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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 [...]

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Council Stiffs Reform Efforts – Mark Your Calendars!

Check and balance?  “No thanks, trust city staff to give away your tax money.  We don’t need no stinkin’ oversight!”
This was, in short, what citizens got from City Hall on the recent passage of a hollow economic incentive ordinance which dismissed the concerns of 123,000 Austin citizens who voted to stop the Domain Mall tax [...]

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