City of Austin Council Message Board

CM Casar, Looks like you will soon be MPT Casar. I look forward to seeing you in this important role and you have my complete confidence. Buena suerte companero and of course reach out for any speedy/efficient meeting management tips. I'll be disappointed if you ever go past 10. All my best, MPT Garza

Here are the items we have left. Council can take these up in any order. Pulled Items: 14 – participation agreement for ET3 model 20 – Downtown Community Court lease 34 – Tree Contract Non Consent 44 – AHFC 45 – withdrawn (replaced with item 74) 72 – from A&F Committee – Downtown Commission Byla...

Colleagues, Here is the general plan for the 11/12 Council Meeting. - In the morning, we will hear the 5 speakers signed up. Each speaker will get 3 minutes. - Noon - Citizen Communication - 4 speakers are signed up and each will get 3 minutes. - Lunch break after the Citizen Communication Speakers....

CM Casar,

I support what you have laid out and would like to second the motion you make tomorrow adding this as the base motion.

All my best,

Delia

Colleagues, Thank you all for your careful deliberations during this budget process. As I’ve stated before, I cannot vote for a budget that does not cement our commitment to reimagining public safety by moving significant funds from APD into investments in our community. I’m very proud to stand with...

Council Member Casar, I am proud to put this forth with you and Council Member Harper-Madison, and I appreciate our colleagues’ consideration of this plan. We committed to big, transformational change to public safety in Austin, change that directly addresses the challenges that for too long our bud...

This post is in response to Budget staff asking us to begin laying out our budget priorities. The most immediate priority for our budget discussions this year is clearly how we begin reimagining public safety. It’s exciting to see so many proposals come out of the numerous conversations I’ve been pa...

Thank you Mayor for posting our thoughts as a general framework to get the conversation going. I do want to just emphasize that before making any decisions Monday, I will need to have an understanding of what specific projects are included in the plan we move forward (e.g. which park and rides and n...

Colleagues, Racial justice requires action and policy change, not just words and studies and reports, as important as those often are. My office has been working on Item 50 for the past few weeks and I had already posted an item on the June 11 agenda that works toward institutional change and accoun...

I support both of CM Flannigan’s and CM Ellis’ amendments.

Thanks,

Delia

First, thank you to all who have worked on this item. I am offering the following amendments and I hope they would be considered friendly. I appreciated the discussion yesterday pointing out the work our staff has already done and how there is a need and desire to emphasize equity in this broader ap...

Mayor,

I am available Friday. I agree there are pressing and important APD issues we should discuss ASAP.

Delia

Updated Resolution for Item #33 can be found here:
http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 114905.pdf

Updated Resolution can be found here:
http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 105841.pdf

Thanks to everyone for the discussion yesterday. I intend to add seniors among the populations we want to target with the aid in this resolution, and I will be adding language to include the delivery of essential hygiene as a direct relief service. Thank you CMs Alter and Kitchen for those suggested...

Afternoon colleagues, Item 30 addresses the problem of wealth-based detention in our local criminal legal system. It is entirely within the policy purview of our council to have, at a minimum, a say in what is included in the magistration ILA negotiation/discussion. This resolution builds on the wor...

Thank you for the response. We have decided to create a separate resolution for the financial aid programmatic direction/policy. I hope to post a draft of that by the end of today. I believe we are capped at co-sponsors already but will post all confirmed co-sponsors along w draft. There are a lot o...

Colleagues, I'm heartened by all the hard work you all and City staff have already put in on our COVID-19 response, but we know there is a lot more work ahead. As we discussed in our meeting last Thursday, we need to consider direct financial assistance to our residents. Now that the $2 trillion fed...

CM Tovo,

Thanks for adding these. I just posted under a new topic (COVID19 Response) about the Success by 6 requests. I was worried some of us were duplicating efforts. I hope we can find a way to be most efficient during this time. I look forward to the discussion next week.

Delia

Colleagues, CM Kitchen mentioned in the thread about our next meeting the need for a briefing on our COVID19 response. I agree we need this briefing. At that briefing I think it’s also important to talk about the most efficient way to address the many requests for assistance we are each getting. I d...

Colleagues, Thank you Mayor Adler for your suggestions so that we can be most efficient at our upcoming meeting. I could agree to postponing Item 56 on the posted 3/26 agenda if anyone thinks there would be significant discussion. The resolution is pretty straight forward but I understand if there a...

Dear colleagues, I would like to share with you all the amendments (3) I will be bringing forward. 1.EQUITY OVERLAY BOUNDARIES: The area for the overlay should be delineated by the vulnerability map in the UT Uprooted study. Staff has already proposed this in their report. PRESERVE EXISTING MULTIFAM...

Colleagues, Thank you to folks who have begun laying out potential code direction. We all know that the land development code is a major opportunity to address our city’s inequitable land development patterns that have pushed development into our black and brown neighborhoods. It’s imperative that w...

Good morning colleagues and Happy Halloween, This morning I am attending a school event with my daughter so I will be about an hour late to our meeting today. I originally planned to pull Item 2 to add the direction I discussed at work session. My staff will pass out the direction on the dais. If th...

After consideration of the proposed ordinance language and proposed substitute language for Item 29, and after review with local advocates and experts with the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty, Mayor Pro Tem Garza would like to propose amendments to Mayor Adler’s substitute language...