Settling the FY 2019 Budget

Council sorts out tax rate, final spending

"...City Council arrived at annual "budget readings" Tuesday morning (with fallback meetings Wednesday and Thursday)..."

Sept. 14, 2018 News Feature by Michael King

Central Health Lays Out Its FY 2019 Budget

For your health

"...which generates more than 90% of Central Health's annual budget of around $200 million, pays for a lot of..."

Aug. 17, 2018 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Point Austin: Budget Finish Line

Council ponders final adjustments to General Fund

"...and he reiterated that perspective in Tuesday afternoon's Council budget work session. Leffingwell is taking the position that Council..."

Sept. 6, 2013 News Column by Michael King

City Budget: Open Season on 'Vacancies'

Council has little thirst for raising property taxes

"...The City Council is waist-deep in budget deliberations, marked today (Thursday, Aug. 22) by a public..."

Aug. 23, 2013 News Feature by Michael King

WilCo Budget War Goes to Appeals Court

Constable, county at odds over timing and legality of funding cuts

"...commissioners violated the Texas Constitution by gutting Griffin's 2005 budget two months after adoption because they didn't agree with..."

March 30, 2007 News Feature by Patricia J. Ruland

1995-96 City Budget: The Electric Utility Holding the Line

"...electric companies hungry for a deal, but by the budget officers of the Electric Utility Department (EUD), who are..."

Aug. 25, 1995 News Feature

Point Austin: Unbalancing the Budget

Council makes final spending decisions with one hand behind its back

"...sympathy for City Council's predicament over the FY 2017 budget if they hadn't been such collaborators in their own..."

Sept. 9, 2016 News Column by Michael King

City Council: Here's Your Budget!

Council holds line on tax rate, juggles many line items

"...its most important annual task of adopting the annual budget: FY 2013-14, which goes into effect Oct. 1. Although..."

Sept. 13, 2013 News Feature by Michael King

Drug Budget

What does Obama's new drug budget say about his administration's priorities?

"...announcing the release of the proposed federal drug control budget for 2011, Pres­id­ent Barack Obama's drug czar, former Seat­tle..."

March 5, 2010 News Column by Jordan Smith

City Hall Hustle: Budget Time

The annual budget melodrama rounds up the usual suspects

"...One week after the release of the proposed 2008 budget for the city of Austin, we know which cuts..."

Aug. 1, 2008 News Column by Wells Dunbar

On the Lege: Budget Rollout

The budget battle begins at the Capitol

"...veteran rep is serving his first term leading the budget charge, making the affable elfin Republican from the Panhandle..."

March 30, 2007 News Column by Amy Smith

Bush Federal Budget Cuts Bad for Texas

"...GWB in office are at all concerned about his budget proposals. I wonder if any actually care. Are they..."

March 4, 2005 Postmarks

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

Police Chief Fights Back as Council Cuts APD Budget

Chief Brian Manley remains defiant

"...As City Council prepares to adopt a budget on Aug. 12 that will, for the first time..."

Aug. 7, 2020 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Budget Cuts, Name Changes at AISD

Union urges wait-and-see stance on funding at board meeting

"...since a district document listing $55 million in potential budget cuts was leaked to the public and more than..."

Dec. 21, 2018 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Strategizing a City Budget

Finance staff delivers tentative 2019 forecast

"...– the fledgling president remarked of the latest federal budget proposal: "It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot..."

April 13, 2018 News Feature by Michael King

Point Austin: As the Budget Goes, So Goes Council

Turf battles over uncommitted funds may prefigure 2018

"...intermittently at work on the Fiscal Year 2018 city budget since April – turning up the heat in the..."

Sept. 22, 2017 News Column by Michael King

City Budget: More Cuts and Hikes on the Way

Austin Energy, Austin Water both proposing fee increases

"...County tax rolls have saved the city of Austin's budget, helping close a nearly $10 million gap between revenues..."

July 29, 2011 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Final Budget: Pork for Me, Not for Thee

"...came out on top in the new two-year state budget, thanks to lawmakers' eagerness to use the lion's share..."

June 1, 2007 News Column by Amy Smith

'Hold-the-Line' Budget Hits the City Streets

City manager's spending plan includes "anticlimactic" cuts

"...look at City Manager Toby Futrell's proposed fiscal 2005 budget – featuring spending cuts that in past years would..."

July 30, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Budget Battles, Round One:

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

"...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

Public Notice: City Budget Season Continues

A primer on the schedule and the tax rates

"..."All attention at City Hall is on the budget," I wrote last week. And then the city's most..."

July 29, 2022 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Council Readies for New Budget Realities

Members might reconsider economic incentive packages

"...While City Council awaits a detailed budget presentation from City Manager Spencer Cronk, due when it..."

July 5, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

AISD Braces for Budget Talks

AISD could be facing a $30 million shortfall in the next school year

"...Independent School District get their first glimpse of the budget process with two public meetings before the end of..."

Nov. 5, 2010 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

AISD: The First Carstarphen Budget

New AISD superintendent prepares her first whole budget

"...School District board of trustees passed the district's 2009 budget last August, it was hard to describe it as..."

July 23, 2010 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

What Will New AISD Budget Mean About Next Year's?

After struggles over staff pay, the budget is ready – and Carstarphen's ready to look to the future

"...The Austin Independent School District has a new budget and, if it keeps to current predictions, will still..."

Aug. 28, 2009 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

City Budget

Public safety spared; fee increases and other cuts likely

"...City Manager Marc Ott released his proposed city budget Wednesday with a surprising minimum of cuts. Among the..."

July 24, 2009 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Beside the Point: City Budget

Council goes for the rollback rate, gives early Christmas presents

"...Monday swoop, the City Council passed a $2.3 billion budget (all funds) for fiscal year 2007 in one brief..."

Sept. 15, 2006 News Column by Wells Dunbar

AISD: Low-Budget Wrassling Resumes

Budgeting for public education always involves struggles between competing needs, but these days the competition is particularly fierce

"...has barely begun debating the district's proposed $755 million budget, and already district officials and the teachers union are..."

July 15, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

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

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