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 their development plans, like they do in other cities. But that item wasn’t in the 2% up for dialogue.
Watch this short video.
We’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments section below.
Make sure you mark your calendar for our upcoming volunteer meeting on Thursday, July 15th, 6:30 to 8:30 pm at the Carver Library. (We’ll do a followup on property tax protests there too.)
There’s more to tell you about historic property tax giveaways to some of Austin’s wealthiest, the new coalition working for police accountability and open government, congrats to TAG and, taking the cake this month is the City’s decision to spend $44 million more wasted taxpayer dollars to build th $1.3 billion Water Treatment Plant #4. Never mind the wasted water, right?
Growth must pay for itself y’all, before they run us all outta town!
Check out the rest of our first newsletter and watch our new videos here. Pass it on.
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 subsidies last year.
Read it here at AustinPost.org and please share your comments — but keep it clean!
Mark your calendars, folks for our first quarterly meeting — November 7, from 3 to 5 pm. Location to be announced.
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