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Austin and Central Texas, Monitored. Austin reopens applications for people who need help paying rent. Lee esta historia en español Low-income renters struggling to afford their monthly rent can now apply to get help from the city.
Report highlights need for future airport audits - Austin Monitor
Oct 10, 2024 — Report highlights need for future airport audits. Thursday, October 10, 2024 by Jo Clifton. The city’s Aviation Department faces a variety of risks, particularly related to insufficient staffing, according to a report from the Office of the City Auditor. Auditor-in-charge Kathie Harrison told the Council Audit & Finance Committee on Wednesday ...
Council budget requests include weatherization expansion, despite ...
Aug 13, 2024 — City Council has many possible budget amendments to consider this week. Although city staff has made clear that the city’s growth has not been sufficiently robust to support many expensive changes to the city’s budget, Council will still move forward with what they see as important additions when they meet on Wednesday.
Music insiders see opportunity as Austinite takes over at Texas …
Apr 30, 2024 — The news that the next director of the Texas Music Office will be a longtime Austinite with decades of music industry experience is seen as a positive for advocates of the local music economy. Over the weekend, news broke that…
Austin Police Department Training Academy attrition remains high …
Aug 9, 2023 — An Austin Police Department audit revealed high attrition rates among recent cadet classes amid ongoing reforms and persistent staffing shortages. Police leadership reported the inaugural audit’s findings – based on the 147th cadet class, which graduated in May – to…
Kirk Watson, who first led the city two decades ago, is elected …
Lee esta historia en español. By a razor-thin margin, Austin voters chose Kirk Watson as the city’s next mayor, electing him to navigate soaring housing costs and contentious fights playing out over how to build for the city’s growing population. Watson squeaked out a win with just 886 more votes than his opponent, state Rep. Celia Israel, in a runoff election Tuesday.
Austin Energy still pondering new generation plan
Sep 25, 2024 — The good news for customers is that Austin Energy is lowering the Power Supply Adjustment rate to customers by 5 percent beginning Oct. 1. That’s a typical saving of approximately $2 per month for the average residential customer. The utility is able to do that because of a fully recovered Power Supply Adjustment, she said.
Your ultimate guide to the I-35 expansion through Central Austin
Feb 23, 2024 — Install “caps” covering parts of the sunken highway – essentially creating an I-35 tunnel through downtown Austin – but only if Austin and the University of Texas foot the bill. The cost for the city alone could reach close to $900 million, not including tens of millions of dollars in annual maintenance expenses.
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Nov 27, 2023 — Notley/Monitor Poll: Austinites value local news but disagree on quality. Nearly seven in 10 Austinites believe that local news is important to them personally, but only 36 percent rate highly the quality of local news reporting, according to a June survey of 507 likely voters commissioned by Notley and conducted by Change….
As Council prepped public support, local Google workers learned …
Mar 1, 2024 — Some private-sector workplace drama took place in real time during Thursday’s City Council meeting, with a group of local Google workers learning they’d lost their jobs while commenting on a proposed city resolution intended to support their cause.. On the agenda Thursday was an item from Council Member Zo Qadri that called on Google LLC, parent company of YouTube Music, and the ...