City of Austin Council Message Board

All:

Mayor Pro Tem Garza and I, along with several of you, will be posting 1) a resolution related to the above and 2) a budget amendment to create the Relief In a State of Emergency (RISE) fund, which will allow these programs to be funded immediately. We'll get you copies as soon as we can.

-Greg

Colleagues,

Here is an updated version of Item 90. I have made non-substantive edits and included required language for the notice. http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 083544.pdf

Looking forward to our meeting today.
-Greg

Thank you for this question, CM Flannigan. This ordinance only applies to "impacted tenants" which is defined as a tenant who loses wages or income during the local disaster. I hope this addresses your concern.

-Greg

Thank you, CM Kitchen, for your support. We'll add your name as a co-sponsor.

-Greg

Colleagues, I greatly appreciate all the work everyone has done to ensure Austin residents are taken care of during this local disaster. I am sponsoring Item 90 on this week’s agenda, along with the Mayor, MPT Garza, and CM Tovo, that is an emergency anti-eviction ordinance. The ordinance will provi...

Mayor Pro Tem Garza, I hope we can pass Item 56 on consent as well. I'm happy to assist in answering colleagues' questions between here and the Council Meeting as necessary.

Thanks,
Greg

Colleagues,

Here is an amendment I am proposing for Traunch 2: http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 170625.pdf

-Greg

Colleagues, Below are my proposed amendments for the first traunch of the LDC 2nd Reading: http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincouncilforum/50-20200207155931.pdf Additionally, I am proposing an amendment to the northwest area of Downtown that reflects the stakeholder conversations about increased ca...

Dear colleagues, Below please find a link to an updated draft resolution for Item 59. This draft contains clarifying changes primarily from our Law Department and Chief Manley. The changes included in this document were made to further clarify the original intent of the resolution when it was posted...

Colleagues, Here are two amendments I will propose in “Traunch 2.” I posted my additional Downtown amendment yesterday, and will also propose an amendment to my RES1 amendment. - Downtown: http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincouncilforum/30-20191209092818.pdf - RES 1: http://assets.austintexas.gov/a...

Colleagues,

Here are my remaining amendments to "Traunch 1." I kept the numbering the same for consistency so they are labeled Motion Sheets 11, 12, 13, and 15 (there is no 14).
http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 084045.pdf

-Greg

Colleagues,

Please see an additional amendment I will be proposing regarding Downtown. I understand this will be taken up only after amendments posted Friday are taken up.

http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 092818.pdf

-Greg

Colleagues,

Please see my amendments below. I have made some changes since Wednesday, including removed and additional amendments.

http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 122424.pdf

Looking forward to the Public Hearing on Saturday and discussion on Monday.

-Greg

Thank you MPT Garza. I think an Equity Overlay is a powerful idea. We know we need more housing in our city, and we need a stronger focus on anti-gentrification and equity. This gets us both. I look forward to supporting the Equity Overlay and a land development code that will prioritize keeping wor...

Colleagues, below are my edits to the Parks Plan, as discussed yesterday during work session.

http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 112606.pdf

Thanks,
Greg

Thank you, Mayor, for laying out the next few months. I agree with the goals you’ve described for our first reading. In particular, I do not believe we should draft technical code and map amendments until we are closer to our final product. I also agree with CM Ellis that we should address the SOS o...

Thank you Mayor. I support moving the February council meetings up a week each, to 2/6 and 2/20.

Thanks,
Greg

Mayor Pro Tem, thank you for laying out this plan. I think this will work well and I look forward to the discussion.

Council Members Flannigan and Ellis, and Mayor: Thanks for posting this and thanks for emphasizing the importance of clarifying the sit/lie/camping ordinances for our community. While there was disagreement about which changes, if any, to make to our ordinances, there was unanimous support for clari...

Colleagues:

Here is a word version of the ordinance I posted above.
http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 12613.docx

-Greg

Colleagues: Attached is ordinance language that makes the summary document (above) into legal language. It’s the phased approach—which I thank CM Kitchen, Tovo, and the Mayor for coming together on—with my preferred options. The options presented in the draft linked below clarify our June 20th actio...

Colleagues: Below please find a link to a summary of my preferred version of the ordinance, which is to clarify our action in June, to define health/safety issues, obstruction issues, and small areas around shelters. It also supports a phased approach as laid out earlier this week. I understand that...

Mayor: Thanks for this. I think it’s a really positive development that we recognize in our ordinance that people need housing and services, first and foremost, because even with our clarifications to the ordinance, we can’t truly succeed until we house people. I’m also glad that the areas of policy...

All: see below, my office’s hard work attempting to compile a ‘side by side’ comparison chart of the Tovo/Kitchen proposal versus the Adler/Casar proposal. http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincouncilforum/8B-20190912172307.pdf We did our best to make sure we took language straight from the ordinance...

I’d like to thank Council Members Tovo and Kitchen for their diligence and patience in working with Mayor Adler, myself, and our staff. I’ve been grateful for the opportunity to collaborate with you all as we tried finding a shared path forward, and I believe we are closer to that through our hard w...