ITEMS 2 11 12 30 39 52 58 60 61 62 63 TickTock for Friday, October 7, 2016 Participants: MKanin 164 JacobDirr 2 eraycollins 1 marieacunaa 1 brennangriffin 1 lubomudrov 1 PointAustin 1 Thursday, October 06, 2016 9AM Checking in from #atxcouncil where yours truly is hoping things end in time for me to take […]
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Union talk makes arts funding approval rancorous
After more than two hours of often angry and conflicting testimony about the state of labor relations at the ZACH Theatre, City Council on Thursday approved the cultural arts services contract for the upcoming year with a number of controversial amendments that were reworked during the day. The agreement covers eight nonprofit organizations – ZACH, […]
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City Council debates coyotes
City Council spent most of the morning Thursday discussing what to do about coyotes. Council was asked by city staff to approve an ordinance that would authorize the Animal Services Department to negotiate and execute a contract with Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Services-Wildlife Services (otherwise referred to as Texas Wildlife Services) to assist in the […]
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Nightclub developer wins suit against city
City Council will consider on Thursday whether to pay $126,400 to the developer of an east side nightclub whose fiscal surety was released to the wrong person. The case made its way through the courts, the nightclub owner won, and it seems unlikely that Council will decline to pay. In 2005, Edilberto Portillo submitted a […]
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Judge considers Rodgers’ Pilot Knob claims
How much notice should the City Council agenda provide to citizens who want to know what Council is doing that may impact their taxes and water rates? That’s one of the questions Judge Stephen Yelenosky will have to answer when he rules on Brian Rodgers’ lawsuit against the city of Austin. Yelenosky heard arguments on […]
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Tovo, Garza to help fund downtown toilet project
Downtown Austin has scores of restaurants, bars and shops, but what it does not have is strategically located public toilets. That deficiency has proved problematic for any number of people, including the homeless and late-night visitors on the streets after bars have closed. City Council passed a resolution back in January citing the need for […]
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Stagehands at ZACH Theatre ask city to step into wage fight
Although they’re used to being behind the scenes, the stagehands from ZACH Theatre are going public with their requests for more equitable pay. On Sept. 1, representatives of the stagehands asked City Council to put stipulations on cultural organizations like ZACH Theatre requiring that they pay fair and stable wages. This is the first campaign […]
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City commissions move closer to gender balance
In Austin’s first election featuring geographic, single-member districts, voters sent seven women and four men (including the mayor) to the new 10-1 City Council, making the capital of Texas the first major U.S. city governed by a majority-female elected body. The new Council has also come closer to achieving gender parity on citizen commissions, the […]
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TickTock: Austin City Council meeting 9.1.2016
ITEMS 2 4 10 14 22 25 29 34 37 44 45 46 47 48 50 51 TickTock for Friday, September 2, 2016 Participants: MKanin 174 scATX 1 neville_park 1 eraycollins 1 StephanieKTrinh 1 davidahartman 1 PointAustin 1 Thursday, September 01, 2016 10AM Checking in from #atxcouncil where we’re watching ALL kinds of stuff. More […]
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Who’s building Austin? As city grows, construction workers are getting left behind
At the end of the workday in downtown Austin, streams of construction workers start pouring out of the city. They spend their days building the condos and office buildings that will make up the new Austin, but they go home to surrounding suburbs and cities where they can afford to live. Much has been made […]
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Biz groups oppose more rules for permitting
Four Austin business groups are opposing a plan to require extra steps in the city’s permit review process. The steps would lead to more protection for construction workers, but they would also involve extra time and paperwork as well as additional fees on projects going through the proposed expedited review process at the Development Services […]
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Austin Monitor Radio: D7 Candidate Natalie Gauldin
District 7 Council candidate Natalie Gauldin joins Austin Monitor publisher Mike Kanin to chat about her campaign. The show is embedded below. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/280279859″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /]