The Austin City Council recently heard from concerned citizens wanting the city budget to include funding for areas of need across the city. Mayor Pro Tem Paige Ellis joins FOX 7 Austin's Mike Warren to discuss.
I think we're starting from a really good place. The city's budget is quite large, but a lot of the dollars are allocated year over year over year. So when you look at the pie charts of what percentages are going to which departments, you don't really see a lot of wiggle room either way.
One more quick question on affordability. For all the people out there who say, you know, if you want Austin more affordable, just lower property taxes. What's your reply to that?Well, what's difficult about that is we always have to follow that question up with which services get cut. We don't want to close libraries. We don't want to close pools. We really need the community involvement at that point to let us know if they want us to deliver fewer services.
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