Documents

This 11-page PDF is a copy of the Institute for Local Government's study, Understanding the Role of Ethics Commissions. The document is imporant to Austin because the 2018 Charter Revision Commission has adopted a recommendation to form an Independent Ethics Review Commission.

This 11-page PDF is a copy of a report prepared by the Insitute for Local Government in December 2007 that lays out numerous considerations for the roles that may be played by an independent ethics commission, such as may be recommended by Austin's 2018 Charter Revision Commission. Although the document was published more than a decade ago, it provides side-by-side comparisons to how six California cities chose to structure their Ethics Commissions.

This 25-page PDF is a copy of the summary of recommendations of the 2018 Charter Revision Commission. The document includes seven recommendations already adopted and two that are still under consideration. Although labeled a summary, it provides considerable information about each of the items.

This 1-page PDF is a copy of the City staff's recommendation for amending how the City Council may appoint members of the City's Planning Commission.

This 14-page PDF is a copy of the slides used by Seattle Council Member Teresa Mosqueda to accompany her presentation on Seattle's Democracy Voucher system February 18, 2018, at the Manchaca Branch Library.

his 4-page PDF is a copy of the Resolution approved by the Austin City Council that established the 2018 Charter Revision Commission and its scope of work. The Commission is required to recommend Charter amendments in time for coucil consideration for placement on the November 2018 ballot.

This 1-page PDF contains the language adopted by the Charter Commission for a proposition that would move the City Attorney from the control of the City Manager and give the City Council the ability to hire a City Attorney that would report directly to the Council.

This 4-page PDF is a copy of a June 28, 2017, report titled Public Funding for Electorial Campaigns: How 27 states, counties, and municipalities empower small donors and curb the power of big money in politics.

This 4-page PDF is a copy of the proposition that would establish a City Budget and Efficiency Officer that would be hired by and report directly to the City Council.

This 4-page PDF is a copy of the prelminary report of the City Attorney/Boards and Commissions Committee of the 2018 Charter Review Commission. The report provides options for how the City Attorney may be appointed but makes no recommendation. The report notes that appointment of the City Attorney by the City Council was put before voters in 2012 and failed by garnering 49.37 percent of the votes cast. That left the status quo intact for appointment of the City Attorney by the City Manager.

This 9-page reportof the Campaign Finance Committee was presented to the full 2018 Charter Revision Commission at its January 8, 2018, meeting. Its key recommendations are to implement a small public voucher program and establish an independent ethics commission.

This 5-page PDF is a copy of the preliminary report of the Campaign Finance Committee of the Austin Charter Revision Commission recommending the City of Austin establish an Independent Ethics Commission. This Commission, if put on the ballot by the City Council and approved by voters, would be independent of the CityCouncil, City Manager, and City Attorney and would report to a public board that would hire an executive director. The Commission would adminster and enforce all campaign finance, ethics, conflicts, and lobbyist disclosure laws for the City of Austin.

This 6-page PDF Overview of Municipal Public Finance Programs was prepared by The Illinois Campaign for Political Reform.

This 7-page PDF is a copy of findings from the City of Seattle, Washington, that details its experiences with its first election that funded qualifying candidates with Democracy Vouchers provided by the city. It's important to Austin voters because the Democracy Dollars Program that has been adopted by the 2018 Charter Review Commission was based on the Seattle model.

This seven-page PDF recaps the experience gained in conducting the City of Seattle's first elections in which four $25 Democracy Vouchers were provided to registered voters and other residents to be used in supporting candidates of their choice for county attorney and two city council seats.

This 1-page PDF is a copy of the proposed proposition that will be considered and voted on at the 2018 Charter Revision Commission’s meeting February 26, 2018. The proposal was prepared by Frank Rodriguez after he made a presentation at a previous Commission meeting about the need. He recently resigned from Mayor Steve Adler's staff where among other duties he advised the mayor on city budgets.

This 16-page PDF prepared by Leland Beatty provides an extensive statistical analysis of sources of political contributions made in 2016-2017.

This 38-page PDF is a copy of the line-by-line changes to the Austin City Charter that are for the most part merely cosmetic and reflect style choices.

This 1-page PDF is a copy of the language proposed by the City Auditor that would remove certain employees from the City's Municipal City Service, currently some 23 employees. The measure is strongly opposed by the local chapter of AFSCME.

This 2-page PDF is a copy of the 2018 Charter Revision Commission's subcommittee on Petitions and Recalls. It put on the ballot and enacted it would restore the right of referendum by permitting a petition drive to put on the ballot a proposition to allow voters to rescind an ordinance passed by the City Council. It would also establish the number of signatures required to put on the ballot a measure to recall a mayor or City Council member.

This 1-page PDF is a copy of the letter by which six organizations signed to endorse the Charter Revision Commission's Democracy Dollars Program that will provided tax funded vouchers for residents to contribute to candidates from their council district or mayoral candidates.

This 6-page PDF is a copy of the latest draft of a Democracy Dollars program for public financing of mayoral and city council campaigns. Financial projections indicate this system could be sustained with an annual budget of $1.5 million from the City's general fund.

This 6-page PDF is a copy of the 2018 Charter Revision Commission's Campaign Finance Committee recommendations for establishing a Democracy Dollars Voucher program to fund mayoral and city council candidates campaigns beginning with the 2022 election cycles. Some of the details in this proposal will likely be changed before being approved by the Commission for a recommendation to the City Council to put a proposition on the November 2018 ballot.

This 9-page PDF is a copy of the slides used by Frank Rodriguez to present his research and recommendations to the 2018 Charter Revision Commission February 5, 2018. This is a comprehensive overview of the City of Austin’s annual budget process. It addresses the trend that while the City's sources of revenue are increasing the expenditures are projected to grow even faster. One of the recommendations made in the report is to recommend that a proposition be put on the November 6, 2018, ballot for voter approval to establish a Council Budget and Efficiency Officer that would report directly to the City Council to advise on budgetary matters.

This 2-page PDF is a copy of the Budget Projection for Potential Austin Democracy Voucher Program. The 2018 Charter Revision Commission is likely to recommend that the voucher program be implemented in the mayoral and council elections of November 2018. The projection indicates that with an income of $1.5 million a year the program would remain solvent while being able to meet its commitment to provide campaign funding for mayoral and council candidates.

This 2-page PDF is a copy of the draft proposition that would allow a petition to repeal an ordinance through a petition drive. It also would adjust the number of voters that must sign a petition for recall of a mayor or council member and lays out more specific grounds at least one of which that must be alleged in such a petition.

This 93-page PDF is the final version of the 2018 Charter Review Commission’s report to the City Council. It contains nine recommendations for propositions to be put on the ballot for voters to decide in the November 6, 2018, election. The City Council will decide which, if any, of these actually make it to the ballot.

This 6-page PDF is a copy of records filed with the Texas Secretary of State by The Austin Civic Fund, which is claiming status as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charity although such status has not been approved by the IRS.

This 8-page PDF includes the formation and termination records filed with the Texas Secretary of State by The Austin Civic Fund.

This 5-page PDF is a copy of the records filed with the Texas Secretary of State by The Austin Civic Fund, to include renaming itself Austin Civic Fund Action, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit that does not have to disclose the names of donors.

This 1-page PDF is a copy of a request from the Supreme Court of Texas that the City of Austin file a response to the writ of mandamus In re: Ed English, which seeks to order the City Council to revise the ballot language it used in putting the Efficiency Audit petition ordinance on the November 6, 2018 ballot.

This 12-page PDF is a copy of the Texas Ethics Commission’s guide governing the appointment of campaign treasurers by specific-purpose political action committees.

This 2-page PDF is a copy of the email sent to Austin Public Library staff members to in effect bar people from gathering signatures for the IndyAustin petition drive for CodeNEXT.

This 71-page PDF is a copy of the records provided by the City of Austin in response to The Austin Bulldog's public information request for complaints about petitioning at Austin public libraries from 2006 to date. Only 17 pages contained anything about incident reports involving petitioners, a total of eight incident reports, all of which involved IndyAustin's CodeNEXT petitioners this year.

This 34-page PDF is a copy of the full trial brief filed by plaintiffs to support the request for a writ of mandamus that would order the City of Austin to place the CodeNEXT petition on the November 6, 2018 ballot.

This 19-page PDF is a copy of the plaintiff’s rebuttal of the issues raised in the City of Austin’s Trial Brief on the Merits.

This 6-page PDF is a copy of the plaintiff's request for a writ of mandamus that would order the City of Austin to place the CodeNEXT petition on the November 6, 2018 ballot.

This 1-page PDF is a copy of the petition being circulated by IndyAustin to bring about an election to amend the Austin City Charter that, if approved by voters, would require both a waiting period and voter approval before CodeNEXT or other revisions to the City's comprehensive land development code could become effective.

This 1-page PDF is a copy of IndyAustin's instructions for volunteers who will be gathering signatures at Austin libraries for the group's CodeNEXT petition.

This 1-page PDF is a copy of the petition being circulated by IndyAustin to bring about an election to amend the Austin City Charter to provide a period of time after enactment of an non-emergency ordinance by the Austin City Council to allow completion of a petition drive, which if successful, would trigger an election to allow Austin voters to either accept or repeal such ordinances. The Charter amendment would also require a supermajority of at least eight council members to approve an ordinance as an emergency for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health or safety.

This 4-page PDF is a copy of the petition being circulated by IndyAustin to bring about an election for a new City ordinance governing the use of billboards.

This 113-page PDF is a copy of the petition for a writ of mandamus challenging the Austin City Council’s wording of the ballot language for the CodeNEXT petition ordinance.

This 58-page PDF is a copy of the Original Emergency Petition for a Writ of Mandamus filed by attorney Bill Aleshire on behalf of relator Ed English. It was filed directly with the Texas Supreme Court because the ballot language must be settled by no later than Setpember 7, 2018. If the mandamus is granted, it will order the City Council to post an agenda item and vote to approve language different from what was adopted August 9, 2018, so there was insuffiicent time to go through the lower courts.

This 13-page PDF is a copy of the minutes of a special-called meeting of the Austin City Council during which the council voted 7-4 to authorize the city manager to negotiate and execute an agreement with Precourt Sports Ventures LLC to bring a major league soccer team to Austin.

This 7-page PDF is a copy of the amendments to the term sheet for the Mayor League Soccer Stadium Project.

This 12-page PDF is a copy of the new draft Library Use Rules presented by City staff to the Library Commission May 21, 2018. The format presents line-by-line changes to the current Library Use Rules that have been in effect since February 1, 2017. These draft rules would require petitioners to remain within designated areas, called Limited Public Forums, when gathering signatures at Austin library locations.

This 6-page PDF is a copy of draft rules proposed by the the City of Austin’s Law Department and Library Director. If recommended to the City Council and enacted these rules would restrict the gathering of petition signatures to designated areas around libraries called limited purpose forums.

This 2-page PDF is a copy of proposed draft rules for petitioning and gathering signatures at City of Austin libraries. If adopted it would recommend to the City Council that current rules be preserved.

This 1-page PDF is a copy of the Library Commission's agenda for the meeting of May 21, 2018, in which commissioners may decide which of two proposals may be recommended to the City Council to govern gathering of signatures outside public libraries.

This 9-page PDF is a copy of the memo containing legal advice from Bickerstaff Heath Delgado Acosta law firm, with a forwarding memo from City Attorney to the mayor and council. The legal adivce recommends that the City Council should not call on election on the CodeNEXT petition.

This 103-page PDF is a copy of the Specific-Purpose Committee Campaign Finance Report filed by IndyAustin campaign treasurer Linda Curtis July 16, 2018.

This 4-page PDF is a copy of the email that IndyAustin sent to the Austin mayor, city council members, city manager and city attorney to notify them of the Austin Public Library staff interference with the group’s right to gather signatures for its CodeNEXT petition.

This 64-page PDF is a copy of the campaign finance report filed by the IndyAustin SPAC with the Austin City Clerk.

This 1-page PDF is a copy of the In Fact newsletter that reported the opposition to building a baseball stadium with $10 million in taxpayer's money was being outspent about 6-1 by the company that owned the Phoenix Firebirds and wanted to move the team to Austin. The opposition, whose political action committee was Priorities First!, also lashed out at the Austin American-Statesman for failing to note in its coverage of the stadium issue that the newspaper was a corporate sponsor of the ballpark.

This 1-page PDF is a copy of the In Fact newsletter that reported the grassroots resistance that sprang up in opposition to the City Council's intention to issue $10 million in bonds to build a baseball stadium that would accommodate the Phoenix Firebirds to move to Austin and rename themselves the Austin Swing.

This 1-page PDF is a copy of the In Fact newsletter of October 4, 1995, in which reported that the opponents of building a baseball stadium with $10 million of taxpayers' money were blasting the Austin American-Statesman's for its biased coverage of the issue and not disclosing that the newspaper was a corporate sponsor of the baseball operation. The story also noted that the opposition was being outspent by about 6-1 as supporters of the Park on the Colorado has spent more than a quarter-million dollars.

This 1-pae PDF is a copy of IndyAustin instructions for volunteers who are gathering signatures on its CodeNEXT petition.

This 4-page PDF prepared by Alvarez & Marsal Public Sector Services outlines government efficiency reviews the firm has conducted across a range of governmental agencies.

This 156-page PDF is a copy of the City of Austin’s response to the Original Emergency Petition for a Writ of Mandamus filed August 17, 2018, which challenged the council-approved ballot language that voters will see on the November 6, 2018, ballot concerning the CodeNEXT petition ordinance.

This 6-page PDF is a copy of the Administrative Rules for public use of city properties. Austin Public Libraries Director Roosevelt Weeks said these rules formed the basis for Library Use Rules effective February 1, 2017.

This 27-page PDF is a copy of the Term Sheet that sets forth the agreement to be negotiated with Precourt Sports Venture LLC for construction of a major league soccer stadium to be built in Austin. The term sheet was modified in some places and those changes are noted in the MLS Stadium Proposed Amendments to Term Sheet, August 10, 2018.

This 176-page PDF is a copy of the City of Austin’s response to the Original Emergency Petition for a Writ of Mandamus filed August 13, 2018, which challenged the council-approved ballot language that voters will see on the November 6, 2018, ballot concerning the efficiency audit petition ordinance.

This 89-page PDF is a copy of the City of Austin’s legal rationale for the court to justify refusing to issue a writ of mandamus for putting the CodeNEXT petition on the November 6, 2018 ballot.

This 12-page PDF is a copy of City Attorney Anne Morgan's letter of November 17, 2018, by which she hired the outside law firm of Bickerstaff Heath Delgado Acosta LLP for an amount not to exceed $58,000. The firm’s scpe of work was to determine the “Legal Status of CodeNEXT Initiative Petition.” The letter authorized the firm to use the services of four attorneys whose hourly rates range from $195 to $465 per hour and two paralegals whose hourly rate is $180 per hour. The letter states that “The City expects that work on city matters will be done at hourly rates that are at a substantial discount from the firm’s general billing rates.”

This 1-page PDF is a copy of the mail City Attorney Anne Morgan sent to attorney Bill Aleshire that abates the library policies barring IndyAustin petitioners to gather signatures at city libraries and rescinds the trespass notices issued to petitioners Scott Royder and Lucas Burdick.

This 2-page PDF is a copy of the memo prepared at the request City Council members to provide options for the ballot language that the Council might consider when it votes to put the CodeNEXT and Efficiency Audit before voters on November 6, 2018.

This 17-page PDF is a copy of the letter attorney Bill Aleshire sent to the City regarding the Criminal Trespass Notice issued to IndyAustin petitioner Lucas Burdick, when he was gathering signatures at the Central Library. The PDF contains all the exhibits including a photo of Burdick's location when cited, the Criminal Trespass Notice he was issued, an email from library staff member Sharon Herfurth that set forth policies the libraries were enforcing against petitioners, and other related records.

This 2-page PDF is a copy of the Austin Efficiency Audit Petition already being circulated for signatures by paid petitioners, with the goal of finishing the petition drive in time to put it on the November 6, 2018, ballot.

This 4-page PDF is a copy of attorney Bill Aleshire’s letter that warned City of Austin officials that restricting the rights to peacefully gather signatures outside city libraries would violate both the City Charter and Texas Constitution.

This 2-page PDF is a copy of the initiative petition and ordinance for which IndyAustin launched a petition drive September 27, 2018.

This 4-page PDF is a copy of the proposed Financial Policies that the Travis County Commissioners Court discussed at its September 19, 2017, meeting. No decisions were made but the policies, or an unpdated version of them, were scheduled to be considered October 3, 2017.

This 2-page PDF is a copy of an email that shows (at bottom) The Austin Bulldog's request for copies of letters sent to two members of Central Health's Board of Managers and the response (at top) of Ted Burton, vice president of communications for Central Health, at 3:32pm September 20, 2018.

This 2-page PDF is a copy of an email that shows (at bottom) The Austin Bulldog's request for copies of letters sent to two members of Central Health's Board of Managers and the response (at top) of Ted Burton, vice president of communications for Central Health, at 1:57pm September 20, 2018.

This 2-page PDF is a copy of the resume of Rosie Mendoza.

This 1-page PDF instructions inform Central Health personnel of new policy governing how the agency would address requests to fund community events effective October 27, 2017.

This 33-page PDF is a copy of the Request for Qualifications 1704-001 issued April 6, 2017, for a Performance Review of Central Health.

This 52-page PDF is a copy of the Request for Proposals by which Travis County sought competitive bids from parties that wanted to enter a 99-year lease for the downtown block owned by the county at 308 Guadalupe St.

This 7-page PDF is a copy of the Plaintiff's Original Petition in Birch et al v. Travis County Healthcare District, dba Central Health, and President & CEO Mike Geeslin, in his official capacity only. The petition was electronically filed with the Travis County  District Clerk's Office at 8:45am Wednesday October 18, 2017.

This 2-page PDF is a copy of the letter addressed to County Judge Sarah Eckhardt expressing concern over proposals that would have required greater accountability for the $35 million a year that the University of Texas receives for the Dell Medical School.

This 2-page PDF is a copy of the letter addressed to County Judge Sarah Eckhardt expressing concern over proposals that would have required greater accountability for the $35 million a year that the University of Texas receives for the Dell Medical School.

This 1-page PDF is a copy of the motion passed by Central Health's Board of Managers Saturday September 22, 2018.

This 6-page PDF is a copy of the memo that Mike Geeslin, president and CEO of Central Health, sent to Travis County Judge Sarah Eckhardt concerning the proposed financial policies that the Commissioners Court might impose upon Central Health September 19, 2017.

This 7-page PDF is a copy of the letter written by Central Health's president and CEO, Mike Geeslin, and addressed to the Central Health Board of Managers in response to the Performance Assessment prepared by Germane Solutions under a $315,000 contract.

This 91-page PDF is a copy of the 99-year ground lease that Central Health will execute with The 2033 LP for use of land on two blocks of the Downtown Campus.

This 50-page PDF is a copy of the 99-year lease executed by Travis County for its downtown block at 308 Guadalupe St. Travis County required competitive bids for the property before the lease was approved.

This 50-page PDF is a copy of the 99-year lease executed by Travis County for its downtown block at 308 Guadalupe St. Travis County required competitive bids for the property before the lease was approved.

This 17-page PDF is a copy of the professional services agreement under which Central Health hired Germane Solutions to perform an independent Performance Review of the agency. The agreement calls for payment of $315,000. On May 24, 2017, the Board of Managers of Central Health voted 5-0 with three members absent to approve the agreement in an amount not to exceed $350,000.

This 4-page PDF is a copy of the memo that attorney Fred Lewis submitted to the Travis County Commissioners Court. It is a direct response to the arguments made by Mike Geeslin, president and CEO of Central Health, and submitted the previous day. The yellow highlights in the file were inserted by Lewis to emphasize key points in his rebuttal.

This 2-page PDF is a copy of fliers used to announce two public meetings (in English on August 8, 2017, and in Spanish on August 9, 2017) to solicit feedback about the performance of Central Health.

This 2-page PDF is a copy of the email to Blanca Lesmes, co-founder of BB Imaging and Healthcare Consulting, and officials of prime contractor Germane Solutions and Central Health, to reiterate that The Austin Bulldog could not verify that BB Imaging is a certified Historically Underutilized Business, and ask for proof of certification.

This 4-page PDF is a copy of Version 2 of the financial policies that the Travis County Commissioners Court is scheduled to vote on October 10, 2017.

This 4-page PDF is a copy of Version 1 of the financial policies that the Travis County Commissioners Court is schduled to vote on October 10, 2017.

This 31-page PDF is a copy of the slide show used to guide what Central Health called a “Community Conversation” at its July 31, 2018 meeting. The attendees were predominantly either representatives of healthcare service providers or community healthcare advocacy organizations. Attendees were asked 11 questions over the course of the two-hour meeting and their answers transmitted with electronic devices were instantly tallied and displayed. The Austin Bulldog copied the results displayed in the room and annotated this PDF (starting on page 7) to indicate how the questions were answered.

This 2-page PDF is a copy of the detailed plan to review the communications practices of Central Health and gather feedback from the community about the agency. This is one of six parts of the independent Performance Review of Central Health  being performed by Germane Solutions.

This 3-page PDF is a copy of Clarke Heidrick's resume downloaded from his current law firm's website.

This 1-page PDF is a copy of the Proposed FY 2019 and FY 2020 strategies adopted by the agency's board of managers July 25, 2018. The strategy lays out three strategies, sets subgoals within each of those objectives, and establishes milestones to get updates on progress.

This 1-page PDF is a copy of the Statement released by Central Health in response to the lawsuit, Birch et al v. Travis County Healthcare District.

This 42-page PDF is a copy of the Performance Assessment of Central Health prepared by Germane Solutions under a $315,000 contract.

This 1-page PDF is a copy of the diagram that shows the location of Blocks 164 and 167, shaded in blue, that will be subject to The 2033 LP lease

This 7-page PDF is a copy of Central Health's Community Update newsletter that was emailed to subscribers July 31, 2017. An item on Page 6 announced the public input meetings that would be held August 8 and 9, 2017, to solicit public feedback about the agency’s performance.

This 54-page PDF is a copy of the Master Plan for the 14.3 acre site that was formerly home to the University Medical Center Brackenridge. The vision calls for building “a new mixed-use community within Austin’s downtown, where people can live, work, learn, and play.” That vision was effectively undermined, if not destroyed, when Central Health parted ways with the “preferred master developer” it had selected and instead executed The 2033 LP lease of two blocks of the campus. Those two blocks have been subleased to the University of Texas “for future programmed campus expansion and sublease of space to third parties.”

This 1-page PDF is a diagram of Central Health’s Downtown Campus with areas subject to The 2033 LP lease shown in yellow. More importantly this diagram shows the location of other areas of the campus with leased property, including the parking garage on the northwest corner, the Clinical Education Center and associated parking garage on the eastern side of the campus.

This 1-page PDF is a copy of the Initial Revenue Summary that shows the anticipated revenue to be derived from The 2033 LP Ground Lease, both initially and over the term of the 99-year lease. The total lease revenue is expressed as a Net Present Value and not the actual total income of approximately $450 million.

This 6-page PDF is a copy of Opinion DM-37 issued by Attorney General Dan Morales stated neither the Texas Constitution nor the statute that enabled the establishment of hospital districts (aka health care districts) defined what health care services must be provided for indigents, in other words, for poor people.

This 6-page PDF is a copy of the report prepared by an Austin-based CPA firm, Atchley & Associates, after performing agreed-upon procedures. The report was presented to the Central Health Board of Managers August 30, 2017.

This 56-page PDF is a copy of a demographic report that pinpoints the location of low- and moderate-income families in Travis County, the location of healthcare facilities, and drills down to identify the places where residents suffer from specific health problems, including behavioral health, lung disease, diabetes, heart failure, hypertension, cancerous tumors, and kidney failure.

This 20-page PDF contains the public information request that Dolcefino Consulting filed with the City of Austin December 16, 2016, and all subsequent communications about the request, including Dolcefino's complaint filed with the Texas Attorney General's Office February 9, 2017, regarding the cost estimate of nearly $133,000 provided by the City.

This 3-page PDF is a copy of the City of Austin's letter of April 13, 2017, in response to the Attorney General's letter of March 27, 2017, concerning the cost-overcharge complaint filed by Wayne Dolcefino of Dolcefino Consulting when he got a cost estimate of $133,000 to provide information he had asked for in a public information request.

This 5-page PDF contains the response of Daniela Ochoa-Gonzalez to a City Auditor’s investigation that found her guilty of a conflict of interest. That flawed investigation was discredited by the Austin City Council, which voted to approve a Resolution that included a formal apology to Ochoa-Gonzalez.

This 76-page PDF contains City of Austin Personnel Policies.

This 7-page PDF contains City of Austin Administrative Bulletin 98-06 issued November 27, 2007, to govern use of the Internet by City employees.

This 7-page PDF contains City of Austin Administrative Bulletin 06-03 issued August 20, 2007, to govern the reporting, investigation, and prevention of fraud, waste and abuse by city employees.

This 22-page PDF contains the findings of the Austin City Auditor in the investigation of Eric Leal Gomez, supervisor of environmental compliance in the Development Services Department and the written response filed by Gomez. This final report, issued in October 2015, included findings of alleged misuse of city position, misuse of city resources, and entering into a business relationship with a subordinate.

This 4-page PDF contains a report of the City Auditor’s findings, stated in a report dated April 18, 2014, that Daniela Ochoa-Gonzalez, a member of the City of Austin’s Zero Waste Advisory Commission, had violated the City Code regarding conflict of interest.

This report was later repudiated by the Austin City Council, which issued a formal apology to Ochoa-Gonzalez through a resolution, which also required that a bold-print notice be placed at the top of the report stating: “This Report has not been accepted by the Austin City Council and is subject to Resolution No. 20141016-024, passed October 16, 2014.

This 1-page PDF is a copy of a slide shown at the 2017 Conference of the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas during a panel discussion titled, "What happened in the 2017 Legislature? What's ahead?" The slide was prepared by attorney Laura Prather of HaynesBoone Austin, and actually represents just a portion of the powerful interests arrayed against efforts to provide better public access to information held by govenrmental agencies.

This 1-page PDF is a copy of the slide titled TPIA Task Force shown at the 2017 Conference of the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas during a panel discussion titled, "What happened in the 2017 Legislature? What's ahead?" The slide, prepared by attorney Laura Prather of HaynesBoone Austin, lists the various interests that were represented during nine months of meetings designed to build consensus for passage of 10 bills in the 2017 legislative session. Ultimately only three of the 10 bills were enacted.