It's a wrap, at the final Austin City Council meeting of 2025, a slush fund of handouts approved by council - all on consent.
• $278,000,000 approved for spending
• 85 items on consent calendar
• All unanimously approved
• All without any audit
Austin, that's your council spending your money and working for you.
Sign the audit petition to be certified in 2026!
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If the same Austin voters that rejected Proposition Q knew the city council was approving $4,000,000 to give to Emancipet for animal sterilization, we are pretty sure the taxpayers would be furious.
Of course, Emancipet is more than an animal service organization, it's another mouthpiece for city council's tiresome and faltering social agenda.
@AustinJustice Correct. The @DowntownATXInfo ruined this park with drag propaganda as well. The DAA also funded and promoted homeless programs using property owner tax funds.
If Austin aligned with employee headcount to similar sized city as Ft. Worth, at an average salary of $55k, Austin's budget would save $450 million per year.
Vote no on Tax Rate Increase!
This is how local government grows and bloats into Austin's budget crisis.
Federal government is funding $2m grant to Austin Public Health for immigrant and refugee medical screening services. APH will fund SEVEN new positions in the department based on council direction today.
This is how local government grows and bloats into Austin's budget crisis.
Federal government is funding $2m grant to Austin Public Health for immigrant and refugee medical screening services. APH will fund SEVEN new positions in the department based on council direction today.
When funding disappears from federal government, the local government asks taxpayers to cover the deficit.
Local government continues to bloat both in dollars and staff. And the cycle never ends.
Today, Austin City Council votes to transfer another $1m to their pet project HOPE homeless fund to continue rejecting the voters referendum of rejecting wasteful homeless spending. This money will be for nothing but the homeless operating companies.
Under Texas House Bill 1136 in 2019, TPID funds from assessments (like Austin's 2% hotel room revenue levy) must be used exclusively for tourism-related purposes.
Direct transfers to general city funds or non-tourism uses (e.g., homelessness) are prohibited to prevent misuse of the special assessment.
Tourists visiting Austin often leave thinking the downtown district looks (and smells) terrible.
There's a reason why office vacancy is 30% and retail vacancy is 40%. Both historic highs.
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DA José Garza secretly dropped the murder charges, never notified our family, and hid behind a loophole that lets him disregard victims entirely. He did this after two courts rejected Causey’s claims, paving the way for
This @parksandrec parody is directed at Austin City Council and @KirkPWatson . City budget's are pretty simple.
"Let's spend money on things that matter: police, fire, parks and schools." - Leslie Knope
Embarrassing: Why @atp_org does it take 13 years to build a ten mile train in Austin?
That doesn’t even connect to the airport?
The Empire State Building construction began March 17, 1930, and was completed May 1, 1931. 410 days.
You guys are wasting our time and tax dollars.
Austin taxpayers voted for this by rejecting Prop Q:
• Restoring public safety, fire, EMS budgets
• Cutting bloated waste
This is a good start from @VanessaForATX. Get to work council, there's so much more to cut.
Like you @elonmusk we also advocate for a greater Austin! It’s the core mission of our work.
Living in a growing city is better than a dying city. Which way will Austin go: growth or die?
Local policy and leadership has much impact.
Move to Austin! It gets better very year.
So many cool, world-class people are moving to Austin from SF, LA, NY, London and many other parts of the world!
Austin++
Sad. Not surprising in this crime ridden area full of homeless shelters, drug dealing, assaults, vagrants wreaking havoc on local businesses and tourists.
But the city or APD won't admit Austin has a violent crime problem.
@KirkPWatson Sir, your most vulnerable residents are citizens of Austin who are working, raising families and operating businesses under extreme pressure from the litany of failed and invasive policies and can no longer afford to live in Austin under your politburo.
Yup. Just like we warned in the “nuclear option” warning from a council memo.
Thank you @AustinJustice for the work and terrific graph.
Don’t be misled by social contract cuts, council is siphoning $14 million (at least, more through upcoming budget amendments) from the Budget Stabilization Fund toward pet social service projects.
Austin is cutting millions from ambulance services, parks, and courts while allocating $20.5 million more to homelessness and social programs.
The paramedics union warns the cuts mean "fewer medics on the streets" and "slower ambulance response times."
Meanwhile, a single
🚩BREAKING: The amended budget is out and is not a reflection of the defeat of Prop Q last week.
City manager has proposed cuts to FIRE, EMS, PARKS while INCREASING funding to Homeless Service Office.
Other items to note:
1. No change to a bloated $25m animal services budget
2. There is another $30m in bloated social service contracts to eliminate
3. Increasing staff for Homeless service office
Here are the dates to be engaged:
• Friday, November 7th – City Manager releases an updated proposed budget.
• Thursday, November 13th – We will post for a budget work session.
• Tuesday, November 18th – We will have a budget briefing/work session as part of the already scheduled work session.
• Thursday, November 20th – We will post for potential adoption of the new budget.
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