site. While Gr...

Thank you for the alternative proposal, CM Alter. I appreciate the additions to the priority areas of childcare and workforce development, and I strongly support maintaining the $100M in homelessness funding. I also am happy that our federal allocation from the federal government was higher than exp...

Mayor: Thanks for your post. After hard work done on this by our staff and our Council—with staff proposals and discussions in March, April, May, and last week—I support approval of this latest version you’ve posted. I believe that a $100M commitment to addressing homelessness is critical, and that ...

Thank you CM Alter for this thread. I support the Success by 6 initiative and I support funding this proposal. I'm proud to join all of you in this critical work. I also hope that we can engage our school districts' trustees in opening up even more classrooms and seats for high quality childcare, so...

CM Tovo, thanks for your amendment. I think it captures much of what I intended. Please see some small suggestions below. The City’s effort should include not only the necessary facilities planning but also engagement with each community *to ensure adequate* communications, personnel, transportation...

CM Tovo and Co-sponsors, Thank you for bringing forward this item on resilience hubs to help our City further prepare for future emergencies. I would like to offer the following amendment to elevate the need to appropriately prepare and operate these facilities to benefit our community. http://asset...