Kevin Todd

[Adam Loewy @LoewyLawFirm]

Very sad to see the Mayor pushing revisionist history which can easily be disproved.

Why wouldn’t he just be honest about this?

[Audit Austin City Council @saveaustintx]

Former Austin Mayor Steve Adler blatently lying about defunding the police. He defunded the police and also cancel cadet classes that 4 years later are still short 100’s of officers. You cannot loathe this lying scumbag enough ��� https://t.co/qjW5AkLRrf

[Kevin Todd @KevinTodd9]

This guy is such a narcissist

[Mackenzie Kelly @mkelly007]

Imagine getting Community Noted by... your own memoir.

[Jennifer Hackney-Szimanski @Jennifer_cleat]

Down hundreds of officers and a DA/CA who won’t prosecute…leaving the revolving door in place…they will need every dime.

[Mackenzie Kelly @mkelly007]

Imagine getting Community Noted by... your own memoir.

[Savanah Hernandez @Savsays]

@data_atx @ATXVideos Interesting…although I feel like instead of spending another $200k for social workers we could save the taxpayers money and just enforce the basic rules of the library 🤦‍♀️

[austinreform @austinreforms]

Correct. What our civic leadership has done to our libraries is atrocious

Let’s vote them all out Nov 3!

[Kevin Todd @KevinTodd9]

@PaigeForAustin

[austinreform @austinreforms]

@statesman @chaya_tong Billions have been spent on nonprofits contracts

Very few measurable outcomes

It’s embarrassing

Nearly all of these should be cancelled immediately

Zero percent increase in money

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The council should be cutting taxes and eliminating waste, not driving us all into debt

[Bill Aleshire @AleshireLaw]

#txlege Why should there be any less transparency of detailed information about expenditures and performance when the City of Austin contracts with NGO’s to perform city services than there would be if the services were performed in house? Every NGO should have to respond to a public information request about the use of public funds and performance as the City would have to do.

[Kevin Todd @KevinTodd9]

@LuzMorenoLozano @_AustinCurrent

[Bill Aleshire @AleshireLaw]

To @TravisCoJudge @KirkPWatson
I invite you to share this with your colleagues:

In the next week or so, social service agencies have arranged to have folks testify at your meetings and flood you with emails and phone calls lobbying you to give them more tax money in your upcoming budgets. The City has decided to exempt these organizations from your vendor anti-lobbying rules and they even used their nonprofit organization public funds to directly contribute campaign contributions to passage of Prop Q last Fall.

These are people who, for many years, have leveraged public funds to build political influence affecting elections to the county commissioners court and city council elections. So, they help elect city/county politicians, so those politicians would give them more tax money.

Be mindful that when they present the heart-tugging sad-sack stories of their inability to afford what they want, when you increase taxes, you are forcefully taking away money from those households and small businesses of money they earned to block them from using that money for what they want.

Austin has become a giant welfare state. Social service agencies here get a bigger share of their funding from city/county money, by far than comparable agencies in other Texas cities,e.,g., Houston. Anytime someone looks closely at whether the Travis/Austin social service funding is producing valuable and efficient and effective results, we see that is not the case.

So, here’s my point: Regardless of any heartfelt sincere desire to spend county or city taxes charitably because you feel a moral obligation to do so, remember This: There is No moral purpose to forcefully taking taxes away from people to waste it. Even if it helps you get re-elected. And if that’s why you are doing it, damn you to Hell.

[Bill Aleshire @AleshireLaw]

Simple political truth: To stop the nonsense, the same broad political coalition that defeated the Austin tax increase election last November must come back together to:

1. defeat the bond proposal

2. replace the 4 incumbent Council Members (Paige Ellis, Jose Velasquez, Ryan Alter, Zo Qadri) running for re-election, and

3. pass the Charter Audit Amendment.

[Tara @Arataratd]

@KirkPWatson Would you audit things like this? https://t.co/P0x4QX2cmr

[ATX data @data_atx]

Nonprofit contract of the day

Austin paid Goodwill $685k last year for an educational program that 26 people completed

[ATX data @data_atx]

This is the 3rd rail of Austin budget discussions. No council member will even broach the subject of stopping this even though it’s a big line item and makes up about a quarter of our tax increase next year

Only @GregAbbott_TX and #txlege can help now

[Kevin Todd @KevinTodd9]

@JenRobichaux It is truly unfortunate that Mackenzie is not still on the Council. She is badly needed.

[Bill Aleshire @AleshireLaw]

What’s going on here with the Austin budget/tax increase?

There’s an updated public notice is in the Statesman today (8/3/26). On July 27th the City had a public notice that the proposed budget would increase property tax $82 million or 6.8% and now has the notice that budget increases property taxes $103 million or 8.7%. Are they listening at all?

[ATX data @data_atx]

Austin councilman Siegel is really pushing hard against consultants

He found a contract the city had where it was paying $720 per hour for customized executive coaching. Yikes!

[ATX data @data_atx]

Great comment. Lower taxes = affordability.

[Mackenzie Kelly @mkelly007]

New on Substack: The Audit I Didn’t Want to Write About

A City audit found:
• $100 million spent
• 76% of contracts missed at least one performance goal
• 44% of performance measures went unmet

I explain why this wasn’t surprising and why it should matter to every Austinite. #atxcouncil

https://t.co/uBPpJDdfuE