City of Austin Council Message Board

Council, The Special Called meeting of the Public Safety Committee will be held tomorrow, May 22nd at 10am. We will begin with the staff presentation and briefing on the Austin Police Department and Texas Department of Public Safety partnership. Following the presentation and briefing, we will hear ...

Council, Here is my proposed plan for the Council meeting tomorrow. We will begin promptly at 10am. We will hear public testimony on consent and non-consent items. Speakers will have 2 minutes. We will then vote on the consent agenda with brief remarks from Council. Please remember to let Colleen kn...

Council, Please see my statement on the APD / DPS partnership. The Texas Department of Public Safety has determined that it needs to deploy additional resources to the border because of the expiration of the federal Title 42 border policy. At the time the partnership was announced, the director of D...

Council:

I want to give you an update on the APD / DPS partnership.

DPS officers will work supporting APD through tomorrow and then all officers will be sent to the border.

This will be for a minimum of two weeks.

Thanks,
Kirk

On behalf of Mayor Watson

Colleagues – I want to update you on a significant development with House Bill 3899, which is the legislation aimed at killing Austin Light Rail. House Bill 3899 was heard in the Senate Local Government Committee on Monday, and Chairman Paul Bettencourt has raised a new argument directly related to ...

Council, I am calling a Special Called Meeting of the Austin City Council on May 16th immediately following the conclusion of the Work Session to canvass the May 6th Election results. While we only need two members present to canvass the Election results, all members are welcome to be present. Pleas...

Council, For your information, I’m sharing the statement I released regarding today’s election. The Austin City Council did not adopt the four-year police contract in February primarily because we wanted to protect the right of voters to be heard on police oversight. With the passage of Proposition ...

Council, Here is my proposed plan for the Council meeting tomorrow. We will begin promptly at 10am. We will hear public testimony on consent and non-consent items. Speakers will have 2 minutes. We will then vote on the consent agenda with brief remarks from Council. Please remember to let Colleen kn...

Council: This is a follow-up to the discussion we had about the next in person briefing we will receive re the APD/DPS partnership. I worry I may have caused confusion yesterday when I suggested moving it up from the Special Called Public Safety Committee meeting scheduled for May 22 to the Council ...

Council, Here is my proposed plan for the Council Work Session tomorrow, May 2, 2023. We will begin with the briefing on the five-year Financial Forecast. This presentation is expected to be two hours. We will take up the briefing on the partnership between the Austin Police Department and the Texas...

The automated speaker registration system used to sign up to speak at meetings, including the Public Safety Committee meeting on April 24th, will be down for maintenance this weekend. To accommodate for this, the kiosks will be open to register for the Public Safety Committee meeting earlier than us...

Council, Here is my proposed plan for the Council meeting tomorrow. We will begin promptly at 10am. We will hear public testimony on consent and non-consent items. Speakers will have 2 minutes. We will then vote on the consent agenda with brief remarks from Council. We will then take up the non-cons...

Council Member, After our telephone conversation, I took immediate action so this requested briefing will be on the Work Session agenda on May 2nd. I appreciate your sense of urgency. We will keep the Special Called Meeting of the Public Safety Committee on May 22nd so that we can have continued bri...

Council, Our Work Session today was very productive and informative. Thanks for all the good questions. I recognize that there are unanswered questions, a desire from Council to hear from the Department of Public Safety, and the need to stay up to date on this partnership. For these reasons, I’m cal...

Council: I’m proud of the work that we’ve accomplished together, and I’m looking forward to our continued work. As we seek to achieve our shared goal of conducting effective and efficient City Council Meetings, I want to propose a couple of ideas. In trying to be efficient, but I don’t want to miss ...

Council, Here is my proposed plan for the Council meeting tomorrow. We will begin promptly at 10am. We will hear public testimony on consent and non-consent items. Speakers will have 2 minutes. We will then vote on the consent agenda with brief remarks from Council. Please note that any items with a...

Council: This is to let you know the order that we’ll take up work session items tomorrow. As you know, the Austin Energy Oversight Committee of the whole is set for 9:00 tomorrow. Chair Pool will call that to order and preside over the business of that committee. Following that meeting, we’ll have ...

TO: Council Members FROM: Mayor Kirk Watson Jesús Garza, Interim City Manager DATE: April 6, 2023 SUBJECT: New Procedures for Initiating Emergency Operations The most critical time for the City to be providing its residents with the clearest information and best services possible is during an emerge...

Colleagues, Here is my proposed plan for the Council meeting tomorrow. Please note all times are estimated and may change, depending on the will of the dais and additional speaker sign-ups. We will begin promptly at 10am. We will hear public testimony first. Speakers will have 2 minutes. We will the...

Council: The next meeting of the Public Safety Committee is scheduled for April 24th at 2pm. I know public safety is an important issue for all the members of this Council, so I would like to invite all Council Members to offer suggested agenda items. If you have an agenda item that you would like t...

Colleagues, Here is my proposed plan for the Council meeting tomorrow. Please note all times are estimated and may change, depending on the will of the dais and additional speaker sign-ups. We will begin promptly at 10am. We will hear public testimony first. Speakers will have 2 minutes. We will the...

Colleagues - I requested that the City Attorney add an executive session item to the March 9, 2023, agenda to discuss the process and timeline for hiring a new permanent City Manager. She will post this as both a legal and personnel matter. The interim City Manager has also asked for a separate exec...

After consideration, I decided that the better way to carry this out was to have Council direct the City Manager to put together the program that reflects Council’s desire to show support for the police. I look forward to our discussion. http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincouncilforum/DA-2023022221...

A correction to my earlier message. Council will hear public testimony on item 44 at 1pm. That will be followed with a motion, discussion and vote.

Council will hear public testimony on item 61 at 2:45pm. That will be followed with a motion, discussion and vote.

On behalf of Mayor Watson

Colleagues, Here is my proposed plan for the Council meeting tomorrow. Please note all times are estimated and may change, depending on the will of the dais and additional speaker sign-ups. We will begin promptly at 10am. We will hear first from our speakers on consent agenda items. Speakers will ha...