Naked City

Beyond City Limits

"...apply for seats on the village's standing committees, including finance/budget, fundraising/donations, economic development, and natural resources. Application forms are..."

March 7, 2003 News Feature

Naked City

Beyond City Limits

"...a fiscal one -- to help balance the state budget by saving the $166,000 annual NGA membership fee. His..."

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

Naked City

Beyond City Limits

"...or bringing lunch to work." The governor insisted the budget can be balanced without raising taxes, although he did..."

Feb. 14, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

Beyond City Limits

"...and cities, most of which are struggling with massive budget deficits. -- M.C.M...."

Jan. 17, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

City Hall Gets Better at the Basic Business of Budgeting

Early indicators are good, but difficult fiscal conversations linger

"...In the 10 days or so since City Manager Spencer Cronk presented his proposed budget for fiscal..."

Aug. 16, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Interim City Manager Quietly Unveils Budget Proposal

In it: raises, more police funding, and restructuring

"...Interim City Manager Jesús Garza was officially unveiling his $5.5 billion..."

July 21, 2023 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Final Budget Talks Weigh Police, Rent Help, Guaranteed Income

Something’s gotta budge!

"...City Council holds its final budget work session Thursday, Aug...."

Aug. 11, 2023 News Feature by Austin Sanders

City Hammers Out Budget, Crosses Fingers for Katrina Evacuee Reimbursements

2005-06 money is ready to spend

"...With a minimum of fireworks, the City Council banged out the 2005-06 budget with yeoman efficiency..."

Sept. 16, 2005 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

City Begins Budget Cut-and-Paste

We're $68 million in the hole. What's council going to do about it?

"...It wasn't all a bad dream: The city of Austin really is facing a $68 million budget..."

May 17, 2002 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

Budget Battles, Round One:

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

"...The City Council got no free pass last week as it..."

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

Bottom of the Budget Barrel

City Hall scraped to the bone; now it cuts into it.

"...The third and final episode of "Budget: How Low Can You Go?" featured what City Manager..."

Sept. 6, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

Dereg Debacle

"...deregulation" for years, with the clear implication that Austin's city-owned utility better shape up quickly and be prepared, lest..."

Sept. 10, 1999 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett

Council Readies for New Budget Realities

Members might reconsider economic incentive packages

"...While City Council awaits a detailed budget presentation from City Manager..."

July 5, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Point Austin: Unbalancing the Budget

Council makes final spending decisions with one hand behind its back

"...I'd feel a lot more sympathy for City Council's predicament over the FY 2017 budget if they..."

Sept. 9, 2016 News Column by Michael King

The Budget Is Hell

Mitchell Loses Big While Griffith Saves the Day

"...as bad as war. He never covered a council budget session. Two days... 12 grueling hours... $1.3 billion spent......"

Sept. 20, 1996 News Column by Alex de Marban

Council Puts Finishing Touches on New Budget

Every last dollar

"...City Council is deep in the weeds of budget deliberations..."

Aug. 19, 2022 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Settling the FY 2019 Budget

Council sorts out tax rate, final spending

"...City Council arrived at annual "budget readings" Tuesday morning (with..."

Sept. 14, 2018 News Feature by Michael King

City Council: Here's Your Budget!

Council holds line on tax rate, juggles many line items

"...well as a good deal of hemming and hawing, City Council accomplished its most important annual task of adopting..."

Sept. 13, 2013 News Feature by Michael King

Budget Blitz

The City Council on Tuesday approved its $1.8 billion budget for fiscal 2003, but not before mollifying some angry citizens and mopping up some of the blood on the floor.

"...To the strains of "Stairway to Heaven" (it's an inside-City-Hall joke -- you had to be there), the City..."

Sept. 13, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

County's Parsimonious Budget Plans Ockham's Razor

The New County Order

"...Each of these clusters, along with planning and budget, has an "executive manager" - sort of like the..."

Sept. 8, 1995 News Feature

City Council: Zimmerman, Bond, and Budget

(And a few other things got done)

"...The dust hasn't settled yet from last Thursday's City Council meeting (Aug. 18), and most of the headlines..."

Aug. 26, 2016 News Feature by Michael King

Council Passes Budget – Minus Mayor's Vote

A $3.1 billion financial package took two days of wrangling

"...Nobody said it would be easy, but the City Council on Tuesday adopted a 2012-2013 budget after two..."

Sept. 14, 2012 News Feature by Amy Smith

The Budget's Downhill Slide

"...City of Austin General Fund Financial Forecast All figures in..."

Aug. 8, 2003 News Feature

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...folks talk about the (gulp) "millennium bug." Our fair city has been chosen as one of the handful of..."

July 9, 1999 News Feature

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...The search for the chiefs continues down at city hall. The police department was supposed to have a..."

July 11, 1997 News Feature

Budget Blackboard

Write 100 Times: AISD Needs More Money

"...by Alan Pogue When it came to making the budget for 1997-98, officials of the Austin Independent School District..."

June 20, 1997 News Feature by Roseana Auten

Council: Escape From City Hall!

Members navigate homestead exemption politics en route to vacation

"...items (with a few lagniappes) lasting until 3am – City Council didn't actually manage to begin their annual summer..."

July 1, 2016 News Feature by Michael King

Council: The Budget Warms Up ... and Ott's Under Fire

With substantive postponements, this week's Council meeting may bring fireworks

"...There's no regular City Council meeting this week (next one is May 1),..."

April 25, 2014 News Feature by Michael King

Budget Buzz

Unexpected good news on the budget front means better prospects for city employee incentive pay

"...The city's proposed 2010 budget continues to come into focus as..."

Aug. 21, 2009 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

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