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Water Utility director warns Council of potential need for drought rates
Austin Water Utility Director Greg Meszaros told Council members Wednesday that the potential arrival of Stage 4 water restrictions next spring could force the utility to consider employing drought rates for water service. “We could not sustain ourselves financially under…
Uncategorized • By Michael Kanin • Aug 22, 2013
Austin Energy faces cost overruns on IBM-based billing system
Austin Energy finds itself, in the words of Electric Utility Commission Chair “Bernie” Bernfeld, “over a barrel.” At issue is the much-delayed $61 million redesign of the utility’s billing system, and a cost escalation for necessary work on the…
Uncategorized • By Michael Kanin • Aug 22, 2013
Proposal would hike city departments’ administrative costs by $10 million
City of Austin departments would take on nearly $10 million in new support appropriations charges under the proposed FY2014 budget year. That figure – the one assessed by staff to other city departments to account for their share of administrative…
Uncategorized • By Michael Kanin • Aug 21, 2013
Planning Commission passes on amendments to SOS Ordinance
Proposed amendments to the Save Our Springs Ordinance that would allow more development in South Austin than allowed under the current ordinance passed through an almost-mute Planning Commission last week. City Council initiated the amendments for the two developments…
Uncategorized • By Elizabeth Pagano • Aug 21, 2013
Gómez wants to speed up widening of roads near COTA facility
Travis County Commissioner Pct. 4 Margaret Gómez says her proposal to expand roads in southeast Travis County is about safety, business development, and job creation, but some of her critics charge that she is pandering to the Circuit of the…
Uncategorized • By Charlotte Moore • Aug 21, 2013
Leffingwell backs budget cuts in all but public safety agencies
For the second year in a row, Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell called for across-the-board cuts for all City of Austin General Fund departments, excepting the city’s three public safety agencies. Leffingwell told In Fact Daily during a break in Monday’s…
Uncategorized • By Michael Kanin • Aug 20, 2013
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Planning Commission OKs waivers for East Austin apartment project
Persistence paid off for developers of an east side project at the Planning Commission last Tuesday. Despite an initial vote against their request, they were able to turn things around in the end. The Chestnut Neighborhood Revitalization Corporation was…
Uncategorized • By Elizabeth Pagano • Aug 20, 2013
Austin Energy proposes new fee for extending lines
Austin Energy has proposed a major change to the way it charges – or doesn’t charge – for line extensions. If approved, the action would eventually assess a fee equal to 75 percent of the cost for constructing new lines…
Uncategorized • By Michael Kanin • Aug 19, 2013
Commissioners to hear contentious Overlook Estates case again
Progress in Austin again reaches a standoff with neighbors in one Southwest Travis County community holding steadfast to their positions in a battle over development. At issue is a new high-end community called Overlook Estates, owned by the Roy…
Uncategorized • By Charlotte Moore • Aug 19, 2013
Board of Adjustment OKs changes to historic Mather-Kirkland House
Plans to reconstruct an open-air viewing tower on the historic Mather-Kirkland House will finally be moving ahead, thanks to a variance from the Board of Adjustment. The plans were originally approved in 2003, as part of a historic reconstruction…
Uncategorized • By Elizabeth Pagano • Aug 19, 2013
Austinites sound off in redistricting commission’s first public hearing
The Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission held its first public forum Wednesday night. The meeting was the first of the commission’s public meetings intended to solicit community input about drawing 10 single-member-district maps. The commission was looking for input on…
Uncategorized • By Elizabeth Pagano • Aug 16, 2013
Study suggests new metrics for determining number of police officers
The perennial discussion of how the Austin Police Department should determine the appropriate number of officers it should hire to serve the City of Austin took something of a turn on Wednesday. There, referring to the findings of a police…
