Community Foundation unveils $15M fund for affordable, …
网页2024年4月29日 · Developers of affordable housing and permanent supportive housing units for unhoused people could soon receive financial assistance from a new Austin Community Foundation fund intended to fill gaps in the financing for those subsidized projects. Last week, the foundation announced…
Music Commission wants STR taxes to increase Live Music Fund …
网页2024年8月15日 · The Music Commission wants to increase funding for the Live Music Fund from its current $4.5 million total, and could push for hotel taxes from short-term rental sites as a funding source. At last week’s meeting, the commission received an update from the Music and Entertainment Division about the nearly 1,200 applicants for this year’s LMF ...
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网页Discover News by District. Download PDF Map. Find your council district by address via City of Austin tool (middle of the page) *. Emails I Want to Receive. Austin Monitor. The Austin Monitor is a 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt nonprofit and nonpartisan news organization. We are fully-local and cover the important issues and key decisions at the ...
Your ultimate guide to the I-35 expansion through Central Austin
网页2024年2月23日 · 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.
Class action lawsuit targets Austin taxes over Project Connect
网页2024年8月28日 · A new class-action lawsuit is seeking to block the city from collecting any property taxes, potentially starving Austin’s municipal government of almost all revenue, until it kills a tax approved by voters in 2020 to fund the largest public transit expansion in Central Texas history. The lawsuit is being brought by some of the same taxpayers who filed an earlier challenge to the transit plan ...
With an ambitious food plan ready for adoption, all that's missing …
网页2024年7月17日 · City Council members heard a briefing Tuesday on a far-reaching food plan designed to eliminate historical barriers to food access in Austin and Travis County. If all goes as planned, the draft proposal will return to City Council on Aug.…
Addressing affordability no easy task in Austin
网页2021年9月8日 · Austin’s affordability problem, he notes, is very much related to housing costs. According to data from RentCafe, the average monthly rent for an Austin apartment is $1,539 a month for an 865-square-foot home. That compares with $1,763 for an 832-square-foot apartment in Denver and $2,234 a month in Seattle for a space that is just 692 square ...
Austin Library director Roosevelt Weeks moves on
网页2024年9月27日 · Austin Library director Roosevelt Weeks moves on. Friday, September 27, 2024 by Jo Clifton. Mayor Kirk Watson and City Council said farewell Thursday to Roosevelt Weeks, who has served as the city’s director of libraries for the past seven years. He thanked Council for passing ordinances that cut down …
New PAC starts to fight strong-mayor plan - Austin Monitor
网页2021年3月10日 · New PAC starts to fight strong-mayor plan. It’s that time of year, Austin voters. The redbud trees have come out, signaling spring. Also coming out in time to remind us that we have choices to make in the May election are people paid to knock on our doors. So don’t be surprised when a block walker from Restore Leadership ATX knocks on your ...
Central Health audit raises more questions than answers
网页2024年9月12日 · Central Health audit raises more questions than answers. On Tuesday, Sept. 10, the Travis County Commissioners Court received a troubling and confusing report on an audit it authorized in 2022 of the county’s health care district, Central Health. Audit consultant Mazars found that Central Health has committed no legal wrongdoing and has ...