Prop A Funding Battle Dominates ‘Ballot Breakdown’ KXAN Town Hall

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Over the course of an hour on Wednesday, KXAN delved into eight proposed state constitutional amendments and two Austin proposals all through a special virtual town hall. Prop A, as you would possibly want anticipated, dominated the dialog.

If handed by voters, Prop A would add a complete lot of officers to the APD drive, nevertheless opponents concern its potential ticket (as a lot as $598.9 million over 5 years) would possibly end in cuts in several important suppliers, along with the fireside service. .

Speaking at Metropolis Hall, Mackenzie Kelly, a member of the Austin Metropolis Council, talked about the idea the Metropolis would scale back any funding for public safety was “absurd.”

“We see an enormous amount, tens of hundreds of thousands of {{dollars}}, going to homelessness domestically. We see it (going) to social suppliers and points like that that really don’t must be funded by the municipal authorities,” Kelly talked about. “We’d depend upon our authorities companions to fund these devices.”

Nevertheless Mayor Steve Adler talked about public safety already makes up 70% of the city’s value vary. Adler talked about the value of Prop A ought to return, a minimal of partly, from that public safety pot.

Adler well-known, “Nevertheless since chances are you’ll’t scale back it off from the police, which means if Prop A passes, it have to be scale back off from ambulance or fireplace.”