Tag Archives: Austin Music Commission
Music Commission seeks answers on lingering sound enforcement, 'agent of change' issues
The Music Commission has asked representatives from the Austin Police Department to attend its next meeting to discuss the delay in moving sound enforcement responsibilities from the police department to the city’s music office. At last week’s meeting, Rebecca Reynolds,…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Feb 10, 2020
Reporter's Notebook: The breakdown of wide-eyed, optimistic exuberance
The trouble with working groups… At the Feb. 3 meeting of the Public Safety Commission, two agenda items required the appointment of commissioners to serve on working groups. These groups are tasked with assisting the city in determining the scope…
Reporters' Notebook • By Austin Monitor • Feb 10, 2020
Reporter's Notebook: Reverse correlations
Reports of sexual assault down in 2019 for Austin and the country… Juliana Gonzales, the senior director of sexual assault services at the SAFE Alliance, came to give her monthly update to the Public Safety Commission on Jan. 6. She…
Reporters' Notebook • By Austin Monitor • Jan 13, 2020
Music working group seeks cooperation, transparency between artists and venues
Advocates for local musicians are hoping some of the city’s Hotel Occupancy Tax funds for commercial music will be used to formalize relationships between venues and artists and lead to an agreement on a living wage for performers. Monday’s meeting…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Jan 9, 2020
Music commissioners want urgency, care in spending hotel tax money for industry
Members of the Music Commission and interest groups related to the city’s music industry are pushing for quick decisions on how to spend an initial pool of Hotel Occupancy Tax dollars that City Council allocated for the city’s commercial music…
Austin • By Chad Swiatecki • Dec 9, 2019
Arts, music groups target underserved communities with $12M for creative spaces
The first draft of guidelines for how the city will allocate $12 million in bond money for creative spaces shows that priority will be given to historically underserved communities and groups that have a track record of working with marginalized…
Bonds & Propositions • By Chad Swiatecki • Nov 20, 2019
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Music commissioners push ACL Fest promoters for more local involvement, equity
Members of the Music Commission appear to have opened the door for a partnership between the city and local concert promotion giant C3 Presents to feature more Austin musicians at Austin City Limits Fest and other festivals run by the…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Nov 12, 2019
Task force to recommend uses for hotel tax money for music industry
With millions of dollars from the city’s hotel tax expected soon to be available for use by the local music industry, the Music Commission is forming a task force to advise City Council on the best way to use those…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Oct 14, 2019
Eyeing hotel tax dollars, Music Commission signs on to support convention center
With City Council set to consider two items on Thursday related to the proposed expansion of the Austin Convention Center, the Austin Music Commission voted last week to support the plan, which is projected to cost more than $1 billion…
Austin • By Chad Swiatecki • Sep 16, 2019
Reporter's Notebook: The end of Austin?
And another thing… In arguing against the proposed expansion of the Austin Convention Center at last week’s Music Commission meeting, local developer Brian Rodgers drew some confused and sideways glances from commission members. Rodgers, a Tourism Commission member who helped…
Reporters' Notebook • By Austin Monitor • Sep 16, 2019
Music Commission pushes to make park sites viable for music, arts events
Members of the Music Commission are pushing for an up-close look at city parks facilities that could be used to host music performances and other arts and cultural events in coming years. The effort is partly tied to the $12…
Parks • By Chad Swiatecki • Aug 12, 2019
By decriminalizing homelessness, Austin stumbles into legalized busking
The city’s recent changes to ordinances intended to decriminalize homelessness may have, in a roundabout way, provided a new way for Austin musicians to earn money while also ending a years-long legal stalemate. The issue in question centers around busking,…
