ITEMS 2 9 21 25 29 48 54 58 59 82 90 94 95 TickTock for Monday, August 22, 2016 Participants: MKanin 268 eraycollins 5 DanKeshet 3 ndhapple 3 StephanieKTrinh 2 nanciwilson 1 jasoncherkis 1 cubbie9000 1 cbrendonriggs 1 Thursday, August 18, 2016 9AM eraycollins “I’m waiting to pounce on that keep Kanin tweeting link, […]
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TickTock: Austin City Council meeting 8.4.2016
TickTock is the sortable-by-item-number transcript of Austin Monitor publisher Mike Kanin’s Twitter feed from City Council. Click on the item number to scroll to the corresponding tweets. ITEMS 3 5 8 9 10 14 21 25 28 31 32 33 47 66 70 79 80 TickTock for Friday, August 5, 2016 Participants: MKanin 142 eraycollins […]
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Austin libraries not giving up on CDs
Even in the Live Music Capital of the World, there are undoubtedly plenty of people who haven’t bought a physical music album in years. All Austinites, however, continue to buy compact discs through their taxes. On Thursday, City Council approved a contract with a vendor to provide thousands more music albums to the city’s 22 […]
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Council to consider videoconferencing for public testimony
In a quest to simplify the lives of constituents while easing some downtown traffic, City Council Member Don Zimmerman has proposed testing out videoconferencing for citizens communication during Council meetings. “I have a lot of constituents complaining about parking problems and just the delays trying to get down to testify,” said Zimmerman, who represents District […]
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Suit: Pilot Knob vote violated state, federal law
Civic activist Brian Rodgers has amended the lawsuit he initially filed in February against the city of Austin, challenging the city’s entire scheme for financing water and wastewater improvements at the controversial Pilot Knob development in Southeast Travis County. Rodgers’ lawsuit, filed by attorneys Bill Aleshire and Roger Borgelt, claims that City Council violated both […]
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TickTock: Austin City Council meeting 6.23.16
TickTock is the sortable-by-item-number transcript of Austin Monitor publisher Mike Kanin’s Twitter feed from City Council. Click on the item number to scroll to the corresponding tweets. ITEMS 1 2 20 30 56 57 65 66 70 74 75 76 79 82 83 85 87 90 92 100 TickTock for Friday, June 24, 2016 Participants: […]
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TickTock: Austin City Council meeting 6.16.2016
TickTock is the sortable-by-item-number transcript of Austin Monitor publisher Mike Kanin’s Twitter feed from City Council. Click on the item number to scroll to the corresponding tweets. ITEMS 4 10 23 25 29 30 33 35 40 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 50 52 53 54 55 58 59 60 61 62 63 […]
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Council seeks to reverse decision on Hays County emergency service district
It wasn’t just Austinites who were inconvenienced by the absence of Mayor Steve Adler and two City Council members during last week’s Council meeting. Several dozen families who live in a 5-acre area of Hays County that is located within Austin’s extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ) may not be able to vote on whether to join a […]
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Austin Monitor Radio: 2016 transportation bond?
Austin Monitor freelancer Caleb Pritchard hosts Austin Mayor Steve Adler’s communications director Jason Stanford for a conversation about a potential 2016 City of Austin transportation bond. Sponsored by Austin Water. Post is embedded below. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/268964073″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /] Clarification: At about 16 minutes and 30 seconds into the show, Stanford mentions that […]
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TickTock: Austin City Council Meeting 6.9.2016
TickTock is the sortable-by-item-number transcript of Austin Monitor publisher Mike Kanin’s Twitter feed from City Council. Click on the item number to scroll to the corresponding tweets. ITEMS 5 10 11 15 17 36 38 39 40 42 47 53 54 55 63 66 68 69 71 TickTock for Thursday, June 9, 2016 Participants: MKanin […]
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Mayor’s absence causes Council headaches
City Council can conduct its business without the mayor and two Council members. But a tedious morning session on Thursday proved that it’s not necessarily easy. The absence of Mayor Steve Adler and Council members Delia Garza and Ann Kitchen, all of whom are in Washington, D.C., giving a presentation relating to Austin’s bid for […]
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Council OKs contract for impact fee study
With City Council Member Don Zimmerman opposed, Council voted 7-1 Thursday to award a $1.18 million contract for a transportation impact fee study to Kimley-Horn and Associates Inc. in anticipation of adopting developer impact fees to pay for street improvements as the city grows. Council members Delia Garza and Ann Kitchen along with Mayor Steve […]