City of Austin Council Message Board

Council: I’m writing to give you an update on our City Manager search. As you’re aware, the application period for the City Manager search was extended and closed on Monday, February 26th. We extended the time when we determined that the next steps in the process would take place in early March. Thi...

Council: Here is my plan for the Council meeting tomorrow. We will begin promptly at 10am. We will hear public testimony on consent items. Speakers will have 2 minutes. Speakers will be able to donate time. Time may be donated for up to 4 additional minutes for 6 minutes total. Speakers wishing to d...

Council: I will be off the dais on Tuesday for our Work Session. MPT Pool will preside in my absence. This week we are posted for an Executive Session regarding our Council Appointee Evaluations. We will plan to take all Executive Session items up on Thursday, February 29th so the full Council can b...

Council: Here is my plan for the Council meeting tomorrow. We will begin promptly at 10am. We will hear public testimony on consent items. Speakers will have 2 minutes. Speakers will be able to donate time. Time may be donated for up to 4 additional minutes for 6 minutes total. Speakers wishing to d...

Council: Here is my plan for the Council meeting tomorrow. We will begin promptly at 10am. We will hear public testimony on consent items. Speakers will have 2 minutes. Speakers will be able to donate time. Time may be donated for up to 4 additional minutes for 6 minutes total. Speakers wishing to d...

As you know, this committee does not have a full membership. I’ve discussed it with Mayor Pro Tem, who chairs the committee, and I will fill the open spot.

Thanks.

Kirk

On behalf of Mayor Watson

Colleagues, I know that each and every one of us would like to be physically present to recognize and support the survivor plaintiffs today at City Hall. As the City Attorney Anne Morgan has indicated, we cannot all attend today’s ceremony for violation of the Texas Open Meetings Act (TOMA). That be...

Council: I’ve cancelled my travel to Washington, D.C., for the U.S. Conference of Mayors due to weather related travel cancelations and delays and all that we have going on here in Austin. Thank you to Mayor Pro Tem Pool for her willingness to step in and preside in my absence. Here is my plan for t...

Council:

My goal is to provide these lists to the City Clerk under the procedures for Friday morning.

http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 112251.pdf

http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 112344.pdf

Thanks,

Kirk

On behalf of Mayor Watson

Council Members: Because of the winter weather and our efforts related to it, I delayed going to D.C. for the U.S. Conference of Mayors. I'll be at the Work Session in the morning at 9:00 AM. I also want to update you a little bit about the weather and what’s going on. We’ve now experienced some of ...

The first extreme winter weather storm of this year arrives later tonight. Temperatures have been in the 20s all day today, but it’s been feeling like somewhere in the teens, and it’s only getting colder. The National Weather Service is now predicting a higher chance of precipitation like freezing r...

Council: Thank you for sharing your input on Council committee assignments and intergovernmental entity appointments. I am including an updated redline version of the Council committee assignments for 2024. This version incorporates previous changes and redlines new changes. I want to bring to your ...

Council:

Please see version 2 of the intergovernmental body appointments document. This version corrects an error.

http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 163204.pdf

Kirk

On behalf of Mayor Watson

Council Members: I will be at the U.S. Conference of Mayors next week. I have some speaking roles and meetings with federal officials scheduled, along with attending various meetings that are part of the general conference. Mayor Pro Tem Pool will preside at the work session and council meeting. I w...

Council Members: As promised, I’m forwarding a redline version of the proposed list of city council committees and other appointments of council members. This version includes all the input that’s been received by posts on the message board. I’ll call attention to the Housing and Planning Committee....

Council Members: I hope everyone is having a great holiday season. I’m looking forward to the upcoming new year. And as we prepare to start that new year, I want to give a general update on our national City Manager search that’s being led by Mosaic Public Partners. Council Members Pool, Fuentes, Ve...

Council: Here is my plan for the Council meeting tomorrow. We will begin promptly at 10am. We will hear public testimony on consent items. Speakers will have 2 minutes. Speakers will be able to donate time. Time may be donated for up to 4 additional minutes for 6 minutes total. Speakers wishing to d...

Colleagues,

Please see the redline version 2 of my proposed amendment.

http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 141054.pdf

Thanks,

Kirk
On behalf of Mayor Watson

Council: Here is my plan for the Special Called City Council meeting tomorrow. We will begin promptly at 10am. We will begin with brief remarks from staff. I will then call on Council Members to layout any proposed amendments. This will allow for transparency on what is being considered. While we wo...

Council Members, As we approach the end of the year, we need to organize Council Committee assignments and assignments from the Council to intergovernmental bodies for 2024. The plan would be for the Council to discuss this at our upcoming Work Session on December 12, 2023, but not take action until...

Colleagues, As you know, this week, we will be having a special-called Council meeting to discuss the proposed HOME ordinance. Before Thursday, I wanted to share an amendment that I plan on presenting at our meeting. During the Planning Commission meeting last month, there was a recommendation to in...

Council: Here is my plan for the Council meeting tomorrow. We will begin promptly at 10am. We will hear public testimony on consent items. Speakers will have 2 minutes. Speakers will be able to donate time. Time may be donated for up to 4 minutes for 6 minutes total. Speakers wishing to donate time ...

Council Members: I’m sorry to start your day this way. At approximately 4:10 this morning, we had an Officer involved shooting in South Austin. One of our SWAT Officers is dead. Another Officer was shot and is in surgery at Dell Seton Medical Center. There were two deceased people found in the house...

Council: Here is my plan for the Council meeting tomorrow. We will begin promptly at 10am. We will hear public testimony on consent items. Speakers will have 2 minutes. Speakers will be able to donate time. Time may be donated for up to 4 minutes of donated time or 6 minutes total time for the speak...

Council: Here is my proposed schedule for the Work Session tomorrow, November 7th, 2023. We will begin promptly at 9am. We will start the day with items pulled for discussion. Items 6,16, and 15 have been pulled at this time. We will then hear the briefings on items B2 and B3. Following the briefing...