City of Austin Council Message Board

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...

Colleagues,

Please see below for a link to the budget amendment regarding relationship violence crisis intervention.

http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 190518.pdf

Thanks,
Greg

Colleagues, Thank you Mayor Adler for outlining the proposed process for our budget deliberation this year, and to those who have shared your priorities thus far. I strongly support the following improvements to the City’s mental health first response system that I understand Manager Cronk will be p...

Colleagues, We’re posting to share about our cosponsorship of Item 3 on the Judicial Committee Agenda for ‪September 3, 2019. The item asks for update and discussion regarding THC testing and marijuana enforcement by the Austin Police Department, in light of the recent changes made by the Legislatur...

Thank you all for creating this document, and I appreciate how closely you worked with me to make sure it reflected our shared path forward to addressing the challenge of homelessness, with the goal of ending homelessness in Austin. I support (and have supported) all of the past and new programs lis...

Colleagues, I’m writing to make sure you’re aware of a press conference regarding abortion access & the city budget on Monday August 19th at 1:30 PM in the City Hall media room. I understand that the reproductive justice organizations (who are hosting and organizing the event) have invited several C...

Colleagues, I plan on making the following small amendment to Item 78. I want to recognize Central Health’s important contribution to the community on Red River, while also making it very clear that specific entitlements are not a part of this agreement. I've conferred with ATD staff and they do not...

Colleagues,

I would like to include the following additional direction with Item 185. I believe this will help us measure the results/impacts of changing the ordinances.

http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 152236.pdf

Thanks,
Greg

Colleagues: Thank you to everyone for participating in a robust conversation two weeks ago regarding the ordinances related to homelessness. Also, thanks to the Mayor for the document above. Based on our conversation at Council and conversations in the community, we’ve posted updated ordinance langu...

In my post, I neglected to recognize CM Flannigan's previous post in this thread. I apologize; it was an unintentional oversight. I concur with CM Flannigan's perspective as well, and look forward to working together on our shared goals.

Thanks,
Greg

Thank you, Mayor Pro Tem Garza, for your post. Boycotts are an important tactic for making social change. In the case of Arizona’s anti-immigrant SB 1070, the City of Austin participated in a boycott coordinated and heavily supported by immigrant rights activists in Arizona. In the case of the recen...

Colleagues, See below my two amendments to Item #29. First, I am open to requiring reinvestment of certain fees and revenue to the Rainey area. However, I’d like the City Manager to ensure that such a change does not negatively impact funding needs for other citywide priorities- with an eye toward e...

Colleagues, Here are the motions that I plan to present for Item 27 (Affordability Unlocked). As I described yesterday, it includes an amended base motion that includes the planning commission recommendations on minimum site area and screening/design, clarifications to that language to ensure the ou...

Colleagues,

My amendments for today are below:
http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 120340.pdf

-Greg

From Greg and Delia: Colleagues, Find here, three amendments to the document posted by the Mayor. http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincouncilforum/FB-20190418181317.pdf The first amendment relates to our citizen commissions. Our commissions did hard, diligent work improving prior land development co...