City of Austin Council Message Board

On behalf of Council Member Ellis: Colleagues, I appreciate all these amendments to help us mitigate the impacts of the current disaster, to gain greater insight into the City's emergency response to this disaster, and to better prepare us for future disasters. Once we have addressed the current cri...

My apologies, here is the correct link for the redline of the CM Ellis amendment:
http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 133933.pdf

Here is the redline version of the CM Ellis amendment:
https://apps.austintexas.gov/austincoun ... 133933.pdf

CM Ellis would like to suggest the following amendment to CM Tovo's direction: "• Ensure that, at a minimum, the Economic Development Department, Finance Department, Office of Real Estate, Parks and Recreation Department, Austin Transportation Department, and Housing and Planning are deeply involved...

On behalf of CM Ellis, please see the following direction to the City Manager for your consideration on Item 61 today, related creating and maintaining an online data reporting tool for the Street Impact Fee program: "City Council directs the City Manager to create and maintain a publicly accessible...

On behalf of CM Ellis, please find below a new motion sheet for Item 11 on the October 1 agenda, the DSD Contractor Registration Program resolution. A few elements (subpoints d-g) have been updated or clarified from the September 17 motion sheet V2, based on discussions with DSD staff, but it is lar...

Please find below Version 2 of the CM Ellis motion sheet for Item 12, which incorporates feedback from Law regarding sub-point (e). It is otherwise identical to Version 1. Thank you.

http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 35816.docx

Good morning. Please find below a motion sheet from CM Ellis for Item 12 (the DSD Contractor Registration Program resolution), which reflects the discussion at work session and includes many of CM Flannigan's ideas to strengthen the resolution. CM Ellis appreciates his collaboration on this amendmen...

On behalf of CM Ellis, please find the following revised documents for the Clean Creeks Crew budget amendment. CM Ellis thanks her cosponsors CM Alter, CM Pool, and CM Harper-Madison for their support and contributions to this amendment and rider. Amendment Form (unchanged from previous posting, oth...

Here is the Legal-formatted version 2 of Item 90:
http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 122841.pdf

CM Ellis appreciates her colleagues' support for this item today and looks forward to the work ahead.

On behalf of CM Ellis, please find below a red-lined version 2 of Item 90, which incorporates the proposed amendments from CM Flannigan and CM Alter:

http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 91557.docx

When the Legal-formatted version is available, we will post that as well.

Council Member Ellis intends to bring the following amendment to Harper-Madison-10, which she hopes will be accepted as friendly: [HARPER-MADISON–10] IMPERVIOUS COVER EXEMPTIONS The Land Development Code staff shall consider and specify partial or full exclusions to impervious cover calculations, if...

Council Member Ellis intends to bring the following clarifying amendment to Ellis-1: [ELLIS–1] BARTON SPRINGS ZONE COMMERCIAL ZONING REVIEW Re-review the application of comparable equivalent zoning categories for commercial properties within the Barton Springs Zone to ensure appropriate water qualit...

On behalf of CM Ellis, please see the attached amendments she plans to offer at second reading:
http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 65220.docx

Council Member Ellis will bring the following amendment to Tovo #17: http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincouncilforum/47-20191209200155.docx The above document shows the full red-lined version, but for simplicity of viewing, the amended language proposed is as follows: "Prohibit non-owner-occupied S...

Dear colleagues, Here is an amendment I have drafted regarding the mapping of missing middle housing in high-opportunity areas. I'm interested in your thoughts and welcome your feedback as together we pursue a more equitable, sustainable future for our city. The goal of this amendment is to ensure w...

Posted on behalf of Council Member Ellis: Dear Colleagues, Thank you all for the great discussion at today's work session. I look forward to continuing it tomorrow! Since the topic of a Heritage Tree Preservation Bonus Program came up today (thank you, Council Member Harper-Madison!), I want to shar...

Posted on behalf of Council Member Ellis: Thank you, Mayor, for your suggestions regarding the scope and schedule for Council’s first reading of the draft LDC revisions. I concur with this plan, especially with regards to keeping our discussion high-level and policy-focused for this initial action. ...

On behalf of Council Member Ellis, please find the attached budget amendment and associated budget direction for your consideration: Summary: Maintain the Clean Community Fee at its current FY 2018-2019 level, pending a report back from the City Manager with additional information no later than Nove...

On behalf of Council Member Ellis: Thank you, Council Member Flannigan, for proposing this amendment to the Faulk renovation resolution. Like you, I would like to see this beautiful, historic City asset used to its highest purpose and enjoyed by as many residents as possible, especially given its lo...

Council Member Ellis intends to bring the following motion sheet for discussion this afternoon, which amends CM Pool’s proposed amendment to Question 1, Section 4, letters a-d, and incorporates CM Harper-Madison’s proposed amendment into letter a: http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincouncilforum/BE-...

On behalf of Council Member Ellis: Dear colleagues, Thank you all for your thoughtful posts on how we can best shape the land development code revisions to achieve our community's goals! I look forward to discussing them at our meeting. In addition to "Amendment A" posted earlier by the Mayor to ref...

On behalf of CM Ellis: Dear colleagues, I intend to bring one amendment tomorrow regarding the Transit Enhancement Program (formerly Transit Priority Policy), following our discussion with staff at work session. This amendment aligns with existing staff plans, and they are comfortable with the langu...

On behalf of Council Member Ellis: Dear colleagues, Since receiving the latest draft of the SD23 Mobility Outcome document last week, my office has developed some amendments to the strategies and metrics that I plan to offer for Council's consideration. We have been working with the Office of Perfor...

On behalf of Council Member Ellis:

Dear colleagues:

I just wanted to let you know the reason I have pulled Item #40 for discussion at work session tomorrow is to offer a friendly amendment to make the resolution language match the posting language with respect to the word "transit."

Thanks!
Paige