Elizabeth Pagano

According to a report by KXAN, the city’s chief animal services officer, who was heading up the department on an interim basis, is leaving her position to work at a nonprofit. Lee Ann Shenefiel, who was appointed to the position at Austin Animal Center after Tawny Hammond vacated it in May 2017, will leave her […]

Have any tree-related questions for the city? Starting Jan. 2, the Development Assistance Center has changed the walk-in hours for tree consultations. Walk-in hours are now Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. until noon, on the first floor of One Texas Center, 505 Barton Springs Road.

Austin is on the verge of adopting a new Special Events Ordinance, but there is still time to make comments on the new rules, which were years in the making. The Austin Center for Events is set to adopt the new rules on or after Jan. 19, but comments from the public that are submitted […]

Yesterday, Travis County Clerk Dana DeBeauvoir announced that Geetha Lingham will serve as division director for the Elections Division of the County Clerk’s Office, effective Jan. 16. “Geetha Lingham is a veteran of the elections field and I am proud to ask her to continue serving the residents of Travis County in a new role […]

As long as there is no additional flooding (an unlikely prospect), Barton Springs Pool is set to reopen today at noon. According to the city’s Parks and Recreation Department, the pool will remain open on Thursday, its normal cleaning day. Stalwart Deep Eddy Pool will resume normal operating hours on Thursday, Jan. 10.

In less headline-grabbing news, Austin’s new soccer club, Austin FC, finalized its office space yesterday, signing a lease for space near the Domain. According to a press release about the move, “The club anticipates moving staff into the leased space in February 2019 after the suite is prepared for occupancy. Austin FC will begin operations […]

The city will conduct its annual Point in Time Count of those experiencing homelessness at the end of this month, and organizers are looking for volunteers to help. The count, which is held each year to gather information used in city policies and for federal Housing and Urban Development funding, will take place on the […]

Happy Holidays, dear readers. To celebrate the season, the Austin Monitor will be taking time to reflect back on the past year and look ahead to the next, running our traditional end-of-year interviews in the meantime. We look forward to resuming regular content in the new year.

Barton Springs Pool will remain closed pending final test results, which will be received today. The pool was closed Wednesday, Dec. 19, due to “an unusual level of turbidity” in the water, the cause of which is not yet known. To accommodate early swimmers, Deep Eddy Pool will open at 6 a.m.

The Austin Parks Foundation announced yesterday that it will award $250,000 in a matching grant to the Norwood Park Foundation to pay for the ongoing restoration of the 1922 Norwood Home, which overlooks the south side of Lady Bird Lake just west of Interstate 35. A press release from the Austin Parks Foundation notes that the […]

The Austin Independent School District’s Board of Trustees voted Monday to rename Fulmore Middle School after Sarah Lively, who was a teacher in the district. The school’s original namesake, Zachary Taylor Fulmore, was a private in the Confederate Army. AISD and the city of Austin have been evaluating the legacy of Confederate names for more […]

City Council voted to expand the city’s downtown public improvement district boundary to include Third + Shoal, a 29-story building developed by TIER REIT Inc. and Cielo Property Group. The development partners formally requested inclusion in the PID in November. The properties in the downtown district, which was created in 1993, are assessed an additional 10 […]