Top Five Most Ridiculous Items On This Week's Austin City Council Meeting Agenda (Thursday, December 10th)
Austin City Council will have their final meeting of the calendar year 2020 this Thursday, December 10th. The next Austin City Council meeting isn't until January 27, 2021, so these corrupt crooks made sure to shove a TON of sketchy, fraudulent and downright preposterous items on this week's agenda.
Top Five Most Ridiculous Items On This Week's
Austin City Council Meeting Agenda
#1
ITEM 27: Health & Wellness Support Line LINK Alliance Work Partners gets $500,000 to provide a “COVID-19 Health and Wellness Support Line” offering short-term counseling and support to Austin workers and families whose mental health has been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. When they say “short-term counseling” hotline, we are talking REALLY short-term counseling. How short?
“Residents living in an Austin City Council District can speak with a counselor from Alliance Work Partners through a confidential 24-hour support line through December 30, 2020. Services are free and available in over 150 languages.”
This hotline costs $500,000 and it will only exist for 20 DAYS!?!
That’s right. Austin is going to pay $20,000 a day (!) from Dec. 10 to Dec. 30 for this hotline. The hotline ends on December 30, 2020!? It will only be active for 3 weeks! CRITICAL QUESTIONS:
WHY the hell are we paying half a million dollars for a short-term “Covid wellness support hotline” that will only exist for TWENTY DAYS ?!?
HOW the hell does the City of Austin plan on publicizing and advertising this short-term “Covid wellness support hotline” phone number so that people who are experiencing mental health issues know it even exists?
WHY are we making it available in 150 languages?! Half of the world’s population speaks one of TEN languages.
HOW many languages are currently spoken in Travis County? Maybe twenty (at the most)?
#2
ITEM 42: Rapid COVID 19 Housing LINK Caritas of Austin gets a check from Austin City Council for $7.5 MILLION to provide:
“Rapid rehousing services to individuals experiencing homelessness that are residing in protective lodges and/or at high risk for contracting COVID-19” for the next 21 months.”
So Austin is dropping a $7.5 million to continue expanding their Homeless Hotel Empire of a dozen hotels. The more money Austin gives to the for-profit Homeless Industrial complex, the more homelessness we will see throughout the city. According to their 2020 Form 990, they spend 42% of their revenues on salaries and benefits. How much of that $7.5 million will go to executives and employees. Check out our earlier posts on Austin's Homeless crisis:
#3
ITEM 21: LINK Austin City Council will deaccession 'Bicentennial Fountain' by Ken Fowler, located at the entrance to Auditorium Shores at Lady Bird Lake Metro Park.
Austin's 1976 Bicentennial Fountain at Auditorium Shores FROM THE AGENDA:
“Bicentennial Fountain” was donated to the city in 1976
The “Bicentennial Fountain” has rusted beyond repair.
The steel sculpture has been exposed to water for 44 years creating severe rust that has rendered this piece a public safety hazard.
The fountain pumps no longer function because Austin has been in Conservation Stage Water Restrictions for years.
If City Council votes to deaccession “Bicentennial Fountain”, it will be removed from the city’s public art collection listing.
Here’s where it gets interesting:
“The artwork will be removed from public display and the Time Capsule will be placed in storage in order to open in 2076.”
Is this storage location the same location where the city stores homeless items from the purple storage bins? Who knows. CRITICAL QUESTIONS:
We seriously can’t find a way to restore this huge fountain?
Has anyone ever heard of Rust-Oleum, a Brillo Pad, sandpaper and elbow grease? Austin Mayor “Cabo Steve” Adler has probably never held a hammer, saw or Phillips head screwdriver in his life - much less restored a rusty piece of metal. Did they ask anyone who actually has experience working with metal if it can be saved?
If the ‘Bicentennial Fountain’ is rusted beyond repair and is a public safety hazard, why the hell are we putting in a Time Capsule until 2076?
What it’s it going to look like in 56 years?
This fountain is huge. How big is this “Time Capsule”? Where it will be housed, what materials is the Time Capsule made of and how much does the Time Capsule cost?
What do you think the reaction of Austin will be on July 4, 2076, when they are celebrating America’s Tricentennial and excitedly open the capsule to see what gift they received from 2020 Austin?
Do you think they will be excited to receive a rusted, public health hazard?
What are they supposed to do? Stare at it for a few minutes and figure out how to dispose of it?
ITEM 21 is an INSULT to both the current AND future citizens of Austin. It’s an INSULT to current American citizens living in Austin that it’s simply not with the effort to restore a public art piece that celebrates America’s Bicentennial. I guarantee if there was a rusty statue of Karl Marx, Fidel Castro or Joseph Stalin somewhere in Austin, the radical 10+1 Austin City Council cartel would drop six figures to restore it. It’s an INSULT to the future American and Austin citizens who haven’t been born yet. We are basically asking them to get tetanus shots before they dispose of our rusty metal garbage from 2020. This isn’t a gift. It’s a middle finger to everyone who has lived here since 1976. The only reason to put this rusty public health hazard in a Time Capsule until 2076 is so the future citizens of Austin can truly understand how tone-deaf, selfish and stupid Austin elected officials were in 2020.
#4
ITEM 44: LINK A company called Affordable Funeral Supply, LLC gets a check for $337,945 to provide “cemetery materials and equipment”. From their website:
“Affordable Funeral Supply is your source for high quality, affordably priced death care products.”
This company provides everything from body bags and stretchers to cremation containers, urns and caskets. Hmmmmm…. Can anyone think of a reason why Austin might need to spend $337,945 in tax dollars on affordable funeral supplies? Let me take a wild guess. KUT ran this article on November 18:
“2020 has been a particularly grim year for homeless Austinites. The 256 deaths this year is the most in recent memory… and a jarring increase compared to last year's 184.”
If there were 256 deaths back on November 18, at that rate Austin will end up with 300+ homeless deaths by the end of 2020. Based on the current trajectory of this data, Austin projects to have one homeless person dying PER DAY in 2021. That’s alot of body bags, urns and caskets! Based on the number of homeless people wielding deadly machetes in 2020, we are going to have a TON of bodies to bag, tag and bury in 2021. Better make sure you shop around for the lowest-priced option in the funeral industry!
#5
ITEM 45: LINK The Werd Company gets a check for $970,000 to provide “theater lighting, equipment, and supplies” for five years. We already wrote a huge post about ITEM 45 and the blatant hypocrisy of Austin City Council. The corporate logo of The Werd Company is an “OK hand gesture”, which Austin elected officials and their henchwomen in the Austin Democrat Activist news media insisted was a toxic symbol of hate and white supremacy. Now five weeks later, it’s perfectly okay (zing!) to give $1 million to a company that uses this toxic symbol of hate and white supremacy as their corporate logo. Lying, fraudulent, corrupt, hypocrite traitors! ALL OF THEM!
Screengrab: The Werd Company Twitter page features multiple "white power" hate symbols.