City Council Member Kathie Tovo has been working on resolutions intended to ensure that city staff follow certain policies when renting or selling city property. The policies relate to the requirements for construction projects, living wage, minority and women-owned business requirements, affordable housing and child care facilities. After staff posed numerous questions and expressed concern […]
Building Services Department
This city department is responsible for providing facilities planning, custodial services, repairs, security, and mail services, among other things.
Posted inEnvironment
Austin bird initiative takes flight
Bella Ramos is a birder. While she acknowledges that there may be more experienced and knowledgeable birders, she says she is “obsessed with birds.” Ramos and her bird-loving friends had even been turning off their lights to protect migrating birds years before the city of Austin passed a resolution to do so. Now the ordinary, non-birding […]
Posted inPolice
Downtown Commission hears plans for APD headquarters relocation
Alex Gale from the city’s Office of Real Estate Services and Darrell Alexander from the Building Services Department spoke to the Downtown Commission Wednesday on the relocation of the Austin Police Department headquarters. Gale explained that Council had given direction to the city manager to search for a suitable space – potentially an existing, underused space […]