Tag Archives: Bond Election Advisory Task Force

City management cautions against 2025 bond election

A 2025 bond election would reduce available funding for a comprehensive bond election in 2026, according to a memo from Assistant City Manager Robert Goode sent to City Council through City Manager T.C. Broadnax. The memo offers reasons that Council…

Bonds & Propositions • By Jo Clifton • Jan 17, 2025

Task force: Bond decisions up to Council

The city’s 2018 Bond Election Advisory Task Force sent a recommendation to City Council for a November bond ballot of $851 million – more than $200 million above the amount recommended by city staff, and one that is estimated to…

Bonds & Propositions • By Jo Clifton • Apr 11, 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…