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Majority of Council opposes "strong mayor" proposition on May ballot

Majority of Council opposes "strong mayor" proposition on May ballot
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"Strong-Mayor" Proposal Divides Austin's Progressives

Photo by John Anderson
The upcoming May 1 special election provides Austinites with an opportunity to fundamentally change the structure of city government. To some, these changes are revolutionary advances toward a more robust local democracy; to others, they threaten to cause a catastrophic collapse of Austin s current progressive consensus. Either way, a very big deal.
Five of the eight city propositions on the May 1 ballot – Propositions D through H – are charter amendments that began life last July in the mind of Andrew Allison, a local entrepreneur with previous lives as an attorney and political speechwriter. That was at the peak of public outcry against Austin police Chief Brian Manley for (among a slew of other missteps) the Austin Police Department s gross mishandling of the May 31 Black Lives Matter protests against police brutality, sparked by the killings of George Floyd in Minneapolis and, a month earlier, Mike Ramos here in Austin. ....

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Strong-Mayor Proposal Likely Headed to May Ballot

On Monday, Jan. 11,
Austinites for Progressive Reform submitted its petition, with 24,000 signatures, for a May election on four amendments to the Austin city charter – the biggest being a switch from
council-manager government to the
strong-mayor model used in many big U.S. cities, including Houston, but not in most Texas cities. City Clerk
Janette Goodall will test a random sample of those signatures, as state law allows, to verify that APR met the 20,000-name threshold for the ballot. (
Save Austin Now failed this test when it submitted its petition to restore Austin s ban on public camping, which it is challenging in court.) ....

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