City Council Budget Work Session
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What agenda and procedural items are introduced at the start of the council meeting?
You're watching a meeting of the Austin
City Council with Mayor Kirk Watson, Mayor Pro Tem Cheeto Vela, Council Members Natasha Harper-Madison, Vanessa Fuentes,
Jose Velasquez, Ryan Alter, Krista
Lane, Mike Siegel, Paige Ellis.
Zoe Khadri. Mark Duchin. City Attorney Deborah Thomas. City Clerk Erica
Brady. And City Manager T.C. Brodnax. Good morning, everybody. It's 10 o'clock in the morning on July 28th, 2026, and I will call to order the Austin City Council for this meeting. We have two items on the agenda, and I'll talk more about that in just a second. But what I want to start off the day is on a happy note by welcoming back our colleague and good friend, Councilmember Vanessa Fuentes. We are so glad that you're here. We welcome you back and are happy you're here. Let me quickly go through a couple of things. One is we have two items on the agenda today. One is a presentation discussion of the city manager's fiscal year 2026-2027 proposed budget. And the second will be a public hearing on proposed charter amendments.
The proposed charter amendments, you have a couple of things in there. One is you have those amendments, some of those amendments that were were recommended by the Charter Review Commission and staff and did not go on the ballot a couple of years ago. So what we have decided to do is bring back some of those to have public comment on it, allow the council to have discussions about whether or not we want to put those on the agenda. And then there is one petition-led proposed amendment that will also be discussed. We'll have a public hearing on that. And we will vote on that at a later date. I also want to point out the schedule that we're following with regard to the budget. Of course, what we've talked about is that today we will have a discussion related to economic development and workforce development, mobility and critical infrastructure, and some discussions about high-performing government.
As I indicated, we will then have a public hearing on the proposed charter amendments and have a discussion only. This Thursday at 10 o'clock, we will start the meeting. It is a Thursday we have a council meeting, and we will start the meeting at 10 o'clock, and we will have a discussion about that. We will also, at that meeting, vote with regard to the proposed charter amendments. uh... by the way the way we've also done this for folks uh... is we've broken out each one uh... so that people will be able to see each one of the proposals and be able to provide public input on each one as they want to do that on thursday we will also have at three o'clock p m a public a required public hearing uh... by state law a required public hearing on the budget that three o'clock is simply a time certain
for the meeting that is on Thursday, July 30. So you have to sign up for that public hearing the same way you would sign up for a regular meeting of the city council on July 30. And if you go to the clerk's website, they have it all set out about when the envelope is for beginning to sign up and when it ends. I want to point out that on July 30, it is posted The public hearing is posted as a public hearing and action. What we will do for the action is we will not vote on the budget on July 30th, but I don't want there to be any lack of clarity. What we will do is we will close the public hearing, and then we will vote on a motion to postpone the final vote until August 12th. I don't want there to be any confusion.
There's going to be an actual vote on the budget this coming Thursday. Then on Thursday, August 4th, we are likely to use that date, but it is tentatively scheduled for a work session. Thursday, in fact, August 4th, we will have, well, we'll worry about that at another point, but just everybody know we're probably going to have a meeting on that day. Thursday, August 6th, we will have a budget work session. Again, we'll talk about, on that date, we will talk about council proposed amendments and IFCs. We are asking for those proposed amendments and IFCs to be in by close of business on August 4th.
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Agenda
8 items
1
What agenda and procedural items are introduced at the start of the council meeting?
0:07–27:33
2
How is the public hearing on charter amendments initiated and structured?
27:33–57:48
3
What budget scenarios are presented and how do they affect expenditures?
57:48–1:17:28
4
How does the council discuss high‑performing government and departmental priorities?
1:17:28–2:16:32
5
Why is the city planning to relocate the police headquarters and renovate other facilities?
2:16:32–2:21:30
6
How are the ACME funding sources and sound‑permit fees being evaluated for possible reallocation?
2:21:30–2:50:37
7
What are the proposed changes to consultant contracts, Austin Energy rates, and the 311 call‑center budget?
2:50:37–3:55:38
8
How does the demolition fund expansion, graffiti‑abatement program, and upcoming budget adjustments impact public safety and city services?
3:55:38–4:23:10
Speakers
4 identifiedOfficials recognised by voice; public commenters shown as “Speaker N” unless they state their name.