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The Austin Police Department is still struggling with sworn officer staffing shortages but has made progress on filling vacancies in 911 call taker positions, city staff told the Austin City ...
Austin Police Department (APD) is the principal law enforcement agency serving Austin, Texas. As of fiscal year 2022, the agency had an annual budget of $443.1 million [5] and employed around 2,484 personnel, including approximately 1,809 officers. [6] The department also employs 24 K-9 police dogs and 16 horses. [6]
Austin formerly operated its City Hall at 124 West 8th Street. [3] In the 1980s, the City of Austin proposed a 60-acre urban renewal project for Austin's Warehouse District, [4] which would have included a new city hall complex designed by urban planner Denise Scott Brown, along with a new location for the Laguna Gloria art museum, designed by architect Robert Venturi. [5]
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The Austin Fire Department is the fourth largest fire department (by number of personnel) in the state of Texas. [3] In total, the department is responsible for an area of 272 square miles (700 km 2) and services a population of 885,400 (2013 estimate), the 11 th largest city by population in the United States. [4]
Under the current consideration, the Austin district, which has a tax rate of 85.95 cents per $100 of property valuation, is proposing to ask voters to authorize a tax rate of 92.87 cents per $100 ...
Garza's last day as Austin's interim city manager is May 3. Jesús Garza is leaving City Hall soon. Here's what he said about his time as Austin's interim manager
Austin, Travis County and Williamson County have been the site of human habitation since at least 9200 BC. The area's earliest known inhabitants lived during the late Pleistocene (Ice Age) and are linked to the Clovis culture around 9200 BC (over 11,200 years ago), based on evidence found throughout the area and documented at the much-studied Gault Site, midway between Georgetown and Fort Cavazos.