City of Austin Council Message Board

On behalf of CM Ellis: Colleagues, I’ve brought the Item 59 resolution on tomorrow’s agenda to address the noticeable increase in the unsafe use of electric motorcycles, also known as e-motos, in Austin. In recent weeks, we’ve witnessed the growing impact of e-moto use on our streets, sidewalks, par...

On behalf of CM Ellis and CM Laine: Colleagues, Thank you for the good discussion yesterday at Work Session regarding the 2026 Bond. We appreciate all the work done by the BEATF, staff, and community to get us to this point. Like our colleagues on the dais, we would like to put a responsibly-sized, ...

On behalf of CM Ellis, please see v2 of the motion sheet below. This corrects the postponement to the Regular Council Meeting in July, which is July 23 instead of July 30.
http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 105821.pdf

On behalf of CM Ellis, please see the following motion sheet to postpone Item 4, the Special Events ordinance, with direction: http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincouncilforum/F9-202605126170356.pdf The text of the motion is as follows: "I move to postpone Item 4 to the July 30, 2026 Council Me...

On behalf of CM Ellis: MPT Vela, Thank you for bringing this motion to indefinitely postpone Item 52. To clarify the goals and outcomes that Council desires, I suggest we slightly amend this portion of your direction "● Incentives to remove and/or relocate billboards out of and away from reside...

On behalf of CM Ellis, please see a v2 of Item 40, the Missing Middle & Mixed-Use Zoning IFC, as well as a "quick guide" to the IFC and v2 changes. Law is currently formatting the headers on these documents, which will be distributed through the Agenda Office shortly. Resolution - v2 r...

On behalf of CM Ellis, please see the following motion sheet with direction regarding Item 23, the Parks & Rec RecTrac Contract:
https://assets.austintexas.gov/austinco ... 084026.pdf

On behalf of CM Ellis, please see the following motion sheet for the Bond Decision Framework resolution and Exhibit A, with accompanying rationale:
https://assets.austintexas.gov/austinco ... 083005.pdf

Colleagues, I wanted to let you all know I am working with Planning and Law staff to bring a code amendment initiation resolution to create the new Missing Middle and Mixed-Use zoning districts recommended in the recent staff memo and study: https://services.austintexas.gov/edims/document.cfm?id=466...

Colleagues, I appreciate all the good conversations we’ve had around the draft Council Expense Policy. Since my initial post above and following our Audit & Finance Committee discussion, I’ve been grateful to dig extensively into the topic with CMs Laine and Fuentes, especially regarding our car...

On behalf of CM Ellis, please find a motion sheet for Item 85 (Council Office Expense Policy) attached that reflects the amendments proposed above:
http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 202503.pdf

On behalf of CM Ellis: Mayor, thank you for this thoughtful Council Office Expense Policy proposal. I believe centralizing and clarifying these rules in one document will be very helpful to this and future Councils. I strongly support the intent and appreciate the opportunity to offer my feedback. I...

On behalf of CM Ellis: Colleagues, Thank you for the helpful discussion yesterday and today. I also deeply appreciate our professional staff diving into the issues and working constructively with us to help us produce the best possible updated budget, given our financial constraints. As I laid out t...

On behalf of CM Ellis: Thank you, Mayor, for proposing this task force to ensure our public spaces continue to embody Austin’s values of inclusivity, diversity, and pride. I am nominating Garry Brown, longtime LGBTQ advocate and District 8’s appointee to the same commission, to serve on this new tas...

On behalf of CM Ellis:

Mayor Watson,
Thank you for bringing forward this IFC. I would be happy to cosponsor.
Thanks!
Paige

On behalf of CM Ellis: Colleagues, As you know, we enter the 2025–2026 budget cycle facing difficult choices, due to the property tax revenue cap imposed by the State Legislature. Without new sources of funding – such as a Parks Maintenance Fee – we will have a challenging time maintaining the wide ...

On behalf of CM Ellis, please see the following motion sheet with direction regarding the development of the Construction Partnership Program ILA. It has been reviewed by TPW and Law.

http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 092026.pdf

On behalf of CM Ellis: Please see below our motion sheets for tomorrow, which reflect the staff recommendation and were prepared with Law and reviewed by Financial Services. Item 41: http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincouncilforum/9B-202505141220439.pdf Item 42: http://assets.austintexas.gov/austin...

On behalf of CM Ellis: CM Siegel, thank you for your proposed amendment to the TRE policy. I share your concerns that, particularly due to the Legislature's arbitrary municipal revenue cap, the City will soon face an unavoidable budget deficit due entirely to base cost drivers like employee wages, h...

On behalf of CM Ellis, please see the attached motion sheet, providing direction to annually report data on single-stair developments:

http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 175732.pdf

On behalf of CM Ellis: Colleagues, Tomorrow (Thursday)’s Mobility Committee meeting will include three briefings from TPW that you may wish to hear regarding: - The draft Austin Core Transportation (ACT) Plan for downtown; - The 6th Street vehicle access pilot program (co-presented by APD); and - Th...

On behalf of CM Ellis: Colleagues, Item 37 on tomorrow’s agenda brings us the long-awaited ordinance to right-size stormwater drainage requirements for missing middle housing developments of 5 to 16 units. This ordinance is the next step in implementing two Council resolutions: Site Plan Lite (SPL, ...

On behalf of CM Ellis: Colleagues, Tomorrow (Thursday)’s Mobility Committee meeting will include three briefings on topics of citywide importance that I wanted to bring to your attention: - A federal mobility grants outlook, with a status update on grants to the City of Austin (presented by IGRO and...

Posted on behalf of CM Ellis: Mayor Watson, thank you for initiating the conversation around the 2025 Council committee and intergovernmental appointments. Moving forward, I would like to: JOIN - Balcones Canyonlands Conservation Plan Coordinating Committee [Position to be vacated by MPT Pool] - Cap...

Posted on behalf of CM Ellis: Mayor Watson, thank you for initiating the conversation around the 2025 Council committee and intergovernmental appointments. Moving forward, I would like to: JOIN - Balcones Canyonlands Conservation Plan Coordinating Committee [Position to be vacated by MPT Pool] - Cap...