City CouncilThursday, May 21, 2026 · 10:00 AM · Austin City Hall

#1Approves the minutes from the Austin City Council work session of April 21, 2026, and regular meeting of April 23, 2026.

#2Authorizes an agreement with artist Jessica Bell to create public artwork for the St. John Site Redevelopment Art in Public Places Project.

#3Amends a prior resolution to transfer the Texas Enterprise Project nomination from Spansion LLC to Spansion Fab 25 LLC.

#4Authorize a battery storage agreement with OCI Energy for up to 100 MW of capacity from a utility-scale battery facility for up to 20 years.

#5Authorize up to two power purchase agreements with Invenergy Renewables for electricity generated by up to two utility-scale wind facilities totaling approximately 299 MW of capacity.

#6Authorizes the City Manager to seek a development permit for a new electric transmission line connecting to the Timber Creek substation and to pay related permitting fees.

#7Approves implementation of local natural gas-powered peaker generation units under Austin Energy’s Resource, Generation and Climate Protection Plan to 2035.

#8Authorizes an interlocal agreement establishing automatic-aid emergency medical services among Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services and neighboring jurisdictions and emergency services districts.

#9Authorizes applying for and accepting Fiscal Year 2026 Homeland Security Grant Program funds under the State Homeland Security Program for multiple public safety projects.

#10Authorizes applying for and accepting Fiscal Year 2026 Homeland Security Grant Program funds under the Urban Area Security Initiative for multiple public safety projects.

#11Authorizes up to $1 billion in Water and Wastewater System Revenue Bonds and a direct loan agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for the Walnut Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant Expansion and Enhancements Project.

#12Approves the second reading of an ordinance granting Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative a non-exclusive electric utility franchise within its certificated area.

#13Sets the calendar year 2027 assessment rate and approves the 2027 assessment roll for the Austin Downtown Public Improvement District.

#14Approves an ordinance setting the 2027 assessment rate and assessment roll for the East Sixth Street Public Improvement District.

#15Approves an ordinance setting the assessment rate and proposed 2027 assessment roll for the South Congress Preservation and Improvement District.

#16Approves issuance and sale of Special Tax Revenue Bonds for the Convention Center expansion project and rescinds a prior related ordinance.

#17Authorizes construction services for the Oltorf at Travis Heights Pressure Zone Conversion Project, including contingency funding, for Austin Water.

#18Authorizes change order five for the Hyde Park Water and Wastewater Pipeline Renewal Project construction contract. The change order adds $831,153, bringing the contract ceiling to $9,392,249.

#19Authorizes a contract for Austin Energy air-compressor maintenance and repair services, with an initial one-year term and up to four one-year extensions. The contract amount may not exceed $1,578,705, subject to future budget availability.

#20Authorizes eleven contracts for critical electric utility supplies and equipment for Austin Energy, with a combined amount not to exceed $200 million over an initial two-year term and extension options.

#21Authorize a contract with Priester-Mell & Nicholson Inc. to supply air-insulated switchgears for Austin Energy. The two-year initial term, with up to three one-year extensions, would not exceed $4 million and is funded through Austin Energy's capital budget.

#22Authorizes a contract with Journal Technologies for municipal court case-management software and services, with a one-year initial term and up to four extensions.

#23Authorizes six contracts for audio/visual and television broadcast equipment, products, and related services for City departments, with a combined not-to-exceed amount of $36 million.

#24Authorize a three-year contract, with two one-year extension options, for case management software, licensing, maintenance, migration, and support for Austin Technology Services.

#25Authorizes $3.34 million in additional contingency for Posillico Civil's construction contract for the Fallwell Lane Capital Renewal project, raising the total contract limit to $27.81 million.

#26Ratifies a contract for drug and alcohol testing services for Austin Human Resources and authorizes a contract amendment.

#27Ratifies and amends contracts for unemployment claims processing and employment-verification services for Austin Human Resources.

#28Authorizes cooperative BuyBoard contracts for park and playground equipment, installation, and maintenance for Parks and Recreation and Transportation and Public Works, with a one-year initial term and up to four extensions.

#29Ratifies a contract with Collective Strategic Resources for electric system restoration services for Austin Energy.

#30Authorizes a contract with Swarco McCain, Inc. to provide advanced transportation controller cabinets for Austin Transportation and Public Works for up to five years.

#31Authorizes two rental contracts for trench safety shoring and pumping equipment for City departments, with a combined limit of $522,000.

#32Authorizes a contract with Xcessories Squared for square steel posts and sign hardware for Austin Transportation and Public Works for up to five years.

#33Authorize a three-year contract with iBridge Group, Inc. for TIBCO application integration software for Austin Energy, not to exceed $3,000,000.

#34Authorizes an interlocal agreement with the University of Texas at Austin to continue operating a communications tower, radio equipment shelter, and related improvements through November 30, 2034. The site includes land and access/utility easement areas on Montopolis Drive and has no fiscal impact.

#35Authorizes an application for and acceptance of TxDMV Authority funding to continue the Austin Police Auto Burglary and Theft Interdiction Project, with an existing City personnel-cost match.

#36Amends density bonus and incentive program requirements to strengthen tenant protections, including organizing rights, relocation support, and land-use restriction agreement provisions. It also allows certain application processing and fee waivers and establishes an offense and penalty.

#37Confirms the appointments of Sarah Ivory and Robert Gross to the Firefighters’, Police Officers’ and Emergency Medical Services Personnel’s Civil Service Commission. The item has no fiscal impact.

#38Authorizes negotiation and execution of a 45-year development agreement for a 2,614-acre mixed-use development in the area known as Dog's Head. The agreement would set development and environmental standards, address annexation and housing, and outline potential mobility-plan, TIRZ, and local government corporation actions.

#39Authorizes negotiation and execution of an interlocal agreement allowing the City to regulate, permit, and enforce development regulations over approximately 2,614 acres in the extraterritorial jurisdiction known as Dog's Head.

#40Authorizes an interlocal agreement with Austin Transit Partnership for Austin Light Rail design, pre-construction property access, utility betterments, and mitigation of parkland and transportation impacts under Project Connect.

#41Authorizes an interlocal agreement to establish and support the Austin/Travis County Family Justice Center, addressing domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, and human trafficking.

#42Amends Solid Waste Services administrative rules governing brush drop-off limits, fees for additional collection services, and bulk, brush, and household hazardous-waste collection guidelines. The item has no fiscal impact.

#43Supports Travis County’s application to the U.S. Department of Transportation for FY 2026 Safe Streets and Roads for All grant funding. The City would participate as a partner applicant for intersection safety, post-crash care, and emergency medical response improvements.

#44Authorize an interlocal agreement with Williamson County to update the ATLAS 14 Floodplain Mapping Study using updated topographic and development data in overlapping jurisdictions.

#45Adopts the Rain to River Strategic Plan to guide Watershed Protection work over the next decade, emphasizing community priorities and resilient waterways and infrastructure.

#46Authorizes a Barton Springs Zone redevelopment exception for the proposed SoLa Mixed Use development on a 4.78-acre South Lamar Boulevard and Skyway Circle tract. The applicant must pay a $535,381.23 mitigation fee.

#47Approves appointments, removals, replacements, related waivers, and bylaw amendments for boards, commissions, Council committees, intergovernmental bodies, and public facility corporations.

#48Approve an ordinance waiving or reimbursing certain fees for Austin Habitat for Humanity's Prospect Heights Home Dedication Celebration at 1140 Poquito Street on February 5, 2026.

#49Ordinance to waive or reimburse certain fees for the Students Engaged in Advancing Texas' Banquet at the Austin Central Library on June 20, 2026.

#50Ordinance establishing the Native American and Indigenous Quality of Life Commission as a City Council advisory body, including its scope and membership criteria.

#51Approves an ordinance to waive or reimburse certain fees for Sunday Sessions ATX's May Sunday Session at Waterloo Park on May 24, 2026.

#52Directs the City Manager to review central procurement and grant management and consider standardized consultant contracting, cooperative contracts, a procurement dashboard, and updated contracting procedures.

#53Waives or reimburses certain fees for Earth Day Austin's Earth Day ATX 2026 event, held at Huston-Tillotson University on May 2, 2026.

#54Public hearing and ordinance consideration for floodplain variances needed to convert an accessory structure into a dwelling unit at 1120 Denfield Street in the 100-year floodplain of Tannehill Branch Creek.

#55Public hearing and ordinance consideration to modify development review, water-quality compliance, street design, and utility infrastructure requirements for certain transit system projects and related infrastructure.

#56Public hearing on a City Code amendment creating citywide density bonus zoning districts for commercial and multifamily zones. The program would allow additional height and development flexibility in exchange for affordable housing and community benefits, replacing DB90 and VMU.

#57Public hearing on amending the East Riverside Corridor Regulating Plan to remove 1404 East Riverside Drive and revise the plan boundary.

#58Public hearing and ordinance to disannex approximately 0.107 acres at 1604 Bruton Springs Road under Texas Senate Bill 1844, adjusting the boundary between full-purpose and limited-purpose jurisdiction. The item has no fiscal impact.

#59Public hearing to receive input on the Draft Fiscal Year 2026-2027 Action Plan, which will serve as the City's application for federal housing-related funding.

#60Conducts a public hearing on annexing approximately 2,614 acres in the Dog's Head area into full-purpose jurisdiction. The action would initiate a regulating plan and mobility-plan amendment and authorize a service plan agreement with the landowner.

#61Public hearing and ordinance to rezone 8901 East U.S. 290 Highway Service Road Eastbound from GR-CO and LI-CO to LI zoning, consistent with staff and commission recommendations.

#62Public hearing and ordinance to rezone part of 907 East 13th Street for historic landmark designation as the Goins-Versea-Nitschke House. The Historic Landmark Commission seeks the rezoning despite opposition from the property owner.

#63Public hearing and ordinance to amend the Greater South River City Combined Neighborhood Plan future land use map for 1404 East Riverside Drive from Specific Regulating District to Multifamily Residential. Staff recommends approval; Planning Commission review is scheduled for May 12, 2026.

#64Public hearing and rezoning ordinance for 1404 East Riverside Drive to change zoning from East Riverside Corridor Corridor Mixed Use to planned unit development-neighborhood plan zoning. The ordinance may include fee waivers, alternative funding, regulatory modifications, and property acquisition.

#65Public hearing and proposed amendment to the Greater South River City Combined Neighborhood Plan to change designated land use from Civic to Multifamily Residential for the Rowen Vale properties.

#66Public hearing on rezoning the Rowen Vale site from SF-3-NP family residence zoning to MF-3-NP medium-density multifamily zoning.

#67Public hearing and ordinance to rezone 55 North IH 35 Service Road North Bound. The request would apply CS-MU-CO-NP zoning to Tract 1 while retaining LO-MU-CO-NP zoning on Tract 2, consistent with staff and Planning Commission recommendations.

#68Conducts a public hearing and considers changing conditions of existing CS-MU-CO-NP zoning for the Springdale Farm Follow-Up properties. Staff and the Planning Commission recommend approval.

#69Public hearing and ordinance to rezone part of 4503 East Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard from GR-NP community commercial-neighborhood plan zoning to CS-1-NP commercial-liquor sales-neighborhood plan zoning for the Family Affair Liquor Store. Staff and Planning Commission recommend approval.

#70Public hearing and rezoning of properties at 1120, 1120 1/2, 1122, and 1220 South Capital of Texas Highway Southbound from LO and LR to LO-V-DB90 zoning.

#71Public hearing and ordinance to amend the North Shoal Creek Neighborhood Plan future land use map for 8701 North Mopac. The change would redesignate the site from Commerce to Mixed-Use Activity HUB/Corridor land use.

#72Public hearing and rezoning of 8701 North Mopac Expressway Service Road Northbound from CS zoning to LI-PDA zoning.

#73Conduct a public hearing and consider rezoning 1811 East Cesar Chavez Street from CS-MU-CO-NP to CS-1-CO-NP zoning to allow commercial liquor sales. Staff recommends denial, while the Planning Commission recommends approval; a valid opposition petition was filed.

#74Approves second and third readings of an ordinance amending the Circuit of the Americas PUD zoning conditions for property at 9201 Circuit of the Americas Boulevard. The ordinance may provide fee waivers, alternative funding methods, regulatory modifications, and property acquisition authority.

#75Conduct a public hearing and consider rezoning part of 500 East FM 1626 Road from CS-MU-CO to CS-1 zoning. Staff and the Zoning and Platting Commission recommend CS-1-CO zoning, with the commission's recommendation amended.

#76Public hearing and ordinance to rezone 2117 West 49th Street and 4709 Rosedale Avenue from SF-3 family residence to MF-6-CO multifamily residence highest density with conditional overlay. Staff and the Zoning and Platting Commission recommend approval.

#77Approve a settlement in Javier Ambler's federal civil action against the City of Austin and Officer Nissen, funded through the Fiscal Year 2025-2026 Liability Reserve Fund.

#78Authorizes a contract amendment with Veritext Texas for continued court reporting services supporting City Attorney's Office proceedings. The amendment adds $240,000, bringing the contract maximum to $620,000.

#79Amend the Transportation and Public Works Capital Budget to accept and appropriate Austin Transit Partnership funds for Austin Light Rail parkland mitigation and transportation-system improvement design.

#80Initiate a stakeholder process and amend density-bonus incentive requirements for residential and non-residential redevelopment. The resolution also directs exploration of stronger tenant and business protections in voluntary incentive programs and a report back to Council.

#81Executive-session consultation with legal counsel regarding legal issues related to the Austin Convention Center.

#82Executive-session discussion of competitively sensitive Austin Energy generation operations and resources, along with potential real-estate transactions.