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City Budget Charades
We recently attended the city’s only budget charade, uh we mean charrette. City staff must have outnumbered the audience 3 to 1. Just 2% of the budget was up for discussion to close the City’s $11 to $28 million shortfall.
ChangeAustin.org came up with an easy $14 million by having developers pay fees to process [...]
Don’t Miss This Thursday, 6 pm!
Does Austin need a new
$1 billion water plant?
Watch the Debate on Proposed Water Treatment Plant
Thursday, September 17th, 6pm
900 Barton Springs Rd. click here for map
Palmer Event Center
The City Council will host a Town Hall dialogue and debate featuring Austin’s environmental leaders, including our own Brian Rodgers, on whether Austin should commit a billion dollars to building [...]
You can lead officials to millions, but…
..you can’t make ‘em blink.
Brian Rodgers at the County Commissioners Court, July 16
The Short Story
The Travis County Commissioners Court has so far refused to call for a full audit and to file a formal challenge to the under-valuations of commercial properties in Travis County. But some smaller taxing authorities (who, will remain anonymous at the [...]
