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Council OKs Plan To Reinstate Austin's Bans On Camping – But Only After Finding People Housing


Camping bans under I-35 could be reinstated.
The Austin City Council OK'd a measure that could effectively bring back targeted bans on camping in public.
Council Member Ann Kitchen's plan, known as the HEAL Initiative, asks City Manager Spencer Cronk to identify encampments in dangerous locations, provide resources to move people there into housing and then suggest policies to prohibit camps at those sites.
Council members Mackenzie Kelly, Leslie Pool, Pio Renteria and Kathie Tovo all co-sponsored the item. It passed 8 to 3, with Mayor Pro Tem Natasha Harper-Madison joining council members Vanessa Fuentes and Greg Casar in voting against it.

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APD Chief and Austin Police Association Get Prickly Over Post-Sedition Suggestions


In a contentious email exchange with Council Member
Alison Alter, Austin Police Department Chief
Brian Manley declined to "proactively investigate" to determine if anyone from the department participated in the Jan. 6
Capitol insurrection in Washington, D.C.
In emails obtained by the
Chronicle, the CM also asked the chief to send a message to his officers condemning the participation of law enforcement in the uprising that led to at least five deaths. As of Jan. 16, according to reporting by progressive legal news site The Appeal, 32 people from 15 states who took part in the Jan. 6 "
Stop the Steal" Trump rally have been outed as law enforcement officers. "I suggest that you make clear to every officer and staff member where our department leadership stands," Alter wrote in an email copied to her staff, City Manager

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Austin Council Members Casar, Alter, Harper-Madison jockey for mayor pro tem


But right now. it's the source of a very big fuss.
The largely ceremonial title confers no authority to the titleholder beyond running council meetings when the mayor is away. It does not come with a salary bump or a bigger office. 
But it could carry weight with voters in the 2022 race to replace Steve Adler as Austin's mayor or could enhance a candidate's résumé in a race for some other office. 
For the past two years, District 2 representative Delia Garza has been Austin's mayor pro tem. Her departure — to be Travis County Attorney — opened up the spot, which the colleagues Garza left behind thought they'd be able to work privately to fill.

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Who Wants to Be Mayor Pro Tem? More People Than You Might Think.


Council Member
Greg Casar announced in a Dec. 16 message board post that he had enough votes to be elected by his colleagues as the city's next
mayor pro tem. The title is mostly ceremonial, often granted to the CM with seniority on the dais or to someone who would break through some kind of barrier – such as former Mayor Pro Tem
Delia Garza, the first Latina to hold the position – so it appeared Casar would sail through the backstage campaigning that has characterized past MPT races.
But Casar's post ended on a now-telling note: After naming CMs
Pio Renteria,
Leslie Pool, and

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Austin Sister Cities International Hosts Virtual Mayoral Holiday Reception - Press Release


AUSTIN, Texas - December 18, 2020 - (Newswire.com)
Austin Sister Cities International Hosted City of Austin Mayor Steve Adler and City Council Members at a Virtual Holiday Reception on Dec. 9, 2020, to celebrate Austin’s cultural diversity.
The event showcased a real-life instance of ASCI’s mission of promoting diplomacy through culture, education and economic development.
The evening’s highlights included an understanding of global culinary etiquette, catering by family-owned restaurants specializing in Nigerian, Japanese, Indian, Turkish, German & Mexican cuisines, stories shared about events and programs where the exchange of cultural understanding strengthened ties between cities internationally and the promise to strive harder to build bridges and global understanding of citizen diplomacy.

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Austin's groundbreaking social contract is first of its kind in nation


Austin's groundbreaking social contract is first of its kind in nation
Austin leaders just issued a groundbreaking resolution: a citywide social contract.
Photo courtesy of Society of Architectural Historians
During its meeting on Thursday, December 10, the Austin City Council issued a groundbreaking directive to the city manager: write a social contract for Austin. The council has tasked City Manager Spencer Cronk to work with the city’s Joint Inclusion Committee to write the document, which is to be presented to the council by June 1, 2021. 
"A global pandemic and racial unrest have led this nation and communities across the country to an inflection point; and ... despite the polarization playing out on the national stage, the Austin community strives to rise above," reads the resolution.

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