City of Austin Council Message Board

Council Members, Regarding the memo issued today by the City Manager concerning the Office of Performance Management, I wish to thank him and his staff for their efforts in response to Council's direction to initiate a "Sunset Review" process for City departments and programs. I have discu...

Council Members, As I will not be able to join you for today's discussion regarding the Consumer Advocate, I have posted below the text of an e-mail I sent to Council Members Gallo and Pool that reflects my thoughts on this matter. Have a great meeting today. My thoughts… I understand that on Thursd...

Please see my proposed amendment to Item 92 on the 11/19 agenda:

http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 172218.pdf

Please see my proposed amendment to Item 80 (ADUs):

http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 102218.pdf

Council,

Please see my proposed amendment to Item 33:
http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 201744.doc

Please see the following revised ordinance for Item 78.

http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 173217.pdf

From Daniel Llanes: Here are the agreement and site plan we have reached with the Red Bluff Hotel Partners. We are asking that the Council support our appeal with the conditions outlined in our agreement. We ask that you not deny the appeal so as not to violate the spirit of the Waterfront Overlay, ...

Also as mentioned this morning, this is a very early draft of the amendment. I encourage you to suggest changes and additions, and look forward to receiving them.

Councilmembers,

As discussed during today's worksession, I will propose the following amendment to Item #33 related to the Convention Center Master Plan. Please let me know if you have any questions.


http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 151515.doc

Councilmembers, At the urging of Council Member Garza, I have a called a special council meeting for this Sunday, November 8 at 2 PM at Austin City Hall. The agenda will include several issues, mostly technical in nature, which staff is indicating must be resolved by Council in order for city staff ...

Please read the following letter from County Judge Sarah Eckhardt:

http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 111231.pdf

Council Members, I have requested a special-called Council meeting for this Thursday in order to provide an additional opportunity for our offices make Board and Commission appointments. Since we have a gap of three weeks between Council meetings, plus the additional time required for the City Clerk...

Council Members, Today, and in earlier work session conversations, we discussed the creation of an ad hoc workgroup to consider and make recommendations on items to be included in the City’s legislative agenda. I am appointing the following members to the work group: Mayor Steve Adler Council Member...

Word document with proposed amendments: http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 155653.doc

Council members, Below are amendments proposed to the resolution regarding neighborhood planning contact teams. RESOLUTION NO. WHEREAS, the Land Development Code (Sec. 25-1-801) defines a neighborhood plan contact team (“contact team”) as a group of individuals designated to implement an adopted nei...

Council Members, For our discussion later today regarding Short Term Rentals, I offer the following as a possible direction to consider for STRs. STRs must comply with each provision: 1. No more than six unrelated people; 2. No more than 10 or 12 people (related or unrelated); 3. No more than 2 peop...

Council Members, I intend to form an ad hoc legislative committee with the following charge, and I want to give my colleagues a chance to suggest changes to the scope… My current thoughts on scope: 1. Recommend to full council what should be on our legislative agenda; 2. Recommend protocol for how c...

Council Members, At our meeting this evening, we decided to postpone to next week the remaining STR issues. We do not have a regular council meeting scheduled this coming Thursday, however, we do have a special-called council meeting on Tuesday for a tax rate hearing. I propose that we continue the ...

Attached are three spreadsheets and a reconciliation: 1. Council Concept Budget #1 is what was posted last Friday ( http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincouncilforum/C2-20150908081207.xlsx ) 2. Council Concept Budget #2 is updated with some number changes since Friday ( http://assets.austintexas.gov/...

Colleagues: I am posting two budget amendments for your consideration. 1. Amend the budget by $150,000 to establish a Housing Strike Fund. The purpose of a strike fund is to target the preservation and creation of affordable housing in Austin. See response to budget question No.165 for more informat...

Colleagues: I propose for consideration that we work from a base budget (Council Concept Budget) that takes advantage of the work we have done so far. We can then propose our revisions to this Council Concept Budget, rotating within each subject area. I’ve outlined how this would work as follows: DI...

Thanks for the constructive suggestions as to how to move the budget process forward next week. I hope to post my own process suggestions sometime on Friday so they may be considered by all. There are aspects of past practice that appeal to me, too. But I want us to also consider process elements th...

Councilmembers, would any of you second this item for the concept menu? This is a menu item to: 1. Create an Office of Equity as the City Manager believes such a concept would be best executed. 2. Consider incorporating into the Office of Equity the following: a. Already existing staffing and suppor...

Council Members, It was my sense of our discussion at our work session this past Tuesday, that the Council will not be inclined to postpone the Springdale Farms issue (Item #67) and that the Council believes that the issues presented, having already had substantial public airing and participation, s...

Council Members, Per our discussion at today's work session, I am calling a council meeting for this coming Tuesday, August 25th. The agenda for this meeting will be set and posted at the end of this week, on Friday. At this point, that agenda will include budget briefings and possible consideration...