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Item 6 Thursday, October 22, 2026 No vote recorded
Asks Council to approve an ordinance amending City Code Title 4 (Business Regulation and Permit Requirements) to require kennel operators to make their outdoor spaces escape-proof, and to create an offense and penalty. The item is listed as having no fiscal impact, and the proposed amendment is intended for private boarding facilities rather than City facilities.
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Item 11 Thursday, October 22, 2026 No vote recorded
Asks Council to approve a resolution adopting the Community Wildfire Protection Plan Update. The item is stated to have no fiscal impact.
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Item 21 Thursday, October 22, 2026 No vote recorded
Asks Council to authorize a construction contract with MGC Contractors for the Ullrich Water Treatment Plant Inherently Safer Disinfection Conversion for Austin Water, for $81,555,085 plus an $8,155,509 contingency, totaling no more than $89,710,594. The item states the full $89,710,594 is available in Austin Water's Capital Budget.
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Item 28 Thursday, October 22, 2026 No vote recorded
Asks Council to authorize a contract with Thomas Scientific LLC d/b/a Thomas Scientific for a comparison microscope for Austin Forensic Science, used to compare markings on bullets, cartridge cases, and toolmarks, in an amount not to exceed $109,733. Funding would come from $101,202 through the State of Texas Office of the Governor's Criminal Justice Division Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant, Crime Lab Enhancement Project, and $8,531 from the Austin Forensic Science operating budget.
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Item 29 Thursday, October 22, 2026 No vote recorded
Asks Council to authorize a contract with Fire Catt LLC for fire hose inspection and testing for Austin Fire, with a one-year initial term estimated at $76,500 and up to four one-year extension options in variable amounts, for a total not to exceed $427,500. The $76,500 is available in Austin Fire's Operating Budget; funding for the remaining term depends on future budgets.
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Item 44 Thursday, October 22, 2026 No vote recorded
This resolution asks Council to direct the City Manager to work with CAMPO, TxDOT, and other partners so that proposed improvements to Parmer Lane (FM 734) prioritize safety, walking, biking, and transit. It also directs advocacy for a full environmental review of any proposal for the corridor.
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This item authorizes a contract with Hanna Senko LLC to provide project management and facilitation services for the Collective Sex Crimes Response Model at the Austin Police Department. The model is the city's coordinated approach to how sex crimes cases are handled, and this contract pays for the person keeping that multi-agency work organized and moving. The initial one-year term runs an estimated $144,000, with up to three one-year extensions at the same estimated amount each, for a total not to exceed $576,000. The first year's funding comes from APD's Fiscal Year 2026-2027 operating budget, with later years contingent on future budgets.
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This is a contract with Envisage Technologies for Acadis, the software the Austin Police Department uses to track officer training records and manage its learning programs. Training documentation is how APD shows which officers have completed required certifications and coursework, so the system underpins the department's recordkeeping. The initial one-year term runs an estimated $200,000, already budgeted in APD's FY 2026-2027 operating budget, with up to four one-year extensions bringing the total to no more than $1,280,000 — the later years depend on future budgets.
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Authorize a contract for the ATX Floods application, the City’s public flood monitoring and low water crossing alert platform, for Austin Watershed Protection with The Sanborn Map Company, Inc., for an initial term of two years in an estimated amount of $685,647 with up to three one-year extension options each in variable amounts for a total contract amount not to exceed $1,212,200. Funding: $1,212,200 is available in the Capital Budget of Austin Watershed Protection.
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Item 10 Thursday, October 8, 2026 Passedunofficial This item authorizes a contract with Morris & McDaniel, Inc. to handle the hiring and testing process for Austin Fire Department cadets. AFD relies on outside firms to run the entrance exams and screening that fill each academy class, so this is the machinery behind how Austin gets its next generation of firefighters. The initial term runs two years at an estimated $400,000, with up to two two-year extensions at $400,000 each for a total not to exceed $1,200,000 \u2014 $200,000 of that is available in AFD's Fiscal Year 2026-2027 operating budget, with the rest depending on future budgets.
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Item 14 Thursday, October 8, 2026 Passedunofficial This item authorizes a contract with GTS Technology Solutions for support of Imperva cybersecurity and data protection software used by Austin Technology Services \u2014 the tools that help guard the city's networks and databases. Keeping that support current matters because city systems hold everything from utility billing records to internal employee data. The initial one-year term runs an estimated $450,000, with up to four additional one-year options at the same estimated amount, for a total not to exceed $2,250,000. The first $450,000 comes from the Fiscal Year 2026-2027 Austin Technology Services operating budget; later years depend on future budgets.
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Item 16 Thursday, October 8, 2026 Passedunofficial This resolution confirms Jolsna Thomas's reappointment to the Civil Service Commission that oversees firefighters, police officers and EMS personnel. That three-member panel handles the nuts and bolts of public safety employment in Austin \u2014 hiring, promotion and disciplinary appeals for sworn staff \u2014 so who sits on it shapes how those cases get decided. The item carries no fiscal impact.
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Item 6 Thursday, September 24, 2026 Passedunofficial This is a bookkeeping move to fold federal disaster dollars into the city's current budget. The item accepts and appropriates $3,862,221 in FEMA Public Assistance grant funds, passed through the Texas Division of Emergency Management, as reimbursement for COVID-19 expenses the city already carried. No local match is required, so the money lands in the Special Revenue Fund without pulling from other Austin priorities.
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Item 20 Thursday, September 24, 2026 Passedunofficial This is a citywide contract with Nippon Sanso Matheson Inc. to supply compressed medical-grade oxygen to every City department that needs it \u2014 think Austin-Travis County EMS ambulances and Fire Department rigs where oxygen is standard equipment on a call. The deal runs an initial two years with up to three one-year extensions, for a total not to exceed $544,275. Of that, $9,071 comes from the current FY 2025-2026 operating budgets and $99,784 from FY 2026-2027, with the rest depending on what future budgets allow.
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Item 22 Thursday, September 24, 2026 Passedunofficial This item extends the Austin Police Department's subscription contract with Tyler Technologies for the software officers use to write electronic citations and file crash reports. Keeping the subscription active means the department's ticketing and collision-reporting systems stay online rather than lapsing mid-year. The amendment adds one year and $276,320, bringing the contract's ceiling to $1,228,320, with the new money coming from APD's existing operating budget.
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Item 23 Thursday, September 24, 2026 Passedunofficial This item authorizes a contract with Tyler Technologies Inc. for cloud-based electronic warrant software to streamline how Austin Police coordinate and process warrants. It runs an initial year with up to four one-year extensions, capped at $575,000 total. Austin Police has $90,000 set aside in the current Fiscal Year 2025-2026 operating budget and $94,500 in Fiscal Year 2026-2027, with the rest depending on money being available in future budgets. Warrant paperwork is the kind of behind-the-scenes plumbing that shapes how quickly officers and courts can move.
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Item 26 Thursday, September 24, 2026 Passedunofficial This item authorizes a contract with CDW for Proofpoint software and support, the email security tool Austin Technology Services uses to cut down on phishing attempts aimed at city systems. Phishing is a common way attackers get into government networks, so this is part of the city's day-to-day cyber defense. The contract runs one year with up to four one-year extensions, for a total not to exceed $1,290,000; $205,000 is available now in the Austin Technology Services operating budget, with the rest depending on future budgets.
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Item 27 Thursday, September 24, 2026 Passedunofficial This item authorizes a contract with the Williamson County Child Advocacy Center to reimburse program expenses tied to protecting survivors of violence, abuse, or neglect in cases worked by the Austin Police Department. Child advocacy centers are where forensic interviews and coordinated support happen for kids and other survivors, so the arrangement covers the Austin cases that land in Williamson County \u2014 a reminder that Austin's city limits stretch past Travis County. The contract runs one year with up to four one-year extensions, for a total not to exceed $600,000, with $120,000 budgeted in Austin Public Health's Fiscal Year 2025-2026 budget and another $120,000 in FY 2026-2027. Money for the later years depends on future budgets.
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Item 30 Thursday, September 24, 2026 Passedunofficial This is a contract with GT Distributors of Austin to supply tactical uniforms, ballistic vests and related gear to code compliance officers in Austin Development Services \u2014 the staff who inspect properties and follow up on code violations across town. The agreement runs one year with up to four one-year extensions, capped at $500,000 total, with $8,333 available in the current 2025-2026 Development Services operating budget and $100,000 in 2026-2027. Funding for the later years depends on what future budgets allow.
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Item 31 Thursday, September 24, 2026 Passedunofficial This authorizes seven citywide contracts with AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Charter/Spectrum for the telecom, broadband, and cellular service that keeps City operations connected \u2014 including computer-aided dispatch for emergency responders, wireless utility metering, and remote access to City systems. It's the plumbing behind a lot of things Austinites rarely think about until they stop working, from a 911 call getting routed to a crew reading a meter. The contracts run an initial one-year term with up to four one-year extensions, for a total not to exceed $62,050,000 split among them; $12,410,000 is available now in various departments' operating budgets, with the rest contingent on future budgets.
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Item 42 Thursday, September 24, 2026 Passedunofficial This keeps the Austin Police Lake Patrol Unit docked where it already works — about 964 square feet of office space and three boat slips at 2215 Westlake Dr., under a sixth amendment to the lease with Lake Austin Marina 1, L.P. The five-year term runs from October 1, 2026 through September 30, 2031, with one option to extend another 60 months, and it's the home base for officers who patrol Lake Austin. The total is not to exceed $433,896, with $80,064 available in the Austin Police operating budget for FY 2026-2027 and the rest contingent on future budgets.
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Item 43 Thursday, September 24, 2026 Passedunofficial This authorizes an interlocal agreement with Travis County Emergency Service District 4 so Austin Fire gets paid for the fire protection it already provides inside ESD 4's boundaries. It's the kind of behind-the-scenes deal that keeps engines rolling across jurisdictional lines without either side eating the cost. An estimated $5,400,000 is reimbursed to Austin Fire's Fiscal Year 2027-2028 Operating Budget.
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Item 44 Thursday, September 24, 2026 Passedunofficial This item authorizes an agreement with Family Endeavors, Inc. (doing business as Endeavors) to keep three City-owned buildings ready to open as emergency shelters when Austin calls a cold weather activation. Staying on standby year-round is the point — when a hard freeze or ice storm hits, the sites can take in unsheltered Austinites without a scramble. The initial 12-month term starts October 1, 2026, at up to $900,000, with two optional 12-month extensions at up to $900,000 each, for a total not to exceed $2,700,000. The first year's funding comes from the Fiscal Year 2026-2027 Social Services Budget of Austin Homeless Strategies and Operations; later years depend on future budgets.
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Item 45 Thursday, September 24, 2026 Passedunofficial This adds the Blanco County Sheriff's Office as an associate partner agency in the Austin Regional Intelligence Center, the multi-agency hub where Central Texas law enforcement shares information and analysis. ARIC's funding mechanism runs on contributions from its partner agencies, and this interlocal agreement folds Blanco County into that arrangement. The item carries no fiscal impact \u2014 the City notes that adding partner agencies doesn't increase the budget or expenditures for ARIC's special revenue fund.
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Item 46 Thursday, September 24, 2026 Passedunofficial This adds the Williamson County Fire Marshal's Office as an associate partner agency in the Austin Regional Intelligence Center, the multi-agency fusion center where Central Texas law enforcement and public safety agencies share information. ARIC is sustained through a shared funding mechanism spelled out in interlocal agreements, and this item brings Williamson County into that arrangement. The item carries no fiscal impact — adding partner agencies doesn't change the budget or expenditures for ARIC's special revenue fund.
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Item 47 Thursday, September 24, 2026 Passedunofficial This item brings the Travis County Fire Marshal's Office aboard as an associate partner agency in the interlocal funding arrangement that keeps the Austin Regional Intelligence Center running. ARIC is the regional fusion center where local agencies share information and analysis, so adding a partner expands who sits at that table. Per the item, there's no fiscal impact "\u2014 adding partner agencies doesn't increase the budget or expenditures for the ARIC Special Revenue Fund.
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Item 53 Thursday, September 24, 2026 Passedunofficial This amendment keeps Austin Public Health's contract with the Texas Harm Reduction Alliance running another year, through September 30, 2027, for street outreach, harm reduction education, and peer recovery support \u2014 the kind of person-to-person work aimed at people using drugs who may not walk into a clinic on their own. It adds one more 12-month extension option, bringing the agreement's ceiling to no more than $3,000,000. The next year costs up to $600,000, drawn from the city's share of opioid settlement money, with any later years depending on future budgets.
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Item 61 Thursday, September 24, 2026 Passedunofficial This authorizes an interlocal agreement with CAMPO, the region's transportation planning organization, to develop four transportation planning studies plus a refresh of the city's Safe Routes to School Infrastructure Plan. That Safe Routes plan guides where Austin builds the sidewalks, crossings, and bike connections kids use to get to school, and the studies shape how future transportation projects get prioritized. Austin's share is the local match, not to exceed $671,743, which is available in the Capital Budget of Austin Transportation and Public Works.
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Item 62 Thursday, September 24, 2026 Passedunofficial This amends Austin's existing interlocal agreement with the Lower Colorado River Authority, which supplies and runs the data radio network behind the city's Flood Early Warning System. That network is how Watershed Protection gets real-time readings from creek gauges and rain sensors across a city where low-water crossings can turn deadly fast. The amendment adds $36,000 for Fiscal Year 2026-2027, available in the Watershed Protection operating budget, with future 12-month renewals depending on funding in later budgets.
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Item 69 Thursday, September 24, 2026 Passedunofficial This resolution asks the City Manager to draft an ordinance broadening which public spaces and businesses must keep an automated external defibrillator on site, including any Title 25 land development code changes needed to make it work. It also directs staff to look at ways to better coordinate and open up access to lifesaving equipment when someone goes into cardiac arrest. As a resolution, it sets the assignment and timeline rather than changing the rules today
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Item 98 Thursday, September 24, 2026 Passedunofficial This item amends the City's agreement with The SAFE Alliance, the Austin nonprofit that supports survivors of sexual and domestic abuse and violence in Austin and Travis County, adding one 12-month extension option running through September 30, 2027. It keeps the city's front-line victim services contract in place without a gap while crisis response, shelter, and advocacy work continues. The amendment adds $1,084,975, bringing the total agreement to no more than $11,838,517, with that funding available in Austin Public Health's Fiscal Year 2026-2027 operating budget.
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Item 4 Thursday, September 10, 2026 Passedunofficial This resolution adopts an update to the City of Austin's Hazard Mitigation Action Plan, adding new and revised mitigation actions for hazards including cybersecurity threats, severe weather, and flooding. Keeping the plan current is how Austin stays eligible for certain federal disaster-related funding \u2014 no small thing in a city that knows its way around ice storms and flash floods. The item has no fiscal impact.
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Item 5 Thursday, September 10, 2026 Passedunofficial This is the annual handshake that keeps Austin-Travis County EMS working as one system: an interlocal agreement for the City to run emergency medical services in the parts of Travis County outside city limits and to provide dispatch support for the County's STAR Flight helicopter program. It matters because ambulance coverage for unincorporated Travis County — the ranchettes, subdivisions, and rural roads past the city line — rides on this arrangement. Travis County pays the City up to $19,546,639 in Fiscal Year 2026-2027, a 3.5 percent bump from what it paid the year before.
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Item 9 Thursday, September 10, 2026 Passedunofficial This adds $220,000 to the City's existing contract with Hill Country Outdoor Power (also doing business as PartsTree.com) for lawn and fuels mitigation equipment, accessories, and maintenance, bringing the total to no more than $578,000. The gear goes to city arborists, firefighters, and fuels mitigation crews \u2014 the folks who cut back the brush and grass that can turn a spark into a wildfire in Austin's greenbelts and along the wildland-urban edge. Of the funding, $9,166 comes from various departments' FY 2025-2026 operating budgets and $110,000 from FY 2026-2027, with the rest of the contract term depending on future budgets.
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Item 15 Thursday, September 10, 2026 Passedunofficial Austin's police motorcycles are BMWs, and this item extends the city's contract with BMW Motorcycles of San Antonio for the factory parts and repair work that keeps them on the road. The amendment adds $220,000, bringing the contract's ceiling to no more than $600,000. Fleet Mobility Services has $10,000 budgeted this fiscal year and $100,000 in FY 2026-2027, with the rest of the contract term depending on future budgets.
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Item 17 Thursday, September 10, 2026 Passedunofficial This extends Austin's interlocal agreement with Travis County for DNA evidence processing services that came about after the Austin Police Department's DNA lab closed, adding four 12-month renewal options starting October 1, 2026. Keeping the arrangement in place matters for the criminal cases that depend on outside labs to turn around DNA testing. The total contract amount is capped at $3.2 million, with $254,675 available in the Fiscal Year 2025-2026 Austin Forensic Science operating budget and the rest contingent on future budgets.
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Item 21 Thursday, September 10, 2026 Passedunofficial This item authorizes an agreement with the African American Youth Harvest Foundation to provide juvenile delinquency prevention services, starting with a 12-month term beginning September 1, 2026, plus up to four one-year renewals. The Foundation is a longtime East Austin fixture working with young people and their families, and this kind of contract is how the city funds that hands-on, keep-kids-out-of-the-system work. Each term is capped at $100,000 for a total not to exceed $500,000, with the first $100,000 coming from Austin Public Health's FY 2026-2027 budget and later years depending on future budgets.
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Item 22 Thursday, September 10, 2026 Passedunofficial This amends the City's agreement with The SAFE Alliance, which runs the City-owned domestic violence shelter, to add one-time funding through the term ending September 30, 2026. The shelter is a key piece of Austin's safety net for people fleeing abusive situations, and the added dollars go toward keeping its doors open and operating. The amendment adds up to $200,000, bringing the total agreement to no more than $12,425,000, with the money coming from Austin Public Health's Fiscal Year 2025-2026 operating budget.
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Item 27 Thursday, September 10, 2026 Passedunofficial This ordinance sets up the special rules that let SXSW take over downtown streets, waiving parts of the city's temporary street closure code and adjusting requirements in the special events, closure, and sign chapters — including notice deadlines and rules for sound equipment and signage — for the 2027 conferences and festivals running March 13-21. The city co-sponsors SXSW, and this kind of ordinance is the paperwork that makes stages, amplified sound, and blocked-off streets legally possible. For neighbors and businesses near event zones, the notice provisions are the part that determines how much warning they get.
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Item 8 Monday, August 17, 2026 No vote recorded
This ordinance sets up the official job classifications and positions in Austin Fire's classified service, creates certain new positions, and repeals an earlier ordinance covering the same ground. It's the kind of behind-the-scenes staffing framework that determines how the fire department is organized and who fills which roles. Funding is available in the Fiscal Year 2025-2026 and Fiscal Year 2026-2027 Operating Budgets of Austin Fire.
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Item 9 Monday, August 17, 2026 No vote recorded
This ordinance sets up the official job classifications and positions for the folks working at Austin-Travis County EMS, and repeals the previous ordinance covering the same thing. It's the kind of behind-the-scenes staffing framework that shapes how our EMS crews are organized. Funding comes from ATCEMS's Fiscal Year 2026-2027 Operating Budget.
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Item 10 Monday, August 17, 2026 No vote recorded
This ordinance sets the official classifications and positions in the Austin Police Department's classified service, replacing an earlier ordinance from August 2025. It's the kind of administrative housekeeping that defines the ranks and staffing structure the department operates under. Funding comes from the Fiscal Year 2026-2027 Operating Budget of Austin Police.
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Item 15 Monday, August 17, 2026 No vote recorded
This resolution directs the City Manager to take a hard look at how the city measures Austin Police performance, calling for a comprehensive review of existing data, audits, and models used for performance management. The idea is to figure out whether current metrics actually capture how the department is doing before recommending any changes. For anyone tracking police accountability in Austin, it sets the groundwork for how success gets defined going forward.
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Item 17 Monday, August 17, 2026 No vote recorded
This resolution directs the City Manager to build a security plan for Austin's parks and recreation lands, including acquiring and activating equipment to improve safety. It also requires that any surveillance technology in parks fully comply with the city's TRUST Act (Ordinance No. 20260423-029) and prioritize parks with a history of violent crimes. For folks who spend time in Austin's greenspaces, it sets the ground rules for how security tech shows up where you play.
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Item 19 Monday, August 17, 2026 No vote recorded
This resolution directs the City Manager to set up an Office of Joint Emergency Communications within the Management Services Department and to take the steps needed to eventually spin off an independent Joint Emergency Communications Department separate from the Austin Police Department. It also asks the City Manager to bring back recommendations on standing up that independent department. The move reshapes where Austin's 911 and emergency dispatch functions live, shifting them out from under APD.
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Item 21 Monday, August 17, 2026 No vote recorded
This resolution directs the City Manager to hand Council a summary list of police misconduct complaints — the records commonly known as the "G-file" — plus an assessment of what it would take to build a publicly searchable online database of misconduct allegations, including costs and any legal, technological, or operational hurdles. It's a step toward more transparency around how complaints against Austin police are tracked and shared with the public.
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Item 8 Friday, August 14, 2026 No vote recorded
This ordinance sets up the official job classifications and positions in Austin Fire's classified service, creates certain new positions, and repeals the earlier ordinance that governed these classifications. It's the kind of housekeeping that determines the department's staffing structure. Funding is available in Austin Fire's Fiscal Year 2025-2026 and Fiscal Year 2026-2027 operating budgets.
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Item 9 Friday, August 14, 2026 No vote recorded
This ordinance sets the official job classifications and positions for Austin-Travis County EMS, the folks who staff our ambulances and answer medical calls across the region. It replaces last year's version (Ordinance No. 20250813-007) and keeps the department's staffing structure current. Funding comes from ATCEMS's Fiscal Year 2026-2027 operating budget.
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Item 10 Friday, August 14, 2026 No vote recorded
This item sets the official classifications and positions in Austin Police's classified service, replacing an earlier ordinance from 2025. It's the kind of staffing framework that spells out the ranks and job categories that make up the department. Funding comes from the Fiscal Year 2026-2027 Operating Budget of Austin Police.
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Item 15 Friday, August 14, 2026 No vote recorded
This resolution directs the City Manager to dig into how the Austin Police Department measures its own performance — reviewing existing data, audits, and models to recommend key performance measures. It's a behind-the-scenes accountability move that sets the yardsticks for judging how APD is doing. No cost is listed in the source text.
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Item 17 Friday, August 14, 2026 No vote recorded
This resolution directs the City Manager to build a security plan for Austin's parks and rec facilities, and to buy, install, and turn on equipment aimed at making those spaces safer. Any surveillance tech has to comply with the city's TRUST Act (Ordinance No. 20260423-029), with deployment prioritized for parks that have seen violent crime. The stakes here are how the city balances safety in public green spaces against the privacy rules laid out in that ordinance.
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Item 19 Friday, August 14, 2026 No vote recorded
This resolution directs the City Manager to stand up an Office of Joint Emergency Communications within the Management Services Department and to take the steps needed to eventually spin off an independent Joint Emergency Communications Department separate from the Austin Police Department. It also asks the City Manager to bring back recommendations on how that standalone department should come together. The move matters because it would reshape where 911 and emergency dispatch operations live in the city's org chart.
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Item 21 Friday, August 14, 2026 No vote recorded
This resolution asks the City Manager to give Council a summary list of police misconduct complaints — the records long known around Austin as the "G-file" — plus related information. It also directs staff to size up the costs and any legal, technological, or operational hurdles to building a public online database of misconduct allegations. For a city that's spent years debating how much of that file the public gets to see, it's a step toward putting more of it in the open.
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Item 8 Wednesday, August 12, 2026 Passedunofficial This ordinance updates the official roster of job classifications and positions in the Austin Fire Department's classified service, creating certain new positions and repealing the previous ordinance that set those classifications. It's the kind of housekeeping move that keeps the department's staffing structure current, but it shapes how AFD is organized and who fills which ranks. Funding is available in the Fiscal Year 2025-2026 and Fiscal Year 2026-2027 Operating Budgets of Austin Fire.
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Item 9 Wednesday, August 12, 2026 Passedunofficial This ordinance sets up the official job classifications and positions for Austin-Travis County EMS, replacing the version council passed last August. It's the kind of administrative housekeeping that defines the ranks and roles for the folks who show up when you call 911. Funding comes from ATCEMS's Fiscal Year 2026-2027 operating budget.
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Item 10 Wednesday, August 12, 2026 Passedunofficial This ordinance sets the official job classifications and staffing positions in Austin Police's classified service, replacing the prior ordinance that governed those classifications. Funding comes from the Fiscal Year 2026-2027 Operating Budget of Austin Police.
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Item 15 Wednesday, August 12, 2026 Passedunofficial This resolution directs the City Manager to review and recommend key performance measures for the Austin Police Department, including a comprehensive look at existing data, audits, and performance-management models. It's about how the city tracks and evaluates police performance, setting the groundwork for how APD's work gets measured going forward.
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Item 17 Wednesday, August 12, 2026 Passedunofficial This resolution directs the City Manager to draft a security plan for Austin's parks and recreation lands, including acquiring and deploying equipment to improve safety at parks with a history of violent crime. Any surveillance technology used has to comply with the city's TRUST Act (Ordinance No. 20260423-029). For anyone who spends time in Austin's green spaces, it's a look at how the city plans to balance safety measures with privacy protections.
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Item 19 Wednesday, August 12, 2026 Passed 6-2unofficial This resolution directs the City Manager to stand up an Office of Joint Emergency Communications within the Management Services Department and take steps toward creating an independent Joint Emergency Communications Department that sits outside the Austin Police Department. It also calls for recommendations on how to build out that independent department. The move matters because it would shift responsibility for the city's emergency communications — the folks who answer and route 911 calls — away from APD and into their own standalone operation.
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Item 21 Wednesday, August 12, 2026 Passedunofficial This resolution directs the City Manager to hand Council a summary list of police misconduct complaints — the records long known around town as the "G-file" — along with related information. It also asks staff to size up what it takes to build a public online database of misconduct allegations, including the costs and any legal, technological, or operational hurdles. For anyone tracking police accountability and transparency in Austin, it's a step toward getting this information into public view.
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Item 24 Thursday, April 23, 2026 Passed 10-0
The City owns the Two Barton Skyway Building on South MoPac, where it currently leases office space to a private tenant, Maslow Wealth Advisors. This item tweaks that lease so it wraps up sooner — by August 31, 2026 — with the option to keep the tenant month-to-month for up to four more months, all part of the City's plan to turn the buildings into a new Public Safety Headquarters for Austin Fire, Police, and EMS. Because the City is shortening the lease, it expects to bring in less rent: a projected $20,433 less in FY 2025-2026 and $81,731 less in FY 2026-2027.
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Item 26 Thursday, April 23, 2026 Passed 10-0
The city wants to amend its lease with Open Lending LLC, which rents about 25,368 square feet at the One Barton Skyway Building off South MoPac — a property the city is eyeing as a future Public Safety Headquarters for Austin Fire, Police, and Austin-Travis County EMS. The amendment would move up the lease's end date to December 31, 2026, and waive Open Lending's base rent and other charges from April through December 2026, clearing the space sooner. That waiver totals $958,480, which means less revenue for Austin Facilities Management — about $634,759 less in FY2025-2026 and $323,721 less in FY2026-2027.
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Item 29 Thursday, April 23, 2026 Passed 10-0
This ordinance would add a brand-new chapter to the City Code laying out rules for how any Austin city department adopts, buys, deploys, uses, and reviews surveillance technology. It matters because it sets citywide ground rules for the kinds of tools departments can use to watch and gather information, rather than leaving those decisions scattered. The item is listed as having no fiscal impact.
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Item 37 Thursday, April 23, 2026 Passed 10-0
The Council is looking to launch a "Safe to Call" stakeholder process, directing the City Manager to explore strategies that would reassure victims, witnesses, and vulnerable community members that it's safe to dial up the City for emergency services. The idea is that folks shouldn't have to fear consequences when they reach out for help in a crisis. If approved, the City Manager would gather stakeholders, develop potential policies, and report back to Council.
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Item 46 Thursday, April 23, 2026 Passed 10-0
This resolution lets the city use eminent domain to acquire roughly 0.282 acres off Mount Larson Road in West Austin so it can build a communications tower for the Greater Austin-Travis County Regional Radio System. The tower is meant to boost radio coverage across central Austin and Travis County for city and county public safety and public service agencies. The land, owned by NW Communications of Austin (formerly Austin Argyle Television), is appraised at $61,505, with funding available in the Austin Technology Services capital budget — though the final price could rise through updated appraisals, a settlement, or a court judgment.
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Item 66 Thursday, April 23, 2026 No final action
Council is set to meet privately with its legal counsel to talk through legal issues tied to SB 4, a state law passed during the 85th Texas Legislative Session that deals with how local governments enforce state and federal immigration laws. Because this is a closed-door consultation under Section 551.071 of the Government Code, the public won't be in the room for the discussion itself. It matters because it touches on how Austin navigates its legal obligations around immigration enforcement.
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Item 67 Thursday, April 23, 2026 No final action
Council is heading into closed session to talk through the legal and real estate side of acquiring about 0.282 acres (roughly 12,301 square feet) at 00 Mount Larson Road by eminent domain. The land would host a communications tower meant to boost radio coverage for City and County public safety and public service departments. Eminent domain means the City could take the property even without a willing seller, so this matters to the affected landowner and to first responders who rely on solid radio coverage.
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