City of Austin Council Message Board

Colleagues, As I mentioned at the Council work session, I have an amendment to item 75 on the council agenda. I want to thank Council Member Tovo for bring this resolution. My amendment asks that the project be reviewed in the context of citywide needs and that staff consider a range of funding opti...

Colleagues, In June, Council voted to create an Austin Water Oversight Committee of Council. Per the new ordinance, The Austin Water Oversight Committee may review issues related to the City’s water utility, including mission, scope, and responsibilities of relevant advisory commissions and task for...

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FYI, here is a response from Council Member Tovo and me to Judge Eckhardt's July 3, 2019 letter to the City Council concerning the Palm School.

http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 172113.pdf

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I know that each of us is getting many constituent inquiries about what the Council recently did and anticipates to shortly do with respect to homelessness. Just FYI, I wanted to share what my office is sending in response to such inquiries. http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincouncilforum/16-201907...

Dear Colleagues, I have been thinking about the invocation at our City Council Meetings and have spoken with a sub quorum of Council. It is important that the Council makes it clear to the public that our opening moment is a celebration of diversity of thought in this city and that someone who walks...

Colleagues, I am posting below an updated version of item 184 for tomorrow's council agenda in order to give everyone as much time as possible to review the edits. I will also have copies available on the dais. I would like to thank my co-sponsors, the city staff, and community members who have prov...

Colleagues, I had been asked by some stakeholder groups for more details on the Council’s actions related to homelessness and the impact of those actions on the tools available to police. I responded to those stakeholders with this document - http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincouncilforum/03-20190...

The Work Session and Addendum Agenda have now posted, so here are a few updates and clarifications for the meetings next week. Tuesday, June 18 – Work Session at 9 am following our normal schedule (CM Kitchen and I will not be in attendance at Work Session) There are three meetings at which we could...

Colleagues, As we begin planning for our final meetings before the July break, this is to outline to the public how and when I propose we hear our items. There are three meetings at which we could act on items from the June 20, 2019 Council agenda: - Wednesday, June 19th at 1:30 pm, a Special Called...

Colleagues,

Please find proposed amendment language for Item 45 on today's, June 6th, Council Agenda as it concerns the current: Camping, Sit/Lie and Solicitation Ordinances.

http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 12534.docx

I strongly condemn the action in Alabama and continue to be a strong supporter of reproductive healthcare. My concerns with using a boycott as a tool are similar to those raised by the posts of Mayor Pro Tem Garza, and Council Members Flannigan, Ellis, and Casar. Thank you Council Member Pool for dr...

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I offer the following amendments for discussion this afternoon: http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 11235.docx

Colleagues, My proposed plan for today is for us to work off this as a base document, unless the will of the Council is otherwise. http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincouncilforum/BF-20190502121659.pdf This document is one posted in back up by staff, which includes all action taken at the April 25th...

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I offer the following amendments for discussion this afternoon: http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 11235.docx

Colleagues, Thursday afternoon, beginning at 1 pm, we will pick up where we left off last week and finish discussing and voting on amendments to the answers and direction the Manager requested. As we’re picking up where we left off last week, and may only have three or four hours to complete our wor...

Colleagues, As discussed, we will begin deliberation with the base document that I posted a couple weeks ago; This post offers Amendment A, which reflects the amendment elements set forth in yesterday's bulletin board post by CM Ellis and me; As it is believed these amendments may reflect the will o...

Colleagues, Thanks for the hard work yesterday and for the many posts to the message board. We got through a lot of issues. Please try to post your amendments today, by close of business if at all possible, so that others have a chance to review and vet them before tomorrow. As we all prepare amendm...

Colleagues, Several of you have asked for me to post the document related to Transition Area mapping that we distributed on the dais during yesterday’s works ession. The link is below. We anticipate offering amendments to this later today. http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincouncilforum/08-20190423...

Colleagues, I’m looking forward to discussion of the LDC Rewrite next week (on Tuesday and Thursday). In anticipation of several amendments (some already posted) to the base direction document that I posted on the 13th, I request that council members post any proposed amendments to the bulletin boar...

Colleagues, I have posted here Word versions of the council policy direction document and future planning direction document to make it easier for you to propose amendments and changes. LDC Policy Direction: http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincouncilforum/85-20190416113039.docx Future Planning (Adl...

Thank you, Ann, for the draft of a Planning Section. Not too dissimilar from what we were doing, so we just made amendments to your draft (link below). Note that rather than putting the criteria, etc., for planning into the code, it seems more appropriate to do it by direction (resolution? in the bu...

Colleagues, As discussed at Thursday’s Council meeting, we have drafted a document which can serve as a base for amendments in order to provide the Manager the direction he requested. Linked here: http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincouncilforum/F3-20190413152634.pdf - As was requested by several co...

Colleagues, Re: Item #33: Austin Strategic Mobility Plan (ASMP) To the extent possible, it would be really helpful if everyone would daylight proposed amendments prior to Thursday’s council meeting by bringing them to tomorrow’s work session or posting them on the message board before Wednesday even...

Colleagues, Let’s get the Manager the policy guidance he requested with his five questions. If we do this part well and by the end of April, informed by the voluminous community, staff, and council work already done, I hope we can get some measure of LDC re-write done by year’s end. Thanks for the C...

Colleagues, There is a discussion item listed on the Work Session for February 19 for us to address Planning Commission membership and appointments. As you remember, the terms of all Planning Commissioners expire in June 2019, but with the recent charter change, there is more flexibility for the tim...