Fuzzy Budget Math at AISD

The latest proposed Austin ISD budget has new millions in found money

"...16, Austin ISD Superintendent Pat Forgione announced his revised 2003-2004 budget proposal, which would increase teacher and staff pay,..."

June 27, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

Budget Battles, Round One:

Austin firefighters start a blaze of their own in response to the department's controversial budget-cutting proposal.

"...and deliberations on City Manager Toby Futrell's proposed fiscal 2004 budget. The first group of departments up to bat..."

Aug. 15, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Budget's Downhill Slide

"...Forecast All figures in Millions of $ FY 2003FY 2004FY 2005FY 2006 Expenditures$459.39$499.20$494.87$517.23 Minus budget reduction($38.20) Total expenditures$459.39$461.00$494.87$517.23 Revenues$445.96$461.00$465.75$482.98..."

Aug. 8, 2003 News Feature

Election 2004 Updates

The latest electoral happenings in Central Texas, updated daily

"...Digital Polemics Film Festival 2004 presents its Election Night Party at Antone's, Red, White..."

Oct. 29, 2004 News Feature

City Budget: Same Song, Second Verse

Just like last year, City Hall is grappling with a $70-million-plus projected budget gap.

"...the hot City Hall story would be Austin's continuing budget crisis -- a topic that's not exactly any happier..."

Jan. 31, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Council Whistles a Happy Budget Tune

Pain, pain, go away, come again some other day

"...Hall watchers in the Toby Futrell era know, every budget has its own theme song. Two years ago, it..."

Sept. 17, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Election 2004

A crowded field angles to succeed Margo Frasier as sheriff

"...in scrutinizing – and, perhaps, scrubbing – the office's budget. To make the choice just a little more difficult,..."

Feb. 27, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

On the Lege: Bombshells and Budget Officers

The Legislature begins to get down to business.

"...been ordered to immediately cut 7% of their 2003 budgets in hopes of saving $700 million, but it remains..."

Feb. 7, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

The Budget

"...Estimates of the state budget shortfall for the 2004-2005 biennium -- to fund existing..."

Dec. 13, 2002 News Feature

What About That 2004 Bond Election?

An update on bond proposals approved in 2004

"...In 2004, voters passed six bond propositions, worth $519.5 million. The..."

May 2, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Central Health Budget Suggests Waning Trust in Ascension

The budget adds money for direct services

"...Central Health’s fiscal year 2024 budget, greenlighted by the board Sept. 6, suggests eroding trust..."

Sept. 11, 2023 News Post by Lina Fisher

Barney Builds a Budget

Bush explaining his National Park Service budget using the magic of puppies.

"...so much that he's has requested a $2.363 billion budget for the National Park Service. But that mean old..."

Dec. 12, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker

The Stress-Free Thanksgiving 2004

Let the hotels, restaurants, and markets take care of it

"...Note: These listings are from 2004. For updated information, check out our Thanksgiving Dining page...."

Nov. 19, 2004 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Brits Relished SXSW 2004

"...work and the supermarket. And whilst in Texas another budget pushed the price of "gas" yet up a few..."

April 5, 2004 Postmarks

Austin @ Large: Austin at Large

The city may go where it feared to tread last year -- tax hikes, layoffs, and cutting public safety budgets.

"...Thursday, Toby Futrell delivered her latest dose of foul budget news -- appropriately, amidst a heavy and ominous downpour..."

Feb. 28, 2003 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Is the Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door?

AISD's budget cuts could be deep and painful.

"...as she considered the effects of just-announced Austin ISD budget proposals that would save $7.2 million by eliminating 71..."

Jan. 31, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

Naked City

"...meetings next Monday-Wednesday (Sept. 8-10) to approve the fiscal 2004 city budget. While most of the big issues were..."

Sept. 5, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

You Can't Touch This

The budget battles, Round 2: Citizens rally to save community services

"...when City Manager Toby Futrell debuted her proposed fiscal 2004 Austin city budget. By this standard, the Aug. 14..."

Aug. 22, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

City Hall Hustle: Discount Government, Part II

Historically low city tax rates bite back in the longer run

"...last year, as council thumbed through the proposed 2009 budget. Retiring Mayor Pro Tem Betty Dunkerley, revered as the..."

Sept. 11, 2009 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Point Austin: Wish Lists

AFSCME steps up to the council budget table, and the bonds begin to take shape

"...the staff's formal presentation of the fiscal year 2006 budget the central preoccupation of the next few weeks. I..."

July 29, 2005 News Column by Michael King

Don't Worry, Be Happy:

City Hall's left wing carries the day as the budget season draws to a close

"...the City Council's final wrestling match over the fiscal 2004 city budget, adopted for good and all Tuesday morning,..."

Sept. 12, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Down and Dirty

Pasty people vs. pretty people, low budget vs. big budget, Peter Biskind vs. Robert Redford: the 20th annual Sundance!

"...always played host to these various factions, but in 2004 the disconnect between the two groups seemed more obvious..."

Jan. 30, 2004 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Black Book

Although in many ways a characteristically perverse Paul Verhoeven spectacle, this Dutch World War II resistance story is more morally shaded as well as handsomely mounted and suspenseful.

"...the trend of films like Germany’s Before the Fall (2004) and the Czech Republic’s Dark Blue World (2001). Verhoeven..."

April 27, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Jailbait

The stage origins of this low-budget, indie prison movie are simply everywhere, but it is so fantastically acted that it inspires indulgence of its first-timers’ mistakes.

"...Zayas. There’s nothing else in town quite like this low-budget, indie prison movie, which played the Austin Film Festival..."

Aug. 18, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Mission, Not Accomplished

The city's draft budget is on the table, and the cuts just keep on coming

"...streets around City Hall is that Austin's fiscal 2005 budget cycle – the fourth year in a row of..."

June 18, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Robot Stories

A short film collection billed as "science fiction from the heart," with an emphasis on the heart part.

"...segments, respectively) and narrative finesse achieved on a small budget, then this multi-award-winning festival-circuit movie will not disappoint. It’s..."

May 7, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Endorsements

Our endorsements for the March 9 Republican and Democratic primaries

"...together to lobby for their needs. Hamilton's position on budget issues – from raising salaries for correctional officers to..."

Feb. 27, 2004 News Feature

Endorsements

Our endorsements for the March 9 Republican and Democratic primaries

"...together to lobby for their needs. Hamilton's position on budget issues – from raising salaries for correctional officers to..."

Feb. 20, 2004 News Feature

The Red Ink Hits the Fan

City Manager Toby Futrell says the budget won't balance without years of tax hikes and service cuts

"...Ever since Toby Futrell became city manager, budget briefings have been spiked with in-jokes between her and..."

May 30, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Where Has All The Money Gone?

Most of the city's General Fund is spent on things City Hall doesn't want to cut.

"...EMS (5.1%) make up two-thirds of the General Fund budget and consume more than 95% of the city's total..."

May 30, 2003 News Feature

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