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Austin City Council was presented with a $6.3 billion proposed budget for 2025-26 Over the coming weeks, community input meetings and budget work sessions will be hosted by Austin City Council ...

According to city financial staff, last year Austin made up 23.7% of your property tax bill. Austin Independent School District claimed the most at 47.6%.

Austin’s new city manager T.C. Broadnax is proposing another record-high budget at $5.9 billion. It’s a 5% increase from the previous fiscal year of $5.5 billion.

According to the city, the typical Austin homeowner would see an increase of $8.52 per month, or $102.26 per year, in the city's portion of their annual property tax bill.

The mother of a 25-year-old man murdered in a 2021 mass shooting in Texas wrote a scathing letter to Austin City Council for defunding police, which she said led directly to her son’s death.

Austin has been without a permanent city manager since Spencer Cronk was fired by the City Council in February 2023 in part due to the city's response to that year's winter storm that left many ...