Green Fund: Aggies & Longhorns Unite

College Station students raise their fees to go green

"...to raise their fees, to create an "Aggie Green Fund." It will raise up to $300,000 per year for..."

March 5, 2010 News Post by Katherine Gregor

Chief Sustainability Officer Finalists Announced

Meet them June 3

"...for the new city of Austin position of chief sustainability officer. The candidates will have formal interviews next week;..."

May 28, 2010 News Post by Katherine Gregor

Sustainability Officer: Four Finalists

But only one can win!

"...By the time the public met the city's Chief Sustainability Officer candidates on Thursday, four finalists were left standing:..."

June 7, 2010 News Post by Katherine Gregor

Creating Sustainability

City plans Colony Park project as a long-term Eastside neighborhood

"...commercial boost the area needs. The buzz word is sustainability, but the challenge for the city is balancing and..."

Jan. 27, 2012 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Council Weighs Choices on Eastside Housing and SAVES Fund

Trying to find the best worst option

"...to approve program guidelines for the three buckets of funding (child care centers, live music venues, and legacy restaurants..."

Oct. 16, 2020 News Feature by Austin Sanders

That Figures

City Manager Jesus Garza introduces a budget that focuses on roads, utilities, and cops, and skates around a needed tax increase.

"...than it earns across every one of the many funds that make up the budget. Austin is in good..."

Aug. 18, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

This Is Your City Budget

More police, vanishing grants, rising costs, and ... Jazzercise?

"...most, it looks like council will find the extra funding to keep both centers open. Council Member Mike Martinez..."

Sept. 2, 2011 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Council: The Budget Sing-Along

City Council plans for the Sept. 12 budget adoption

"...she has particular questions about staff's proposals on the Sustainability Fund, created by Council in 2000 from enterprise funds..."

Aug. 31, 2012 News Feature by Michael King

Postmarks

The libraries hit the books, and environmentalists speak out.

"...CATF's Sustainability..."

Aug. 10, 2001 Column

Naked City

Lumberman's Investment Corporation has offered a compromise to the city on its plans for the Sand Beach Reserve, located just north of Town Lake; the CityCouncil approves a $1.8 billion budget.

"...voted down a proposal Tuesday which would have diverted funds now budgeted for roads to projects like park maintanence..."

Sept. 15, 2000 News Feature by Emily Pyle

Council Watch

Council approves spending $15 million on the Convention Center Hotel; City Manager Jesus Garza presents the Draft Policy Budget; and Roma Design Group announces its vision for the south shore of Town Lake.

"...soon the hotel could contribute to the city's general fund. But there was never any doubt that this deal..."

July 7, 2000 News Column by Kevin Fullerton

Walking Waller Creek Is a Tour Through Wildlife, Wild Flora, and Wild History

Take this self-guided tour from UT's Office of Sustainability, and learn how much wildness this waterway is home to

"...tour produced by the University of Texas Office of Sustainability (accessible with instructions and audio at www.sustainability.utexas.edu/walking-waller-creek), but the..."

July 31, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Five Food-Centric Panels Coming to SXSW

People are hungry for information about policy, sustainability, and curbing a global food catastrophe. And wine.

"...industry's biggest lobbying group, Grocery Manufacturers Association, and how sustainability commitments impact the environment as well as the food..."

March 8, 2019 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Health and Human Services: Making Do With Less

Health and Human Services takes another hit

"...centers), disease prevention and health promotion (various services, some grant-funded), environmental health (primarily food service inspections), and maternal/child/adolescent health,..."

Aug. 31, 2012 News Feature by Michael King

Faster Than Sound: $1.5 Million in HOT Funds Routed to Emergency Musician Relief

Austin Music Disaster Relief Fund created – contentiously.

"...a potential source of local relief. The Live Music Fund, a $1.5 million pool of HOT funds, is now..."

April 17, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Gone and Quartered

Stiffed on Capital Metro money, the city scrambles to fund another $51 million in transportation projects

"...construction. But both projects relied on "Quarter Cent Program" funding from Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority – money that Cap..."

April 16, 2010 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Sustaining What?

"...And what the hell is a Sustainability Fund, anyway? Despite Garza's proud rhetoric, this new fund..."

Aug. 18, 2000 News Feature

Naked City

Council comes back after a month's hiatus with a number of potentially divisive issues on its plate.

"...additional dollars for the city manager's proposed $15 million Sustainability Fund, currently focused primarily on road improvements and Economic..."

Aug. 4, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Developing Stories: Million-Dollar Vision

Will council fund a fresh comprehensive planning process?

"...during city budget conversations: Will council and staff prioritize funding for this project? Currently, it's not in the proposed..."

May 23, 2008 News Column by Katherine Gregor

Hear, Hear!

"...• Aug. 31: Sustainable Community Sustainability Fund; Housing; Public Works and Transportation; Watershed Protection...."

Aug. 18, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Not So Cool

Austin's 2009 Climate Protection Program update confirms progress on energy – but reflects a feeble citywide effort

"...data for the Zero Waste, single-stream recycling, and other sustainability initiatives (or lack thereof) at Solid Waste Services. City..."

June 19, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Council Does the Money Mambo

The bones of the city -- roads, sewers, power lines -- took center stage for last Thursday's installment at City Council of "Budget: How Low Can We Go?" Not as low as we might like.

"...expenses, even without transfers into the quasi-controversial Debt Management Fund. Blame God. "That's a function of the weather," AE..."

Aug. 30, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

City, County Budgets Hold the (Bottom) Line

At both City Hall and the courthouse, it's all quiet on the fiscal front

"...budgets are growing, after a fashion. The city's General Fund, fed by your sales and property taxes and revenue..."

Aug. 6, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Formula Farrera

Formula One cranks up sustainability engine

"...On Jan. 3 he was announced as the first sustainability director for Austin's Circuit of the Americas racetrack, and..."

Jan. 13, 2012 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Where Has All The Money Gone?

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

"...Police (40.4% of the total General Fund), fire (21.1%), and EMS (5.1%) make up two-thirds of..."

May 30, 2003 News Feature

Faster Than Sound: City of Austin Delays Venue Funding – Again

Live music venues have asked for dedicated COVID-19 relief since March, but the city says applications won't open until next year.

"...industry workers gathered to push for speedy distribution of funds under the SAVES Resolution. Passed Oct. 1, the effort..."

Nov. 27, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Council Recap: Not Many Tools in the Toolbox

City Hall tries to stretch its funds for music, housing

"...a new vision for the $15 million in relief funding they approved two weeks ago: leverage the money to..."

Oct. 16, 2020 News Post by Austin Sanders

Austin's Sustainable Secret

Student-founded Green Is the New Black makes renewable energy at Huston-Tillotson

"...in central East Austin, the group holds events, raises funds, and advocates for its cause: environmental awareness. However, GITNB..."

Oct. 24, 2014 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Unrealized Opportunities: Ester Matthews on the Austin Climate Protection Program

Ester Matthews reflects on the progress of the ACPP

"...Is your retirement and the hiring of this new sustainability officer [Lucia Athens] going to affect that administrative relationship?..."

Sept. 24, 2010 News Feature

First-Ever Comprehensive Plan Looks at Zilker's Future

The Zilker Park Vision Plan starts rolling

"...ecology, history and culture, diversity and inclusion, accessibility, and sustainability. The parks department says this is the first attempt..."

July 9, 2021 News Feature by Lina Fisher

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