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AUSTIN (KXAN) — There are a whopping seven people running for Austin City Council District 7 to fill Austin City Council Member’s Leslie Pool’s seat. The city of Austin hosted candidate ...
Watson, who served as mayor from 1997 to 2001 before again running and winning the city’s highest elected office in 2022, will face former City Council member Kathie Tovo; Carmen Llanes Pulido ...
The city website described the council’s Aug. 14 meeting as the "budget adoption reading of the Austin City Council," but the agenda included other business, including setting a special election ...
The National League of Cities University is a professional development center for elected officials (mayors and city council members) and municipal staff, with trainings and courses designed to enhance local leaders and staff’s ability to govern, work across sectors, manage systems change, and achieve equitable outcomes.
The Austin City Council is the unicameral legislature of the city of Austin, Texas, United States of America. The mayor is included as a member of the council and presides over all council meetings and ceremonies. The current mayor of Austin is Kirk Watson. The duty of the council is to decide the city budget, taxes, and various other ...
The council seat representing part of North Austin is currently held by Leslie Pool, whose term expires in January 2025. Three candidates enter District 7 Austin City Council race a year out from ...
The City Council — which consists of 11 members, 10 of who represent geographic districts with only the mayor elected at large — makes policy decisions for the city.
Martinez became an Austin City Council member in June 2006. [1] [6] That December, he sponsored a resolution to preserve Oak Springs in East Austin from development. [4]In January 2007, Martinez sponsored an ordinance to create a Homestead Preservation District that aimed to reduce the effects of rising values by using a portion of increased property taxes to fund affordable housing in East ...