Paul Aviña - El Garrote Monika Hernandez - It's time for a change Mark Edgette - Fluoride is an industrial waste from aluminum, phosphate fertilizer, and nuclear waste. The people of America were not given the right to informed consent which is against article seven of the Geneva convention. Sodium fluoride is a component of satin nerve gas. Ending fluoridation of water will save money and help our failed medical system. Please use common sense and end fluoridation of drinking water. You are committing a criminal act. Edward Sledge - City Code Section 2 - 5 - 13 CAROLANNROSEKENNEDY - SALES TAX, PROPERTY TAX AND INCOME TAX MANIPULATION Lisa Whitted - Autism coverage for City of Austin employees Tina Wilburn - My Austin Energy residential service Susan Granata - Please ban the use of fluoride in the entire USA. Thanks. Jacqeline Perez - I would like to speak about the Onion Creek buy-outs 240 homes remaining. My background is in Psychology, Real Estate and Public Policy. I am also a flood survivor and resident of Onion Creek. Sarah Cook - Code Compliance
Authorize negotiation and execution of a 50-year license agreement with DECKER LAKE GOLF, LLC to provide funding, design, development, management, and maintenance services for a golf course at Walter E. Long Metropolitan Park. (THE PUBLIC COMMENT FOR THIS ITEM WAS HELD AND CLOSED ON NOVEMBER 20, 2014).
Authorize negotiation and execution of an interlocal agreement with the Austin Independent School District for administration of the proposed Austin Promise Zone, intended to revitalize high poverty communities in the Rundberg, St. John's, Colony Park, East Central, and Dove Springs areas, pending designation by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Approve a resolution directing the City Manager to implement an appropriate traffic control device to eliminate unauthorized cut-through automotive traffic in a new roadway extension of Aldwyche Drive. ( Notes: SPONSOR: Council Member Ann Kitchen CO 1: Council Member Ellen Troxclair CO 2: Mayor Pro Tem Kathie Tovo CO 3: Mayor Steve Adler )
30. C14-2014-0011A – Garza Ranch – (District 8) – Approve second and third readings of an ordinance amending City Code Chapter 25-2 by zoning property locally known as 3800 Ben Garza Lane (Williamson Creek Watershed-Barton Springs Zone) from community commercial-mixed use-conditional overlay-neighborhood plan (GR-MU-CO-NP) combining district zoning to community commercial-mixed use-conditional overlay-neighborhood plan (GR-MU-CO-NP) combining district zoning, to change a condition of zoning. First Reading approved on February 26, 2015. Vote: 9-2, Mayor Pro Tem Tovo and Council Member Casar voted nay. Owner/Applicant: Rancho Garza, Ltd. (Ron White). Agent: Cunningham-Allen, Inc. (Jana Rice). City Staff: Wendy Rhoades, 512-974-7719. 31. C14-2014-0011B – Garza Ranch – (District 8) – Approve second and third readings of an ordinance amending City Code Chapter 25-2 by zoning property locally known as 3510 and 4003 Ben Garza Lane (Williamson Creek Watershed-Barton Springs Zone) from community commercial-mixed use-conditional overlay-neighborhood plan (GR-MU-CO-NP) combining district zoning to community commercial-mixed use-conditional overlay-neighborhood plan (GR-MU-CO-NP) combining district zoning, to change a condition of zoning. First Reading approved on February 26, 2015. Vote: 9-2, Mayor Pro Tem Tovo and Council Member Casar voted nay. Owner/Applicant: Rancho Garza, Ltd. (Ron White). Owner/Applicant: Rancho Garza, Ltd. (Ron White). Agent: Cunningham-Allen, Inc. (Jana Rice). City Staff: Wendy Rhoades, 512-974-7719.
34. Conduct a public hearing and consider an ordinance amending City Code Title 25 to limit the redevelopment of existing small (substandard) lots that are developed as a single building site. 35. Conduct a public hearing and consider an ordinance amending City Code Title 25 changing regulations for secondary dwellings.
Proclamation -- Women in Construction Week -- to be presented by Mayor Steve Adler and to be accepted by Cindy Richter
Proclamation -- Supply Chain Month -- to be presented by Mayor Steve Adler and to be accepted by Jerry Binder
Proclamation -- Women Veterans Month -- to be presented by Mayor Steve Adler and to be accepted by Women Veterans
Proclamation -- ADA Legacy Bus Tour -- to be presented by Mayor Steve Adler and to be accepted by Bob Kafka, Tanya Winters and Dolores Gonzalez
Proclamation -- Rodeo Austin 2015 -- to be presented by Council Member Ora Houston and to be accepted by Hap Feuerbacher and Bucky Lamb
Proclamation -- Ramsey Park Day -- to be presented by Council Member Leslie Pool and to be accepted by Alison Alter and Rosedale Neighborhood representatives
Authorize negotiation and execution of all documents and instruments necessary or desirable to purchase in fee simple 240 properties at high risk of flooding in the 100-year floodplain of the lower Onion Creek area, in an amount not to exceed $60,000,000.
Authorize negotiation and execution of all documents and instruments necessary or desirable to purchase in fee simple 240 properties at high risk of flooding in the 100-year floodplain of the lower Onion Creek area, in an amount not to exceed $60,000,000.
Mar 05, 2015 City Council Meetings
Paul Aviña - El Garrote Monika Hernandez - It's time for a change Mark Edgette - Fluoride is an industrial waste from aluminum, phosphate fertilizer, and nuclear waste. The people of America were not given the right to informed consent which is against article seven of the Geneva convention. Sodium fluoride is a component of satin nerve gas. Ending fluoridation of water will save money and help our failed medical system. Please use common sense and end fluoridation of drinking water. You are committing a criminal act. Edward Sledge - City Code Section 2 - 5 - 13 CAROLANNROSEKENNEDY - SALES TAX, PROPERTY TAX AND INCOME TAX MANIPULATION Lisa Whitted - Autism coverage for City of Austin employees Tina Wilburn - My Austin Energy residential service Susan Granata - Please ban the use of fluoride in the entire USA. Thanks. Jacqeline Perez - I would like to speak about the Onion Creek buy-outs 240 homes remaining. My background is in Psychology, Real Estate and Public Policy. I am also a flood survivor and resident of Onion Creek. Sarah Cook - Code Compliance
Authorize negotiation and execution of a 50-year license agreement with DECKER LAKE GOLF, LLC to provide funding, design, development, management, and maintenance services for a golf course at Walter E. Long Metropolitan Park. (THE PUBLIC COMMENT FOR THIS ITEM WAS HELD AND CLOSED ON NOVEMBER 20, 2014).
Authorize negotiation and execution of an interlocal agreement with the Austin Independent School District for administration of the proposed Austin Promise Zone, intended to revitalize high poverty communities in the Rundberg, St. John's, Colony Park, East Central, and Dove Springs areas, pending designation by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Approve a resolution directing the City Manager to implement an appropriate traffic control device to eliminate unauthorized cut-through automotive traffic in a new roadway extension of Aldwyche Drive. ( Notes: SPONSOR: Council Member Ann Kitchen CO 1: Council Member Ellen Troxclair CO 2: Mayor Pro Tem Kathie Tovo CO 3: Mayor Steve Adler )
30. C14-2014-0011A – Garza Ranch – (District 8) – Approve second and third readings of an ordinance amending City Code Chapter 25-2 by zoning property locally known as 3800 Ben Garza Lane (Williamson Creek Watershed-Barton Springs Zone) from community commercial-mixed use-conditional overlay-neighborhood plan (GR-MU-CO-NP) combining district zoning to community commercial-mixed use-conditional overlay-neighborhood plan (GR-MU-CO-NP) combining district zoning, to change a condition of zoning. First Reading approved on February 26, 2015. Vote: 9-2, Mayor Pro Tem Tovo and Council Member Casar voted nay. Owner/Applicant: Rancho Garza, Ltd. (Ron White). Agent: Cunningham-Allen, Inc. (Jana Rice). City Staff: Wendy Rhoades, 512-974-7719. 31. C14-2014-0011B – Garza Ranch – (District 8) – Approve second and third readings of an ordinance amending City Code Chapter 25-2 by zoning property locally known as 3510 and 4003 Ben Garza Lane (Williamson Creek Watershed-Barton Springs Zone) from community commercial-mixed use-conditional overlay-neighborhood plan (GR-MU-CO-NP) combining district zoning to community commercial-mixed use-conditional overlay-neighborhood plan (GR-MU-CO-NP) combining district zoning, to change a condition of zoning. First Reading approved on February 26, 2015. Vote: 9-2, Mayor Pro Tem Tovo and Council Member Casar voted nay. Owner/Applicant: Rancho Garza, Ltd. (Ron White). Owner/Applicant: Rancho Garza, Ltd. (Ron White). Agent: Cunningham-Allen, Inc. (Jana Rice). City Staff: Wendy Rhoades, 512-974-7719.
34. Conduct a public hearing and consider an ordinance amending City Code Title 25 to limit the redevelopment of existing small (substandard) lots that are developed as a single building site. 35. Conduct a public hearing and consider an ordinance amending City Code Title 25 changing regulations for secondary dwellings.
Proclamation -- Women in Construction Week -- to be presented by Mayor Steve Adler and to be accepted by Cindy Richter
Proclamation -- Supply Chain Month -- to be presented by Mayor Steve Adler and to be accepted by Jerry Binder
Proclamation -- Women Veterans Month -- to be presented by Mayor Steve Adler and to be accepted by Women Veterans
Proclamation -- ADA Legacy Bus Tour -- to be presented by Mayor Steve Adler and to be accepted by Bob Kafka, Tanya Winters and Dolores Gonzalez
Proclamation -- Rodeo Austin 2015 -- to be presented by Council Member Ora Houston and to be accepted by Hap Feuerbacher and Bucky Lamb
Proclamation -- Ramsey Park Day -- to be presented by Council Member Leslie Pool and to be accepted by Alison Alter and Rosedale Neighborhood representatives
Authorize negotiation and execution of all documents and instruments necessary or desirable to purchase in fee simple 240 properties at high risk of flooding in the 100-year floodplain of the lower Onion Creek area, in an amount not to exceed $60,000,000.
Authorize negotiation and execution of all documents and instruments necessary or desirable to purchase in fee simple 240 properties at high risk of flooding in the 100-year floodplain of the lower Onion Creek area, in an amount not to exceed $60,000,000.