City of Austin Council Message Board

Colleagues, We will not hold a joint COVID Briefing next week (3/16) - as we traditionally try not to hold Council meetings during the week of AISD’s Spring break. The County is also not meeting next week. Instead, we have asked Dr. Escott and Stephanie Hayden-Howard to provide an update in writing....

Colleagues, Next Tues, March 9, we will have our regular Joint COVID Briefing with Travis County at 9 am. There is also a Council Meeting posted for that same morning to continue the Exec Session items from last week. On that agenda, we have also posted the COVID update in case Council wants to cont...

These are the items we have left for today. Council may take them up in any order. Pulled Items: • 40 – agreement for abortion access • 62- ATD Operating Budget • 68- Austin Convention Enterprises Non Consent: • 79: Public Hearing – enterprise zone projects • 80: Public Hearing – water rates • 83-86...

Colleagues, Here is the general plan I recommend for the 3/4 Council Meeting. We have about 109 speakers signed up overall. - In the morning, we will hear from about 83 speakers at 1 minute each. - Noon - Citizen Communication – 10 speakers at 3 min each. - Lunch break: after Cit Com Speakers - 2 pm...

Colleagues, In preparation for tomorrow’s Council meeting, I’m posting an amendment to this resolution that begins to list details for the City Manager to report back on. I encourage others to raise ideas or concerns here that can be included into the direction. http://assets.austintexas.gov/austinc...

Colleagues, Here is the general plan I recommend for the 2/25 Special Called Council Meeting. We have 11 speakers signed up to speak. - Start with COVID Briefing - Then briefing on Severe weather event and ongoing recovery and relief efforts - If we have time before lunch, can start considering acti...

Colleagues, I asked the City Manager to include Item 6 on the Special Called Meeting so that all of us would have an opportunity to raise and include for consideration those ideas and issues that might help mitigate the disaster’s impacts on our residents. The item has broad posting language: "...

Colleagues, As requested by the City Manager, a Special Called meeting will be posted for next Thursday, February 25 at 10 am. We will receive a briefing by staff on the weather related response and on COVID. There will also be items posted by staff regarding the emergency declaration and in relatio...

The Thursday (2/18) Council Meeting has been cancelled. The City Manager indicated that staff needed to focus on the emergency issues in front of us. Even though we are not having a regular Council Meeting this week, it is clear that Council Members need up to date information about our current cris...

The City Manager has closed the City, except for essential services, on February 16 and 17. Therefore, the February 16 Work Session has been cancelled.

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I am cancelling the special called meeting for tonight. It is apparent from the message board that there will not be the necessary eight affirmative votes in attendance tonight or available to approve the item to ensure an odd number of voting council members. I greatly appreciate the willingness an...

Colleagues, Based on the message board responses, it does not appear that we have enough Council Members to hold the noticed meeting on Friday night. At least six members would be required to have the quorum necessary to convene a meeting and legal tells us that passing the proposed item would requi...

CM Fuentes, in response to your message board post, and having gotten a similar request from MPT Harper Madison, the option to have such a special called meeting has been preserved with a posting tonight. Colleagues: please respond to this message board post to indicate whether or not you want Counc...

Colleagues:
Here is a proposed change on the ballot language for the mayor-council item to make clear there is a veto and it is subject to being overridden with a two-thirds or three-fourths majority vote of council.

http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 144341.pdf

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Colleagues,


Here is the general plan I recommend for the 2/9 Special Called Meeting. We have 37 speakers signed up to speak.

9 am – COVID Briefing (Item #6)
11am – take 37 speakers at 3 minutes each
Lunch break after speakers
Executive Session after lunch
Discussion and action on items 1-5.

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Colleagues, Today, the agenda office will be posting Special Called Meetings for next week regarding the petition items. Tuesday, we will have the COVID Briefing with just our Council and then handle the petition items. We do plan to return the joint briefings with the County in future weeks. Meetin...

Here are the items we have left today. Council may take up the items in any order. Pulled Items - 8: Equitable Chamber Funding - 35: GoodWork Austin contract - 36: Sysco contract - 49: IFC - HEAL Initiative - 60: ESD #17 - 61: Hotel purchase - 62: IFC – Project Connect anti-displacement funds Non Co...

Here is a link to my edits in motion sheet format:
http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 103445.pdf

Council Member Kitchen and Co-Sponsors: Again, thank you for your leadership on the HEAL initiative which importantly addresses some encampments and street management issues. Acting in more immediate ways must happen along side the longer-term and more permanent work. I would like the Council to con...

Colleagues, Here is the general plan I recommend for the 2/4 Council Meeting. We have about 235 speakers signed up to speak. 5 of those are on zoning cases. - In the morning, we will hear from about 154 speakers at 1 minute each. - Noon - Citizen Communication – even if not quite done with morning s...

Colleagues, For the near future, we plan to continue Joint COVID Briefings with Travis County each Tuesday morning at 9 am. Our next one is tomorrow morning (Feb 2). This time, I will call on Council Members for questions in reverse District order- so starting with D10, ending with D1. We will conve...

Here are the items we have left for today. Council may take them up in any order.

Pulled Items:
13 – HealthSouth
27-32 – hotel items (after 3pm speakers)

Non consent:
63- Exec Session – May 2021 Election
Zoning

Here are the items we have left for today. Council may take them up in any order.

Pulled Items:
13 – HealthSouth
25 – ESD #17
27-32 – hotel items (after 3 pm speakers)
51 - ROW fees for Capitol Complex

Non consent:
61 – Mayor Pro Tem
63- Exec Session – May 2021 Election
Zoning items

Colleagues, Without yet having heard any concerns from Council Members on the proposed resolution and amendment, I want to thank Council Member Fuentes for her efforts on this resolution to address one of the most serious challenges in our city - flood risk. I also appreciate the amendment offered b...

Colleagues, Here is the general plan I recommend for the 1/27 Council Meeting. We have 117 speakers signed up on “Morning” items. - In the morning, we will hear the 23 speakers signed up on items other than hotel items. Each speaker will get 3 minutes. - Noon - Citizen Communication - 4 speakers are...