The city manager successfully fended off passage of a City Council resolution that would have moved negotiations with the Austin Police Association over a new labor contract in a direction unfavorable to the union – but it may well have cost him his job.
that Council agreed near-unanimously to ask for Cronk’s resignation during its executive session Thursday night, called specifically toin the wake of the city’s crisis-management failures during Winter Storm Mara.
After a protracted and confusing discussion on the dais, which saw Cronk resist the will of Council to an unprecedented degree, the item was ultimately postponed. Council will likely take up the resolution next week, possibly Feb. 15, along with a vote on the four-year contract which Cronk and APA leadership greatly prefer.
Why would Cronk rush to announce a tentative agreement had been made on a four-year contract at this very moment? Cronk’s defense is that the decision was not rushed at all; his team’s goal had always been to reach a deal in principle by mid-February, so it could be presented to APA members and Council before Feb. 26. The current contract does not expire until March 31, but for APA and Austin Police Department leadership, the Feb. 26 date is just as important.
Vela said as much Thursday night.
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