City of Austin Council Message Board

Colleagues, I want to thank Housing & Planning Director Rosie Truelove and her staff for providing the summary memo of the eTOD Policy Plan earlier today, and for joining Project Connect Mobility Officer Annick Beaudet at the work session to answer our questions about the plan. The memo points o...

Colleagues, Tomorrow will be our first official Austin Energy Utility Oversight Committee meeting of the year. We have a couple of items to dispense with at the top of the 9 a.m. hour, then we will hear from any speakers. Austin Energy will then lead a 45-minute briefing on Winter Storm Mara. The me...

CM Kelly, I appreciate your intention with this IFC, but I cannot support your item and its approach at this time. As the mayor and I have communicated, we have agenda items for all affected departments to provide us with status and progress reports and to answer questions from the dais. We will hav...

Colleagues, I appreciate and concur with the offers Mayor Watson, MPT Ellis, and CM Ryan Alter have made to work through the last few issues relating to committees: > CM R Alter to be vice chair of Planning & Housing, and > CM Qadri to be appointed to Visit Austin. After reviewing the mayor's an...

morning, Mayor! Thanks for posting the committee lists and gathering our inputs. Couple details for our new colleagues as you're deciding what committees you'd like to be on: > Committees should have at least four members, with no upper number limit. > The Austin Energy Oversight Committee is a comm...

CM Kitchen, thanks for drafting this resolution to expand the ATP board. Adding two new members to that board has been a focus of discussion for a while now, particularly among those most closely focused on Project Connect. I support adding a member appointed by the City Council, and as a member of ...

CM Ellis, I support these additions to our federal legislative agenda - thanks for recommending.

cheers,

Leslie

Colleagues, I am re-posting the schedule for upcoming council work sessions, public hearings, and vote on the Austin Energy Base Rate, as well as links to the City Clerk and Austin Energy webpages with Base Rate Review documents. AE Base Rate Review Schedule: • Nov. 9, 2022, 10:00 a.m. Special Calle...

Mayor, thank you for clarifying the intent of the framework policy in your recent post and for incorporating language from our colleagues. Thank you for accepting my amendments which are intended to restate the Council’s support, in particular, for the environmental regulations that help sustain the...

Mayor, thanks for assembling all the dates in this coherent list. The dates proposed below work well at my end. CM Ellis' point about needing time between work session and voting session is well-taken, and I agree that the Thurs-Fri combo is better than Wed-Thurs. NOTE: It's possible that I'll be in...

thanks to all for adding your thoughts on this thread. I've conferred with Spencer and Jackie, and staff will be prepared to discuss this item with us in Executive Session on June 16.

Leslie

Colleagues, I want to thank the sponsors of Item 65 for the effort to put labor front and center on our Power Purchase Agreements for Austin Energy. I share the interest in leveraging our purchasing power to gain progress for our climate and workers rights goals, and I’d like to gain more informatio...

Colleagues, thanks for these posts. I join you in requesting a postponement - and if I were going to be on the dais tomorrow I'd vote to support the delay. I have serious reservations over staff's responses to my Q&A submission. As a result, I have an array of specific follow-on questions aimed ...

all, I want to draw everyone's attention to the 11-page memo from Director Meszaros received earlier today with answers to many of the questions posed so far. This is helpful in centering our discussions going forward and I appreciate staff's quick work in responding. I look forward to our conversat...

morning, all! I'd like to add my name as a co-sponsor to the CAC resolution you're initiating, CM Kitchen.

Thanks so much,

Leslie

MPT Alter, I agree that an independent, external audit of what happened is a good plan, for sure. Thanks, and I would like to co-sponsor the resolution that you and CM Fuentes are working on.

Best,

Leslie

All, I appreciate the city staff's efforts to identify and address the operational error that occurred yesterday at Ullrich, and their quick action sending out notices alerting the community about the situation and setting up water distribution sites around the city. TCEQ regulations require the cit...

Mayor, thanks for offering these amendments to items 39 & 40 to clarify Council's intent and ensure that the broad range of perspectives of those affected are noted and given space for consideration and inclusion. The amendments strengthen the resolutions and the City's partnerships within our c...

CM Tovo, I'd like to join as a co-sponsor of the resolution you're drafting relating to the action our Library Commission has recommended. I would also like to take this opportunity to highlight funding for Austin's libraries and ensure we're supporting them sufficiently in our budget planning; your...

evening, all! Thanks for starting the conversation here about the committee work we'll undertake for 2022, Mayor. I'm interested in continuing to serve in the capacities that I now hold: Council Committees Chair, Austin Energy Oversight Vice Chair, Audit and Finance Member, Austin Water Oversight Co...

Mayor and CM Alter, thanks for bringing this proposal. I support the concept of residential uses being permitted in certain commercial zoning districts. These specific amendments should make increase the possibility of live-work spaces around the city, especially in areas of high transit opportunity...

CM Kitchen and CM Tovo, I'm ready to support both of these initiatives, and would be happy to work with you on them.

Best,

Leslie

CM Alter, I fully support your comments written below, and endorse the consistent work you and our ADL friends have done in pursuit of a safe community here. Hate has no place in Austin.
Please add my name as a co-sponsor of your resolution.

In solidarity,

Leslie

Colleagues: My thanks to everyone who has posted their priorities here. I’d like to add my own. I want to express my gratitude to our Budget staff for their success in bringing us a balanced budget proposal that meets the council’s priority on increasing the City’s reserves to 14% and with only a 3....

CM Kitchen, your amendment language sounds good. It reinforces the intent of the City with regard to ATP, and - as a member of the Cap Metro board - I think it strengthens our partnership.

Leslie