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BG Reads Update: City Council passes Austin police contract in 10-1 vote (KXAN)
🗞️ BG Reads Update (10.24.2024): City Council passes Austin police contract in 10-1 vote (KXAN)
BG Reads Update
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The Austin City Council has voted in favor of adopting the Austin police contract.
Council Member Zo Qadri is the only member who voted against the contract.
Now that city council has passed it, the Austin Police Association will take its official vote to ratify it.
As of Thursday morning, roughly 300 people had signed up online to speak in person about the police contract ahead of City Council’s vote on the measure.
Additionally, about 100 have signed up online to speak remotely. Public comment began around 11:15 a.m. is still underway.
Each speaker gets three minutes, running the in-person total, in theory, north of 13 hours, and an additional 5 hours for remote speakers. These are rough estimates as there are occasions where both in-person and remote speakers either wind up not speaking or don’t speak for their full 3 minutes.
This does not include people who signed up in-person at City Hall, and city staff said, as of Wednesday evening, those figures bring the potential public comment time up to about 26 hours.
Council chambers reached capacity Thursday morning.
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