Austin's budget surplus comes with a long list of asks from City Council.
This pocket park on Tillery Street was acquired with parkland dedication fees paid by residential developers. Council Member Natasha Harper-Madison wants to freeze these fees for a year to help reduce the cost of building new housing. At the same time, the city is preparing to levy park fees for the first time on commercial development, reasoning that people who come into town to work and play also use the city's parks.
It took a little longer than usual for the haggling phase of the fiscal year 2023 budget season to begin in earnest, but begun it has. City Council will convene on Wednesday, Aug. 17 for the budget adoption ritual, with additional meetings the next two days if needed, which I'm guessing, as I write this, they won't be.
It took a minute for Council offices to reorient themselves when City Manager Spencer Cronk, who for several years had been warning Council that lean budget times were in the offing thanks to state-mandated caps on property tax revenue, instead rolled out a proposed budget July 15 filled with surplus as Austin rebounds from the COVID-19 recession with a vengeance.
Now, Cronk's perspective as the city's CEO surely informs his desire to invest in the city's workforce, which ultimately makes his job easier, and I have no qualms about putting some money behind the general good vibes Austin has when it comes to government work.
, defending reproductive health services, and ensuring the fire/EMS station in Goodnight Ranch, one of several huge master planned developments in her district, opens on schedule.Vela's priorities as the newest CM include a $22-per-hour base wage for EMS –"The people we depend on in our worst days are living on the edge of poverty to help us. We must act now to help them.
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