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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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That's no worse than whatever has been there for years.
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Bolton. Wait.........
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Really hoping for a third one in the playoffs. So much fun.
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Debuted this one in January.
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Will be @ 10:30 am. Planning to throw a rager that night to celebrate.
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Austin City Government - Circus of the Insane
skittlebrau replied to skittlebrau's topic in Daily Texan
I did love the city getting the jump on the county with the tax increase. Because the Expo Center is a shithole that should be no more. -
Austin City Government - Circus of the Insane
skittlebrau replied to skittlebrau's topic in Daily Texan
HOT revenue can’t be used for any of that. There’s a specific list of things you can do with it. After losing twice last year, I’m really hoping that losing twice again this year will convince people to stop giving money to Bunch/Lewis/Linder/ANC/etc. -
Austin City Government - Circus of the Insane
skittlebrau replied to skittlebrau's topic in Daily Texan
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One year ago today, there was a city council vote. And then we threw a rager at Haymaker that started right about now.
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There's also a grackle in the artwork at the experience center, which makes me happy.
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I just happy that I now know @Pasken's reddit user name.
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I think there’s a good chance Flannigan runs. He has pretty good relationships in the business community, but not enough that someone else couldn’t solidify that base.
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Strong eyebrow game.
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KVUE doing a great job of sensationalizing every encounter to drive up hatred of the homeless. They’re doing the same things they’ve always done. The media just sees an opportunity to sell a few ad clicks now. And fuck a bunch of Mayor Kitchen. That would be the worst. Really hoping Jimmy or someone out of the business community is the next mayor.
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Yep. I think they are just selling super premium club/suite tickets right now. Call was basically to figure out where my interest was. Seems like they are doing it in phases starting with the most expensive tickets first.
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Sure. Don’t know how that relates to the percentage of ticket deposits who convert to actual tickets.
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Atlanta converted 22,000 of the 31,000 deposits they got in the first few months.
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I'd expect Austin to be quite a bit more than FC Dallas per ticket.
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Agree with this expectation on SG tickets.
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Anyone else going to BD Riley’s? I’ll be there with my 10 YO. Should be a scene.
