Archive for the ‘City Council’ Category
Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
At 6pm on Thursday, October 11th, the City Council will decide whether to rebuild the animal shelter downtown or move it to a lot near Airport Boulevard and East 7th Street. This is becoming a bigger issue than many expected, with neighborhood groups rallying against an increasingly deaf city ...
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Monday, October 8th, 2007
A growing number of people who have ever had to interact at any level at all with city hall insiders are predicting lights out for Jennifer Kim come '08.
Folks have been grumbling in dark corners for a year and now the first challenger to step out into the light is ...
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Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Thanks to the blossoming North Loop debate we seem to be hosting, we were pointed to another fight a little further South. Local developer CW Capitol Partners put up a fake grassroots (AstroTurf) website to promote their proposed development along Town LadyBird Lake.
Even funnier is who is behind it. You ...
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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Old West Austin was ranked in the top 10 neighborhoods in the country. We don't recall how many Wal-Marts or 250+ unit apartment complexes, or VMU projects City Hall allowed out there, but we are sure there must be a few if they won such a prestigious award.
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Monday, October 1st, 2007
While Austin taxpayers dig deep to fund a Pennsylvania firm’s search for her replacement, City Manager Toby Futrell turns 53 today. The $240,600 per year manager has announced that she is leaving by next May — sooner, if certain council members have their way.
Ms Futrell will surely be honored ...
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Monday, September 24th, 2007
The Statesman ran an interesting story today about SMDs, timelines, maps and minorities.
Sarah Coppola seemed to ring the death knell for the idea since only 14 people showed up to the last meeting. CM Martinez says to wait till they draw a map and folks will start ...
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Tuesday, September 11th, 2007
Even her supporters (there must be a few out there) admit that City Manager Toby Futrell long ago crossed that invisible line between leadership and tyranny.
But in an email exchange about the city budget with Councilman Mike Martinez over the weekend, the full extent of her self-obsession was on embarrassing ...
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Sunday, September 9th, 2007
Hapless Austin city councilman Lee Leffingwell has apparently called constituents who have fallen on hard times and are in need of social services "debris."
American-Statesman reporter Kate Alexander's Sunday story about the city's proposed $2.5 billion budget points out that most of the nearly $1 million left to allocate will go ...
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Thursday, August 30th, 2007
Lackluster Lee Leffingwell told reporters earlier this week that he wants to “tweak” the city’s economic development policies to make them more transparent when handing out tax breaks to existing businesses or those who promise to relocate here. Good enough. A fair and open process would benefit everyone ...
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
When Jennifer Kim, council’s chief envoy to the Keep Austin Weird Committee, asked to be reimbursed for the fish she had purchased for her office aquarium, even the bureaucrats at City Hall must have rolled their eyes. Austin politics is a fishbowl, and asking citizens to fork over for ...
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Monday, August 27th, 2007
This email is making the rounds today. Debbie Russell makes the case for an even earlier Futrell exit...and maybe even a strong mayor form of government?
The email in its entirety after the jump:
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Monday, August 27th, 2007
At the urging of Mike Martinez, our city council is taking another close look at single member districts. They have Chartered a Commission and given former mayor Gus Garcia the reigns. I'll spare you the blow by blow, but if you want to read about it go over to InFactDaily ...
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Tuesday, August 21st, 2007
There are way to many openings here for puns and cruel jokes, so we are just gonna give it to you straight:
Brewster's gonna be all wet. Yeah, its sink or swim time for this one. He will be in over his head. That's right, you can give him ...
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Tuesday, August 21st, 2007
In Fact Daily reported last week on a city policy that we think you should know about. Apparently, the city will be purging its campaign finance records before 2005.
While we here at APR don't know that there is a grand conspiracy here, we do believe that this policy should ...
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Monday, August 20th, 2007
The jockeying for position to run for Austin Mayor in two years would be comical if not for the fact that.... well, come to think of it, it is comical. Lee Leffingwell, no one’s favorite uncle, against Brewster McCracken, everyone’s irritating kid brother.
The most recent clash came over the ...
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