Stories by Josh Rosenblatt
Place 3 challenger takes heat during Council radio debate
If the best way to gauge how well you’re doing in a political campaign is by counting how many of your opponents are coming after you, Kathie Tovo may one day look back at yesterday’s City Council Place 3 radio…
Uncategorized • By Josh Rosenblatt • May 5, 2011
Board of Adjustment rejects appeals of short-term rental rulings
What is the meaning of the word “transient”? That was the big question at a special called meeting of the Board of Adjustment last week. At that meeting, the board considered and rejected appeals by two residents of the…
Uncategorized • By Josh Rosenblatt • May 3, 2011
Council hears long-awaited historic preservation recommendations
Nearly a year after passing a resolution directing the city manager to prepare recommendations to improve Austin’s historic preservation program, City Council got its first look at what a newly designed program might look like at its meeting last Thursday.…
Uncategorized • By Josh Rosenblatt • May 2, 2011
Flawed RFP process dooms Holly decommissioning to more delays
The long-awaited decommissioning of the Holly Street Power Plant has been put on hold again. At their meeting yesterday, City Council voted to postpone the execution of a contract in order to better understand problems with the project’s Request for…
Uncategorized • By Josh Rosenblatt • Apr 29, 2011
City auditor questions financials of convention center service provider
Once again, the city’s Convention Center is the focus of urgent questions from the City Auditor’s Office. On Tuesday, members of the City Auditor’s Office told the Council Audit and Finance Committee that the Convention Center can’t assure the…
Uncategorized • By Josh Rosenblatt • Apr 27, 2011
First look: city needs 3-cent tax hike to fill budget gap for 2012
With the Budget Office projecting a $9.8 million shortfall, it looks like FY2012 is going to be another year of belt-tightening for Austin. At a presentation before Council this morning, CFO Leslie Browder, Budget Officer Ed Van Eenoo and economic…
Uncategorized • By Josh Rosenblatt • Apr 20, 2011
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Place 3 candidates talk water, growth at Save Barton Creek forum
City Council Place 3 candidates got to talk about their water conservation bona fides last Thursday at a South Austin forum hosted by the Save Barton Creek Association. The forum seemed custom made for challenger Max Nofziger. The Save…
Uncategorized • By Josh Rosenblatt • Apr 18, 2011
Commission set to consider changes to historic landmark program
Nearly a year after City Council passed a resolution directing the city manager and the Historic Landmark Commission to come up with recommendations to improve the city’s historic landmark program, the commission is set to vote on those recommendations this…
Uncategorized • By Josh Rosenblatt • Apr 11, 2011
Council establishes rules for personal cell phones and email accounts
Moving forward with their plan to ensure more transparency in city government, the City Council took their first real step toward clarifying one of the more complicated areas of open records law yesterday: how to treat communications dealing with city…
Uncategorized • By Josh Rosenblatt • Apr 8, 2011
Place 3 candidates make their cases to Austin Republicans
After weeks of courting Democratic groups, City Council candidates crossed the aisle yesterday, taking their messages to a forum hosted by the Republican Club of Austin. Forum moderator and club President Dewayne Naumann told In Fact Daily that the…
Uncategorized • By Josh Rosenblatt • Apr 6, 2011
Place 3 Council candidates weigh in on historic landmark ordinance
If all goes according to plan, next week the Historic Landmark Commission will at long last vote on changes to the city’s historic landmark ordinance. Those changes, which were originally supposed to be ready at the beginning of the year,…
Uncategorized • By Josh Rosenblatt • Apr 4, 2011
Council tentatively OKs new private email rules
City Council made its first move toward creating new policy related to open government issues yesterday. By a 6-0 vote, Council directed city staff to come up with a rough draft of a resolution that would establish how Council members…
