Paige Ellis

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806 appearances 15 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 10 Sep

Paige Ellis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Austin City Council · City Council Budget Work Session · 28 Jul 2026 meeting

Certainly. podcast-host

Thank you, Councilmember Shea, Rolston, Austin Water. podcast-host

I'm going to talk about kind of three areas for water. podcast-host

One is a big portion of our operating costs for water treatment plants is our chemical costs. podcast-host

And those have gone up from $8 million a year in fiscal year 23 to $16.6 million in fiscal year 26. podcast-host

And that's just an indicator of the kinds of cost increases we're seeing on the water side. podcast-host

The second thing is we are making significant capital improvements in the water side. podcast-host

Not one big large project like Walnut Creek wastewater plant, but many projects around our system to improve our resiliency. podcast-host

So our CIP spend on the water side is up about 50%. podcast-host

in the last two years. podcast-host

And then third, this by incrementally increasing our water rates, we're able to get up to the level of rate support that we need to make the kinds of water supply resiliency improvements and diversification of our water supply in order to support ASR. podcast-host

brackish groundwater desalination, some of the other water supply investments that we'll be making will be ready for that without having to have the significant rate increases that we've had to have on the wastewater side. podcast-host

It'll be more incremental for our customers. podcast-host

Does Mr. Riley need to get back on the microphone? podcast-host

You seemed excited about something. podcast-host

Mayor, I need my time back. podcast-host

I'm just kidding. podcast-host

I'm going to have a couple more questions for Transportation Public Works, and then I've got one for Watershed at the very end. podcast-host

I wanted to ask firstly about the Vision Zero program. podcast-host

So it looks like in this year's amended budget for the budget that we're currently operating under right now, the number had gone up from what we had approved in the fall to our ending number, according to one of the documents that I looked at. podcast-host

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