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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I have a couple of questions.
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I've got a few for Austin Water and then a handful for TPW and then I think one for Watershed, just so folks know where I'm heading.
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My first question for Austin Water will be that there are 43 new full-time employees budgeted for this year and 36 more for next year.
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Can you give us a little more detail about that extra need for staffing and what roles and responsibilities we're looking to enhance?
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proposed, pardon me as I work through my binder to get to the pages that will be most responsive.
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represent adding staff in a number of areas across Austin Water.
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A large number of these positions are cost neutral because we are
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to reduce overtime in our operations areas, and we're also working to reduce temporary and contracted staff.
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And then we have other
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our environmental planning and development services area where we're working with new development and our environmental programs, wildfire mitigation specialist, and other key areas for advancing our go purple and reclaimed systems, as well as our aquifer storage and recovery program.
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Okay, so these sound like they're less adding technicians and more about expanding Austin Waters' space of environmental conservation and helping us work toward our climate goals.
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Is that accurate?
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It absolutely is supporting our work toward diversifying our water supply and meeting our environmental and climate goals, as well as supporting our ongoing operations in the field and activities
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Reducing the stress on our employees of excessive overtime and and Reliance on temporary and contract stuff.
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Okay.
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Well, that's really great to hear and then did you say it was cost neutral?
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So that is not triggering any fee increases.
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I know there are some proposed but it's not due to this additional staffing Not entirely a number of these positions are cost neutral the ones that are reducing overtime and and reducing
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temporary staff, but there are, I think we have an addition of about $5 million in our budget for this additional staffing.
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Okay.
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