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  1. skittlebrau

    Austin FC

    Lotta tequila involved in this week’s podcast. https://austinanthem.org/media/
  2. We can’t have both because the current HOT rate is 17%, which is the maximum allowable by law. The agreement on the TPID is predicated on the tax rate going down by 2% after the current convention center expansion is paid off, bringing it down to 15%. Hotels have agreed to add a 2% tax for the TPID after that, bringing the rate back up to 17%. The 2% can be used for a wide variety of tourism purposes. If the county comes in and takes that 2% first though passage of prop A, the hotels are not going to subject themselves to an additional 2%, which would make the total rate of 19% the highest in the state.
  3. skittlebrau

    Austin FC

    Cut a Heart Walk promo on the way to the stadium groundbreaking. I’ve never been so motivated to nail something on the first take so I wasn’t late to the event.
  4. Common wisdom is that voting for this would kill the TPID deal between the city and downtown hotels, which would create a Mexican American cultural district and additional funds for homelessness solutions. Wish they had a better plan b/c I’m not sure what we are voting for. Expo Center definitely needs improvements, but I’ve also heard talk about using the money to build a large music venue on the property, which wouldn’t make any sense.
  5. I believe you mean county commissioner and not council member.
  6. skittlebrau

    Austin FC

    They said at the M&G last week that they were going to start selling premium club seats around the first of the year and that they hoped to have it all wrapped up by June.
  7. skittlebrau

    Austin FC

    Hopefully it was for something good and not a police sketch.
  8. skittlebrau

    Austin FC

    That flat surface is where the supporters stand is going to be. Will pretty much be my home 18 months from now.
  9. Wait, is the Governor saying that the ordinance repeal is making homeless people poop more? Because the act of pooping in public remains illegal.
  10. Yeah. This. They announced previously that particular location was going to be shut down. Well before the Governor decided to make a political statement today.
  11. Adrian has been pretty strong. Happy to not have the Simon Mignolet experience right now.
  12. Do we talk land development code stuff here or in the City Council thread? Either way, this is my new favorite Twitter account. https://twitter.com/ATXNIMBYHOMES
  13. Fun fact - Pro wrestler Dr Death Steve Williams died of throat cancer in 2009 at the age of 49.
  14. There are four sides to this story - homeless advocates, APD, Matt Mackowiak and Council. I’m sure that none of them are being completely up front.
  15. What's the problem with this one? Either the Mayor's not being truthful about direction to APD, APD's not being truthful about what they can/can't enforce, or people are making up stories about what they've been "told" by APD. Seems like this encourages folks to help find the truth.
  16. Didn't you go to high school with Edwin Waller? I mean, technically 183 wasn't a freeway when I moved here, so I should have said they've been there for at least the last decade or so.
  17. Those people at 183/Braker have been there for as long as I’ve lived in Austin.
  18. NHM, not Houston, right? Stuff like this. And real budget money in programs designed to change things and not just band aids. City, county to look to private investors to help on homelessness: Under the model, Social Finance, a nonprofit that specializes in Pay for Success programs, recruits private investors to provide upfront capital to operate the program. The public sector entities – the city and county – will reimburse the investors based on the results of the program. If the program performs poorly, the investors may not earn any reimbursement. If it performs very well, the investors will get back enough money to turn a profit
  19. I’ve been in a couple conversations with CM Flannigan over the last week and I think they are moving toward real solutions that we haven’t tried here before. Council totally let the narrative get away from them and the pragmatics among them have been strangely silent.
  20. Well, the main one is that the APU is trying to stick it to Council for what went down with the contract last year. Throwing your hands up and claiming you can’t enforce things that are clearly illegal and telling Council that they’ve sent a message that they don’t want any of the laws still on the books to be enforced, which is what APD has done, is one way to do it. The ordinance changes also mean that we don’t need cops to respond to nuisance calls, which reduces their workload, which undercuts the arguments for more officers. Public safety is a huuuuuge part of our budget and the contention between the costs of the police department and every other thing the city does is only going to get bigger when revenue caps hit.
  21. Good job by the Austin Police Union to throw gasoline on the fire since not everyone saw "hire more cops" as the solution to this issue.
  22. That's no worse than whatever has been there for years.
  23. Bolton. Wait.........
  24. Really hoping for a third one in the playoffs. So much fun.
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