City Council Budget Work Session
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What does the council chair say at the beginning of the meeting?
You're watching a meeting of the Austin City Council. Від Mayor Kirk Watson. Mayor Pro Tim Cheetovela. Council members Natasha Harper Madison. Vanessa Fuentes. Jose Velásquez Ryan Alter. Crystal name. Mike Siegel. Paige Ellis Zoe Codri. Mark Duchin. City Attorney Deborah Thomas, City Clerk Erica Brady, and City Manager T. C. Broadnacks. Good morning everybody. It's ten o'clock in the morning on july twenty second, twenty twenty six, and I'll call
to order this Austin City Council budget meeting. Uh we have a quorum of the city council present. We are meeting in City Hall
in the Council Chambers at three oh one West Second Street in Austin, Texas. Uh before we get s the way we're gonna proceed today, uh Council members and and public is what we're gonna do is we're gonna call on the speakers that we have signed up to speak first, hear from all the speakers, and then we will go to the two agenda items. And uh because the two agenda items are basically the same item, um we're just gonna go Item one and item two for the with with regard to the speakers. Before we do that, um and let me just also say that the way uh I think we'll approach when we get to the questions after the briefing that uh our professional staff gives us, what we will do is we will then go first to uh
staff with community health and sustainability and allow the council members to ask whatever questions they have in that regard. Then once that's complete, we will go to homelessness and housing. Once that's complete, we will then go to social services contracts. Before we begin that part of it Um let me again remind everyone and anyone that uh watches this about how we're moving forward in this budget process. Uh as everybody knows today is July twenty second and that's going to be the work session, the council budget work session that we have on uh social services and as I've just indicated, community health and sustainability, homelessness and housing, and social service contract. On Tuesday, july twenty eighth,
We will have another budget work session that will cover economic and workforce development, mobility and critical infrastructure, and and high performance in government one, section one of that. On Thursday, july thirtieth. We will have a city council budget work session covering public safety and some additional high performing government issues. We will also conduct a public hearing on that day at three o'clock. It is part of the same council meeting. So it's not a separate council meeting, it's just a time certain for a public hearing at three o'clock on that day. And we will also set the maximum tax rate and and uh once we've conducted the public hearing. On Tuesday, August fourth. Uh we have tentatively scheduled a city council budget work session for that day as well.
case we need it. That is also the day um that we are asking all Council members to have in their proposed amendments to the budget and their proposed IFCs. Thursday, August sixth, we will have a budget work session where we will take up those budget amendments and those IFCs and be able to talk about them. And then Wednesday, August twelfth, Thursday, August thirteenth, and Friday, August fourteenth, we will have we are scheduled
to
have council meetings.
Uh so if if if we need three days to pass the budget, we will have those three days.
I also want to point out that if you go to the City Clerk's website, the City Clerk has what I just laid out uh on the website. You can And it also gives you instructions on how people can sign up to be heard on any of those days. And it tells you when those uh sign up times open and when they close so that you'll be able to to sign up. Uh members, unless you have questions or comments uh or objections, I think we'll now go to the public comment. All right, with that I'll turn to the city clerk and ask you to help us.
Thanks, Mayor. Starting with item one and remote speakers, I have Lily Ann Ortiz.
Hello everyone. Thank you so much for your attention and your time. So being a public servant means that we answer to the public, right?
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Agenda
8 items
1
What does the council chair say at the beginning of the meeting?
0:08–13:51
2
How do community members begin speaking about the Community Investment Budget and social‑service funding?
13:51–51:26
3
What arguments are presented for expanding Community Violence Intervention and ATX Peace programs?
51:26–1:40:45
4
Why do several speakers urge the council to keep police funding flat and protect social‑service contracts?
1:40:45–2:20:01
5
What opening remarks and public testimonies are presented at the start of the session?
2:20:01–2:53:20
6
How does the council move from recess back into the formal budget briefing?
2:53:20–3:40:54
7
What department overviews are given during the community health, parks, public health, library and resource‑recovery briefings?
3:40:54–4:31:19
8
How do the discussions shift to detailed Q&A on homelessness, housing, social‑service contracts and budget adjustments?
4:31:19–4:45:11
Speakers
1 identifiedOfficials recognised by voice; public commenters shown as “Speaker N” unless they state their name.