July 28, 2026 Austin City Council Budget Meeting

Budget Meeting of the Austin City Council
July 28, 2026: Agenda

This agenda includes items that are not related to budget.

Meeting Agenda

Agenda Items - July 28, 2026

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This agenda includes items that are not related to budget.

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The City Council may go into a closed session as permitted by the Texas Open Meetings Act, (Chapter 551 of the Texas Government Code) regarding any item on this agenda.

10:00 AM – City Council Convenes

Budget and Organizational Excellence

Item 1

Presentation and discussion of the City Manager’s Fiscal Year 2026-2027 Proposed Budget.

Work Papers and Other Backup Documentation

20260728-001, Agenda Backup: Recommendation for Action, PDF, 107 KB, posted 7/22/2026

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Public Hearings

Item 2

Conduct a public hearing on proposed charter amendments including: A)clarifying that the Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission is independent of Council control, allowing the ICRC to review City districts after changes to the City’s boundary lines, providing an effective date for the redistricting plan adopted by the ICRC, increasing the number of individuals in the pool of potential appointees to the ICRC, clarifying the method and timing of filling vacancies on the ICRC, and allowing City staff to communicate with the ICRC outside of a meeting; B)deleting language providing that the Council shall meet at least once each week; C)deleting language requiring the Council to determine its rules and order of business by ordinance; D)clarifying the meaning of the term “election” and to provide that the campaign contribution and expenditure limits shall be modified each year by January 1st instead of with the adoption of the budget; E)providing that initiative elections and petitioned charter amendment elections must be held on the next available November election date that occurs in an even-numbered year and that allows sufficient time to comply with other requirements of law; F)providing that a petition for an election to recall a Council Member other than the Mayor must contain valid signatures of at least 15% of the qualified voters of the respective Council district, instead of the current 10%, and clarifying that the affidavit on the recall petition must be signed by a petition circulator; G)providing that the Council appoints and removes the City Attorney; H)making the time frame for the automatic resignation provision for municipal court judges the same as that provided in the Texas Constitution for other officials; I)ensure that City financial practices are consistent with generally accepted accounting principles, reflect current practices for appropriations for department-level work programs; J)removing appointees and employees of the office of the City Auditor from the classified civil service; K)making non-substantive corrections of typographical errors, punctuation, and sentence structure, and to change or remove language that is moot or unenforceable because it has been superseded by state law or by a final court order; L)removing the restriction that officeholders must wait until after leaving office to solicit and accept political contributions to pay unpaid campaign expenses or to reimburse campaign expenditures made from personal funds and to impose contribution limits on such officeholders; and M)requiring an independent affordability and efficiency initiative before any tax rate increase and requiring the independent contractor to identify annual and multi-year savings; N)any other charter amendments proposed by the public.