Were you this angry when a homeless person died in your city operated shelter this year? Were you this angry when fentanyl kills people on 6th street? Were you this angry when the streets of downtown are over run by zombie meth users? Were you this angry when a homeless person murdered another homeless person last year in the 5th street alley? Were you this angry when business owners are beat up by violent criminals that roam your city streets downtown? Were you this angry when your downtown library is full of criminals assaulting the public? Were you this angry when your own police officers are assaulted and injured regularly on 6th street? Were you this angry when the innocent man was stabbed to death on capital metro bus last year? Please… Quit being performative @KirkPWatson

Audit the finances of Austin and expose how an incredibly wealthy city like Austin complains they never have enough money.

Here’s your opportunity to let the “smartest” people in the room know their inept policies are failing BOTH downtown Austin and the homeless they claim to serve. The next “Issues & (rotten) Eggs” features public officials responsible for perpetuating the violent and disgusting behavior on our streets. Show up and let your voices be heard.

The non-profit audit in Austin exposed what we already knew. Wasted money. Missed results. City staff disregards and continues to fund in perpetuity. There are 17,159 non profits in Austin area. A few do good work. Most people start non profits from an altruistic perspective. Others start one from a shared experience. Few start one to truly game the system. For a few non profits, it’s a slippery slope because once the pipeline of grants and public funding rolls in, a machine is born. Grow. Hire. Manufacture data to make problems seem worse. Align politically. Turn into a company. Become so myopic that your non profit cause is the only way to solve a problem. Clamor loudly. Go after more money. Claim there’s not enough funding. Focus more on sustaining the machine than the intended results set forth in the creation of the non profit mission. CAUTION: for those seeking to start a new non profit. Please don’t. Look around and support an existing one that aligns with your desires to improve the world. Each non profit is a silo of waste with own accounting, HR, marketing, fundraising personnel. So much waste that when the “executive director” steps back, they see a company with a voracious appetite for capital and growth that is hardly recognizable to the idea and small cause initially created to assist. We promise out of 17,159, one already exists. Some need to close and others need to consolidate. Save Austin from aNoThEr nOn pRoFiT

This incredible building and patio should not be empty at the legendary Lions Muny. Colonel Brackenridge would not be pleased with the @austintexasgov and @UTAustin. Get it together and properly activate this legendary space for another 100 years!

This movie going experience in Austin, TX feels late to the economic party as consumers tighten budgets. $942 (not a typo) for a party of four to have food, drink and a movie at Alamo Drafthouse new cinema in Hyde Park.

The recently annexed portion of East Austin known as the Dogs Head is negotiating a deal called Project Toaster with a large manufacturing company. Could Amazon manufacture their Zoox “toaster” cars in Austin?

It's a wrap, at the final Austin City Council meeting of 2025, a slush fund of handouts approved by council - all on consent. • $278,000,000 approved for spending • 85 items on consent calendar • All unanimously approved • All without any audit Austin, that's your council spending your money and working for you. Sign the audit petition to be certified in 2026! saveaustinnow.com

If the same Austin voters that rejected Proposition Q knew the city council was approving $4,000,000 to give to Emancipet for animal sterilization, we are pretty sure the taxpayers would be furious. Of course, Emancipet is more than an animal service organization, it's another mouthpiece for city council's tiresome and faltering social agenda.

This is how local government grows and bloats into Austin's budget crisis. Federal government is funding $2m grant to Austin Public Health for immigrant and refugee medical screening services. APH will fund SEVEN new positions in the department based on council direction today. When funding disappears from federal government, the local government asks taxpayers to cover the deficit. Local government continues to bloat both in dollars and staff. And the cycle never ends.

Today, Austin City Council votes to transfer another $1m to their pet project HOPE homeless fund to continue rejecting the voters referendum of rejecting wasteful homeless spending. This money will be for nothing but the homeless operating companies. Under Texas House Bill 1136 in 2019, TPID funds from assessments (like Austin's 2% hotel room revenue levy) must be used exclusively for tourism-related purposes. Direct transfers to general city funds or non-tourism uses (e.g., homelessness) are prohibited to prevent misuse of the special assessment. Tourists visiting Austin often leave thinking the downtown district looks (and smells) terrible. There's a reason why office vacancy is 30% and retail vacancy is 40%. Both historic highs.

This @parksandrec parody is directed at Austin City Council and @KirkPWatson . City budget's are pretty simple. "Let's spend money on things that matter: police, fire, parks and schools." - Leslie Knope

Embarrassing: Why @atp_org does it take 13 years to build a ten mile train in Austin? That doesn’t even connect to the airport? The Empire State Building construction began March 17, 1930, and was completed May 1, 1931. 410 days. You guys are wasting our time and tax dollars.

Austin taxpayers voted for this by rejecting Prop Q: • Restoring public safety, fire, EMS budgets • Cutting bloated waste This is a good start from @VanessaForATX. Get to work council, there's so much more to cut.

Like you @elonmusk we also advocate for a greater Austin! It’s the core mission of our work. Living in a growing city is better than a dying city. Which way will Austin go: growth or die? Local policy and leadership has much impact.

Sad. Not surprising in this crime ridden area full of homeless shelters, drug dealing, assaults, vagrants wreaking havoc on local businesses and tourists. But the city or APD won't admit Austin has a violent crime problem.

Yup. Just like we warned in the “nuclear option” warning from a council memo. Thank you @AustinJustice for the work and terrific graph. Don’t be misled by social contract cuts, council is siphoning $14 million (at least, more through upcoming budget amendments) from the Budget Stabilization Fund toward pet social service projects.

When looking through Austin's 2026 Amended budget, pay close attention to the transfers from the Budget Stabilization Fund toward wasteful social contracts. Some Enron level accounting here.

🚩BREAKING: The amended budget is out and is not a reflection of the defeat of Prop Q last week. City manager has proposed cuts to FIRE, EMS, PARKS while INCREASING funding to Homeless Service Office. Other items to note: 1. No change to a bloated $25m animal services budget 2. There is another $30m in bloated social service contracts to eliminate 3. Increasing staff for Homeless service office Here are the dates to be engaged: • Friday, November 7th – City Manager releases an updated proposed budget. • Thursday, November 13th – We will post for a budget work session. • Tuesday, November 18th – We will have a budget briefing/work session as part of the already scheduled work session. • Thursday, November 20th – We will post for potential adoption of the new budget.