Marc Duchen
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514 appearances
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 10 Sep
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Yeah, I I think anything that would just give us some clues that we might need to do some additional research or investigation around some changes that you all are anticipating is what I'm looking for.
Thank you, Mayor.
That's th what I was getting at.
And and yeah, just to avoid a place where I'm having to investigate the morning of work session on what a potential project entails um and give us some more runway on some of these developments is what I'm looking for.
Good morning, everybody.
My name is Mark Dutron.
I'm the Austin City Council District 10 Councilmember.
And today, we are presenting a proclamation for chronic illnesses.
July is actually Chronic Illness Awareness Month, and this morning I'm grateful that so many people working in the chronic illness healthcare space and advocacy could join us, including representatives from the Arthritis Foundation, Power for Parkinson's, Neurology Austin, just a few of the organizations dedicated to improving the lives of people living with chronic illnesses in our community.
This is now the second year in a row in which I intend to be an ongoing tradition of raising awareness for different chronic illnesses that might otherwise remain unknown or misunderstood.
This is about our ability to recognize both suffering and resolve, to share information and resources, to ultimately support patients and advocates and healthcare providers.
One reason I ran for city council was to help destigmatize these chronic illnesses.
I looked both locally and around the country and found that outside of a handful of elected officials with diabetes, there were virtually no leaders that I could find that had chronic illnesses.
Which is statistically unlikely given that upwards of 60% of us have some kind of illness.
Far more likely is that our political class just fears speaking openly about these kind of illnesses.
My own experience with what's known as moderate to severe ankylosing spondylitis, a form of arthritis, has shaped my life and my career and my relationships and my perspective for the last 33 years more than anything else in my life.
And so I want to discuss how we change the perception that chronic illness is a barrier to public service and service in general.
And I'd like to believe it can be lived experience that brings empathy and resilience and perspective to serving our community.
Why is it that changing this perception is so hard?
I think part of the answer can be found in a passage from a book by a woman named Megan O'Rourke called Invisible Kingdom.
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