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What agenda items and procedures 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 Tim Cheetovela. Council members Natasha Harper Madison. Vanessa Fuentes Jose Velasquez Ryan Alter. Crystal name. Mike Siegel. Paige Ellis Zo code. Mark Duchen. 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 March twenty-sixth, twenty twenty six, and I will call to order the regular meeting of the Austin City Council for today. Uh we are meeting in the city council chambers located in City Hall at three oh one West Second Street, and we have a quorum of the Austin City Council present. Um What I'm going to do first is I'm going to kind of go through the order of the day and then we will b begin the actual meet uh aspects of the meeting. Uh in a few minutes I will read changes and corrections into the uh re uh record uh which changes the agenda. Um there are no action items that that have have been changed, but I'll I'll come back to that in a minute.
Then what we're gonna do is we're gonna go to our consent agenda. Uh there's only been one item pulled from the consent agenda and that is item number thirty one. Item number thirty one has been pulled from the consent agenda. After we hear from the public on with comments on the items on the consent agenda, we will then have uh council members Uh we'll have a discuss I'll get I'll take a motion and get a second and then we will have discussion among the council members with regard to uh the consent agenda and we will vote on the consent agenda. As close to ten thirty as we can get, but it will not be at ten thirty because of the number of people that have signed up to speak on the consent agenda.
We will uh recess the Austin City Council meeting and I'll call to order the Austin Housing Finance Corporation Board of Directors meeting. That has one agenda item. We will take that up and um then we will adjourn that meeting and go back to the Austin City Council meeting. My guess is that's when we will take up item number thirty one. Um we have a number of non consent items that aren't pulled from the consent agenda but they're non consent items because they come from the uh from council committees and under our rules those are non consent. Those are items forty eight, forty nine and seventy four. Those will be taken up after we take up Austin Housing Finance Corporation and probably after we take up item number thirty one.
We also have a number of public hearings, items fifty one through item sixty six are public hearing. I will probably well I I'll I'll wait till we get to those and we'll see what we're how we're managing time. But what I will say is at least right now those will probably be taken up in the order uh their numerical order. uh at at noon wherever we are uh on the agenda, at noon we will uh move to we'll we'll pause uh and we will go to our time certain public general public comment period. I anticipate that we will recess a at at the end of that public comment and that will be around twelve thirty to twelve thirty five, probably till about one ten. Uh at one ten we will reconvene and we will just we'll go with wherever we are on the agenda at that point in time and as close to two o'clock as possible we will take up zoning items.
So that's the unless there's questions, um I'll now go to changes and corrections in the record. As I indicated, there are no items that uh changes and corrections that I need to read specifically to an agenda item, but I do want to for the record again say that the item pulled off the consent agenda is item number thirty one. So with that, members, unless there's objection, we will go to the public comment on the consent items and I will ask the city clerk to navigate us through that process. Thank you, Mayor. Starting with item two, Nalia Akinemi Sankofa.
Yeah, this is little.
On item eight, William Bunch, item ten, William Bunch, item thirteen, William Bunch. Mr. Bunch.
Good morning, Mayor, Councilmembers, Bill Bunch, uh District Five, Save Our Springs Alliance, speaking on item eight, which is um two point two and a half million dollars to upgrade the parking garage at the convention center.
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Agenda
8 items
1
What agenda items and procedures are introduced at the start of the council meeting?
0:06–1:06:57
2
How do council members and public speakers discuss parking caps, missing‑middle housing, and front‑yard businesses?
1:06:57–1:51:40
3
What are accessory commercial units and how do they support local neighborhoods?
1:51:40–2:55:33
4
How does the discussion shift to parking reform and its impact on affordability?
2:55:33–3:39:45
5
What concerns are raised about housing affordability and missing‑middle housing in Austin?
3:39:45–3:42:45
6
How does the council conduct the consent‑agenda voting and adopt items?
3:42:45–5:15:43
7
What historic preservation issues are raised about the proposed twin towers in the Judges Hill District?
5:15:43–6:05:57
8
How does the council conduct the votes on postponement and approval for items 59‑66?
6:05:57–6:58:49
Speakers
2 identifiedOfficials recognised by voice; public commenters shown as “Speaker N” unless they state their name.