Keeping in mind I am writing this only minutes or (days) before the outcome will be released based on the amount of political jockeying or debate. The article or issue I am referring to is the Austin City Council's vote on the new budget. The proposed budget for 2011-2012 is 2.8 billion (not million, billion for the city of Austin), I for one would not have seen that, but again I live in Round Rock. A couple of things of note, the average Austinite would pay $267 more in taxes and utility bills and if you are an ex-offender of any sort you may qualify for city funded job training. Yep, you read it correctly, you could possibly pay more in taxes to help fund a program to give ex-offenders job training! Heck, let me go commit a crime today so I can qualify for that program. Seriously, you can read the article for yourself and I may have over-embellished a tad bit but; how about fining more people (I don't know how many have been fined in Austin, but in Round Rock less than 100 fines have been issued by RRPD) who are watering their lawns on non-designated days as a way to increase the city's revenue without over taxing yet again. Come on, $6 to each person's water bill for water conservation, when I already obey the water conservation regulations!
http://www.statesman.com/news/local/as-austin-city-council-prepares-to-vote-on-1844086.html
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