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Bonds & Propositions
Music Commission's 'hub' concept prompts request for $15M bond increase
The Austin Music Commission is asking City Council to add $15 million to November’s bond package to buy or build property that could be used as a music hub to support the city’s flagging music industry. At Monday’s meeting the…
Bonds & Propositions • By Chad Swiatecki • Apr 4, 2018
Arts Commission seeks $25M bond increase to fund 'adaptive' creative space
The Arts Commission has asked City Council to add $25 million to this fall’s infrastructure bond package. The money would be used to provide more rehearsal and performance space for arts groups that are quickly running out of usable space…
Bonds & Propositions • By Chad Swiatecki • Mar 29, 2018
Council members push for $300M affordable housing bond
If Austin is going to do something about its affordability crisis, many on City Council believe that it will take a massive infusion of public funds to build housing that is affordable to low-income and working-class residents. To that end,…
Bonds & Propositions • By Jack Craver • Mar 29, 2018
MACC seeks full expansion cost – up to $40M – in fall bond election
The advisory board for the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center will ask members of City Council to more than double the $15 million that was recently recommended to be provided to the center from an expected fall bond…
Bonds & Propositions • By Chad Swiatecki • Mar 14, 2018
UTC calls on Council to fund east side urban trails
The Urban Transportation Commission on Wednesday night called on City Council to put potentially millions of dollars’ worth of of east side urban trail projects on the November ballot. The four projects would fill in gaps in the existing and…
Bonds & Propositions • By Caleb Pritchard • Mar 12, 2018
City unveils proposed Corridor Construction Program
The long-awaited proposed Corridor Construction Program, the road map to Mayor Steve Adler’s Smart Corridor Plan that he’s now touting as potentially “genius,” is finally out of the stable. The city’s Corridor Program Office has been working to develop the…
Bonds & Propositions • By Caleb Pritchard • Feb 8, 2018
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2012 APD bond projects appear to be stalled on many sides
Generally, if a bond is issued with a specific project in mind, when the money is awarded, the city gives a project team five years to complete whatever project the taxpayers are funding. That is, of course, unless the costs…
Bonds & Propositions • By Jessi Devenyns • Feb 2, 2018
Bond session puts focus on neglect of East Austin infrastructure
Affordable housing, upkeep of parks and cultural centers, and assorted infrastructure projects were some of the more popular civic needs advocated for by residents Wednesday night in the third of a series of town hall forums on the bond package…
Bonds & Propositions • By Chad Swiatecki • Jan 22, 2018
How big of a bond will Austin voters support?
This November, Austin voters going to the polls to vote for mayor, governor and a variety of other city, state and federal positions will likely be asked to approve a bond package worth hundreds of millions of dollars that will…
Bonds & Propositions • By Jack Craver • Jan 11, 2018
AISD and Travis County bonds win easy victories
AISD Voters resoundingly supported the Austin Independent School District bond, which maintained a wide margin of victory all Tuesday evening. In the end, 72.06 percent voted in favor of the bond. Austin ISD posed a $1.05 billion bond question to…
Bonds & Propositions • By KUT News • Nov 8, 2017
AISD board and east side group dispute bond tax rate
The Austin Independent School District Board of Trustees has hedged its bet on passing the largest bond in the district’s history by asserting that it will not raise the tax rate. At its Sept. 25 meeting, however, the board was…
Bonds & Propositions • By Joseph Caterine • Sep 28, 2017
East versus West: Who wins with the Austin ISD bond?
The Austin Independent School District has a $1 billion bond that voters will be asked to approve this November. The bond would pay for projects at schools all over the district, but there’s a difference between funding for schools on…
