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Aug. 23, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
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
City Budget Breakdown
The final presentation of the city's $525.3 million proposed budget for fiscal year 2007 is Friday, Aug. 31; the focus: Major Utilities and Infrastructure and Growth Management – yea haw!
"...today's focus on Major Utilities and Infrastructure and Growth Management – but as Austin continues its unabated growth, these..."
Sept. 1, 2006 News Column by Wells Dunbar
EUD's Self-Help Program
Cutting Down Never Hurt So Much
"...conservation program and the EUD transfer to the general fund. Presumably, cutting the conservation program will lead to more..."
Dec. 20, 1996 News Column by Alex de Marban
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.
"...fully cover expenses, even without transfers into the quasi-controversial Debt Management Fund. Blame God. "That's a function of the..."
Aug. 30, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
Austin Energy Budget
A summary comparison of Austin Energy's current and recent budgets
"...Debt service: $185.9 / 3.0% / 4.3%..."
Aug. 23, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
You Can't Touch This
The budget battles, Round 2: Citizens rally to save community services
"...the council has to cut $38 million in General Fund spending and raise property taxes just to break even..."
Aug. 22, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
Naked City
Austin Stories
"...-- specifically, using part of AE's famous $181 million debt-management fund for new solar generation. Others in the community..."
Aug. 8, 2003 News Feature
After the Pandemic at the Alamo Drafthouse
New management, new owners: Can the Austin movie chain retain what made it special?
"...firms, with League as a minority shareholder: Altamont Capital Management, which quietly took a majority stake in the company..."
July 2, 2021 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker
Spaceflight Records' Nonprofit Clears for Takeoff
An ambitious vision for debt-free record deals attracts notable music industry interest
"...On the Jumbotrons over Auditorium Shores, the label announced fundraising efforts in their intergalactic visual aesthetic...."
April 22, 2022 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
"...will help pay for placement of the ad; additional funds raised will go toward the Choice Project. Donations can..."
Nov. 28, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
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
Winners and Losers: Comparing This Year's Budget to Last
"...highlights here are a 34% increase in the Transportation Fund, and the fee on your utility bill that goes..."
Aug. 22, 1997 News Feature
Budget Woes at AISD
Doesn't look like AISD will be cutting property tax rates any time soon
"...$10.80: With an interest and sinking rate (used for debt management) of $1.23, the combined rate would be $12.03...."
Aug. 15, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker
Austin Energy's Strategic Plan
The details of the utility's 50-year vision for the future
"...find out too much about AE's long-term fiscal and debt-management policy, or the day-to-day operations of its generation and..."
Nov. 28, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
Are City Employee Pensions at Risk?
Pension systems in Dallas and Houston have been beat up by bad spending.
"...Public pension systems – funds that pay out retirement income to city employees, based..."
Feb. 24, 2017 News Feature by Margaret Nicklas
Heal Thyself
City to Perform Self-Reflection
"...being conducted by none other than top level city management. Auditor/Auditee Let's start with management's comprehensive audit of itself...."
Dec. 8, 1995 News Feature
Boom and Gloom
Austin's Budget Struggles to Keep Up
"..."The way we finance basic government services will require fundamental changes in the future." The word "crisis," especially when..."
Aug. 22, 1997 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
Walking the High Finance Wire
Bergstrom Costs Going Up and Up
"...have been reports of costs going up while federal funding is slashed; of Councilmember Brigid Shea berating the city's..."
May 12, 1995 News Feature by Dave Cook
Can Schlotzsky's Be Saved?
John Wooley and the battle to bring Schlotzsky's back to life
"...could do no wrong, but in recent years, ballooning debt and deflating sales were taking their toll on the..."
Oct. 8, 2004 News Feature by Amy Smith
And the Winner Is...
Who Will Benefit the Most From Annexation?
"...the Texas Municipal League, Terrell Blodgett, a UT urban management professor, LBJ Dean Edwin Dorn, and city Planning Commission..."
Nov. 14, 1997 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton
Dollars Down to Earth
1995-96 City Budget Shoots for Balance
"...It's going to be harder and harder for city management to keep up with Austin's heady development. Forecasts for..."
Sept. 8, 1995 News Feature
It's a Good Economy, Stupid
Austin Plays Weak Catch-Up in Boom Times
"...Instead, the boom dividend is going to fund yesterday's needs, still unmet. The new revenue to be..."
Aug. 23, 1996 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
"...Again?" Oct. 11]. The past failure to collect this debt by the responsible federal agency, the FDIC, has been..."
Oct. 18, 2002 Column
Total Utility
The pain and politics of raising electric rates as a means of controlling our destiny
"...Still, absentees might better define that morning's event. City management and staff rarely take part in these occasions, as..."
June 15, 2012 News Feature by Mike Kanin
1995-96 City Budget: The Electric Utility
Holding the Line
"...than 12% of the EUD's revenue to the general fund, and instead want to transfer only 11.7% next year,..."
Aug. 25, 1995 News Feature
Health Care Elephants Battle Over Med School Prop. 1
St. David's formally opposes the proposition to build a med school in Austin
"...with the city of Austin, Seton (a nonprofit) assumed management of Brack in the 1990s. As Central Health's financial..."
Nov. 2, 2012 News Feature by Mike Kanin
The Chips Are Down
Budget balancing picks up speed – and it's anything but fun and games
"...of implementation; for instance, police proposals to cut unneeded debt service ranked first, while canceling this year's cadet class..."
June 26, 2009 News Feature by Wells Dunbar
The Budget Is Hell
Mitchell Loses Big While Griffith Saves the Day
"...temporarily. The prize, that which remained in the general fund after accounting for the necessities, was $5.6 million. Into..."
Sept. 20, 1996 News Column by Alex de Marban
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
"...the current school-finance system, had the state continued to fund its proportionate share." – Former Lt. Gov. Bill Ratliff,..."
