City of Austin Council Message Board

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...

On behalf of MPT Ellis, please find a motion sheet for Item 28 (minimum parking requirements) that gives the City Manager direction related to minimum bicycle parking requirements:

http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 100145.pdf

On behalf of MPT Ellis, please find the TxDOT presentation materials for today's item on I-35 Capital Express Central: "I-35 Capital Express Central Project Update" (dated Sept. 28, 2023): http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincouncilforum/A3-20230928134429.pdf "I-35 Capital Express Pro...

On behalf of MPT Ellis, please see this motion sheet for Item 100 on tomorrow's agenda, the AISD land development standards ILA:

http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 171040.pdf

This amendment was requested by AISD.

On behalf of MPT Ellis, please find below the complete collection of backup materials for the Council Mobility Committee meeting today at 1pm: Agenda page & PDF: https://www.austintexas.gov/department/city-council/2023/20230824-mobc.htm http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincouncilforum/94-2023082...

On behalf of MPT Ellis: Thank you, Council Member Pool, for leading on this important initiative that will make housing and homeownership more attainable. It’s difficult to see so many longtime – even lifelong – Austinites pushed out of the city they planted roots in because of a lack of affordable ...

Colleagues, Item 26 on our Council agenda this week is an opportunity to make adjustments to the remainder of the 2023 Council meeting schedule, and your feedback is needed. https://www.austintexas.gov/department/city-council/2023/20230518-reg.htm#026 As discussed, I propose we shift our August 24 C...

On behalf of MPT Ellis, please find a motion sheet related to Oak Hill Planning, as discussed at work session, below:

http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 091347.pdf

Here is today's presentation from Anna Lan, CapMetro TOD Manager, on the public engagement done to-date on eTOD:

http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 141237.pdf

On behalf of Mayor Pro Tem Ellis: Dear colleagues, Tomorrow, March 2, at 1pm in Chambers, the Council Mobility Committee and Housing & Planning Committee are jointly meeting on equitable transit-oriented development (eTOD) planning and policies, with a focus on the draft eTOD Policy Plan. As you...

On behalf of MPT Ellis, please see version 2 of her amendment to Item 44, which adds "and design speeds" so that lines 99-103 would read: “4. Encourage TxDOT, the Austin Transportation Department, and other City departments to continue to collaborate and prioritize reducing the environment...

On behalf of MPT Ellis, please see her proposed amendment to Item 44: http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincouncilforum/CE-20230222152838.pdf Per the work session discussion, this amendment would add a phrase (in asterisks) to the end of lines 99-103 as follows: “4. Encourage TxDOT, the Austin Transp...

On behalf of CM Ellis, please find her motion sheet for Item 27 attached:

http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 105221.pdf