Austin City Budget: FY 2017 Timeline

June 10, 2016 News Feature

City Council Clashes Over 2017 Budget

Competing ideas on how to spend $969 million

"...Council remains knee-deep in deliberations over the fiscal year 2017 city budget. In its largest incarnation, that's the $3.7..."

Aug. 19, 2016 News Feature by Michael King

Council: The FY 2018 City Budget

Maintain and sustain

"...FY 2018 Budget: Maintain and Sustain..."

Aug. 4, 2017 News Feature by Michael King

Council: Proposed Budget Takes the Stage

City manager and budget staff lay out FY 2017 budget

"...heard the formal presentation of City Manager Marc Ott's FY 2017 city budget. (Mayor Steve Adler and Council Members..."

July 29, 2016 News Feature by Michael King

If We Had Budget Enough, and Time ...

Council closes in on a final FY 2017 city budget

"...But the overall drift of the discussion was on identifying ways to fund the highest-priority items, and those adjustments..."

Sept. 9, 2016 News Feature by Michael King

Central Health Faces Questions Over Budget Transparency

Commissioners to vote on the health district's FY 2017 budget on Sept. 20

"...Ahead of adopting its 2017 fiscal year budget, Central Health is fielding questions related..."

Sept. 16, 2016 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Council: Don't Say I Told You So

FY 2017 budget passes after a three-day marathon

Sept. 16, 2016 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

Council: No Zombies Before Midnight

City Council hears budget pleas, aids workers, tenants … & zombies

"...after several hours of public testimony on the proposed FY 2017 budget, a resolution to require better working conditions..."

Sept. 5, 2016 News Post by Michael King

City Budget: Something's Gotta Give

Cooling economy, rising costs mean tough choices for City Council

"...the approved General Funds (operating) budget for Fiscal Year 2017 had topped out just about as anticipated, roughly $970..."

May 12, 2017 News Feature by Michael King

Strategizing a City Budget

Finance staff delivers tentative 2019 forecast

"...Deputy Chief Financial Officer Ed Van Eenoo presented his FY 2019 city budget forecast, by definition an early draft..."

April 13, 2018 News Feature by Michael King

Working the Budget

Council and staff review the preliminary numbers, with crossed fingers all around

"...in late April. In general, staff is warning that FY 2017 will be a "tight budget year" – that's..."

June 10, 2016 News Feature by Michael King

Point Austin: Partly Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

City Hall begins budget prep with a fair-to-middling forecast

"...kicked off with Wednesday's work session presentation of the FY 2019 budget forecast. That's about a month earlier than..."

April 6, 2018 News Column by Michael King

AISD Proposes a Budget

AISD sees its money go back to the state

"...billion in the current year to $1.15 billion in FY 2017. However, $133 million of that $145 million increase..."

April 29, 2016 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Public Notice: Waitin' for the Money

Budget, bond drama overshadows all else

"...the annual city budget (see "City Council Clashes Over 2017 Budget,"), after apparently having achieved surprising unanimity last week..."

Aug. 19, 2016 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Court Collision Coming

Council funds AFD overtime, tweaks meetings, orders Texas showdown

"...The SB 4 action was much anticipated – after..."

May 22, 2017 News Post by Michael King

Council: No Sanctuary for the Weary

Adler tries to wrap his head around Austin's sanctuary city status

"...There's no regular City Council meeting this week (the..."

April 28, 2017 News Feature by Michael King

Point Austin: Thinking About Budgets

We are short-term planners with long-term problems

"...I've been knee-deep in the FY 2017 city budget for some weeks now, including a..."

Aug. 19, 2016 News Column by Michael King

Mayor's Omnibus Resolution: The Arts Commission Hustle

City group gets moving on policy plan for Austin creatives

"...group's sense of the clock ticking. With the city's FY 2017 budget process moving into high gear, the commission..."

Aug. 8, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

City Council Preview: Juggling Act to Include Budget, Transportation Bond

Council agenda occupied by a handful of pressing subjects

"...(Item 2, right after Approval of Minutes) is Council's FY 2017 budget "concept menu." The "menu," initiated by Mayor..."

Aug. 12, 2016 News Feature by Michael King

The Devil in the Details

Council faces a daunting slate of work sessions

"...• The FY 2017 property tax rate, which looks likely to decline,..."

Aug. 5, 2016 News Feature by Michael King

Point Austin: The Budget Wrangle Resumes

City Council attempts to spend more, cost less, and ... sustain services

"...first of several similar weeks. While they wrangle the FY 2017 budget, with the other hand they're prepping the..."

Aug. 5, 2016 News Column by Michael King

Council: Burning Daylight

Passing the hot bond potato

"...So here we are, in the middle of FY 2017 budget preparation (see "Working the Budget"), a month..."

June 10, 2016 News Feature by Michael King

City Budget Squeezed Between Basic Costs and State Neglect

The city has $1.03 billion in taxpayer money. Here's where it's going.

"...between base expenses – keeping services roughly equivalent to FY 2017 – and any expanded or new initiatives council..."

Aug. 11, 2017 News Feature by Michael King

Point Austin: Unbalancing the Budget

Council makes final spending decisions with one hand behind its back

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

Sept. 9, 2016 News Column by Michael King

The Future of Austin’s Crime Lab

The backlog of DNA evidence is moving, but is it shrinking?

"...In September, during sessions to determine the city's 2017 fiscal budget, Council approved an additional $1.4 million in..."

Dec. 2, 2016 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Fear & Loathing

Travis County says goodbye to a coyote-killing machine

"...reports, followed by 339 calls and 20 incidents in 2017, numbers that could reflect calls made by the same..."

Dec. 22, 2017 News Feature by Lindsay Stafford Mader

Public Notice: Out of the Frying Pan ...

Council resumes regular schedule next week

"...Council is still fumbling their way toward adopting a 2017 city budget. It's been a more painful process than..."

Sept. 16, 2016 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Council Considering AE Settlement [UPDATE]

Agreement would cut overall utility rates by $42.5 million

"...Following a process that began in January, when AE..."

Aug. 29, 2016 News Post by Michael King

Council Reaches Consensus on Mobility Bond

Adler's "Go Big" Baby

"...public hearings (Items 87-93) on the proposed Fiscal Year 2017 budget, all set for a "time-certain" (no earlier than)..."

Aug. 19, 2016 News Feature by Michael King

Council: Downtown Puzzle or Rubik’s Cube?

Dais division brewing over hotel tax spending, tourism industry

"...With a divided Council and uncertain prospects, Mayor Steve..."

Aug. 28, 2017 News Post by Michael King

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