City of Austin Council Message Board

Colleagues, In advance of tomorrow’s work session discussion on Item #44, I wanted to share TxDOT’s response to the proposed resolution and highlight one key point: “The I-35 Capital Express Central project preferred alternative allows for the opportunity to build structural support for deck plazas....

Colleagues – Two days ago, the Council made two of the most consequential votes that any of us might take while serving on this body. We made a change to our City Manager, and we gave clear instructions to the citizens, the Interim City Manager, and to the police association about the direction that...

Council, In the Special Called Meeting of the Austin City Council tomorrow, we have three items before us. Below is the proposed plan for the day. Please note that all times are estimates and may change depending on the discussion on the dais and additional speaker sign-ups. We will begin promptly a...

Council Members, I have continued to test positive for Covid -19. So, I will be attending the meeting remotely. Mayor Pro Tem Ellis will preside. I'm sorry and disappointed. While I feel better, I pretty much knew that I wasn't done with this. I'll see you tomorrow. Sort of. Kirk On behalf of Mayor ...

Council:

Because of the proposed amendments to items 40, 41 and 80, I’m pulling them from the consent agenda. This will allow us to consider the amendments and, if they are supported, adopt them in accordance with appropriate process.

Thanks,
Kirk

On behalf of Mayor Watson

Council,
Please see amendment to Council Member Vela’s resolution.

http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 170233.pdf

Kirk

On behalf of Mayor Watson

Colleagues, At the council meeting this Thursday, I am offering an amendment to Item 80, a resolution concerning bargaining for a meet and confer labor contract with the Austin Police Association. My priorities for this contract are to accomplish the following: 1. Preserve the ability of Austin vote...

Colleagues: This morning, I added an emergency item to Thursday’s City Council agenda to evaluate the employment of City Manager Spencer Cronk. Council Members Alison Alter, Chito Vela and Vanessa Fuentes have joined me in sponsoring the emergency item. I added the emergency item to the agenda this ...

Thanks for this. I agree that we need to better understand what worked and what didn’t in our response and what should happen going forward. Council Member Pool and I had discussed this and thought that to do this we should give AE the time to put together the data we will need. Right now, they are ...

Council, Thank you for the collaboration as we worked through the Council Committees and Intergovernmental Entity Appointments last week. Upon review, the City Clerk noted that we only appointed one Council Member to the CAN Board of Directors (Council Member Vanessa Fuentes). We need to appointment...

Council, I have pulled item 53 (Council Committees and Intergovernmental Entities Appointments) for the Council Meeting tomorrow, January 26th. We still have items involving three committees that need attention. Please give this a look and see if we can resolve these questions through the message bo...

Council, Please see the attached updated documents on Council Committees and Intergovernmental Entity Appointments that were discussed during the Work Session earlier today. Please note that I have highlighted changes and notes in yellow. http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincouncilforum/FA-202301241...

Council,
Please see the attached documents for discussion at the Work Session on January 24, 2023.

http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 084412.pdf

http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 084742.pdf

Kirk

On behalf of Mayor Watson

Council: Thanks for the continued input re council committees and appointments to intergovernmental entities. If you haven’t sent in your preferences, please do so. To make sure I’ve shared my thoughts about appointments for the Mayor, I’m submitting this note. My thinking is that I take those appoi...

Council: I’m looking forward to our first meeting on January 26. I’ve been looking at and thinking of different ways we might add to our meetings’ efficiency and productivity. My hope is that proper time management will help. To that end, my plan is to always start the meetings on time at 10:00 AM. ...

Please see updated links in pdf version.

http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 094227.pdf

http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 094257.pdf

Council Members, As we start this new year and time together, we need to organize committee assignments and assignments from the Council to intergovernmental bodies. The plan would be for the Council to consider and, if ready, vote on these appointments at the January 26, 2023, Council Meeting. I’ve...