Change is coming to City Council, but how much?
Council: Natasha Harper-Madison, Leslie Pool, José Velásquez, Vanessa Fuentes, Paige Ellis, City Manager Spencer Cronk, Mayor Kirk Watson, City Attorney Ann Morgan, Zo Qadri, Mackenzie Kelly, Ryan Alter, Chito Vela, and Alison Alter
This is not a guessing game. The Federal Transit Administration has already indicated that Project Connect will be highly competitive on other scoring criteria, such as its financial plan, integration with other mobility improvements , and environmental benefits.
Alison Alter, whose District 10 includes most of the city west of Lamar Boulevard from U.S. 183 to Southwest Parkway, takes the other side of Vela's proposition."It's not a given that if you allow for more density around transit, that you're going to get the mobility shifts needed to support it," she said."And it's certainly true that we won't get the affordable housing we need unless we build it from the get-go.
There's a broad awareness on Council that the clock is already ticking."We have to move fast with our station-area planning so that housing can come online quicker," CM Vanessa Fuentes told us. She's especially concerned about moving quickly, because her Southeast Austin district has so far not seen the same type and rate of gentrification as the other three Eastside districts."It would take us more time than we have if we approach ETOD planning from too granular a level.
Finding areas of agreement on officer pay and benefits is important because in theory that's what will most directly impact APD's recruitment and retention as it, like all other government agencies, struggles with staffing shortfalls. But all CMs we spoke to agree those issues are secondary to creating a robust, transparent system of police accountability.
Those tactics have left a bad taste in the mouth of most CMs, who say another of their goals with the contract is to improve the now-terrible relationship between APA and Council. Supporting a petition campaign that was run deceptively makes that healing harder to accomplish."The city has a complicated relationship with APA," CM Paige Ellis said,"and it was always going to be difficult to strike the right balance between oversight and wages.
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