Fellow concerned citizens - 

I am sorry for the delay in updating you.

Last Wednesday, I attended the City Council meeting to testify against the Homeless Camping ordinance on your behalf. I was able to speak for three minutes. You can watch my testimony here. You can read my testimony to the City Council here. There were over 100 speakers and most of them opposed the ordinance.

I believe this feedback helped change the minds of the city council.

As Wednesday's meeting began, the council was likely to pass changes to the ordinance to ban homeless camping on six streets in Austin.

On Friday morning, after receiving overwhelmingly negative feedback, they tabled the effort to make changes.

The Austin American-Statesman story on the council meeting debacle is here. 

The council is planning to work on the homeless camping ban the week of Oct. 10 with a planned vote on Oct. 17.

So we have a few more weeks to keep the pressure up.

We are nearing 34,000 signatures on our online petition to repeal the Homeless Camping Ordinance. Please share SaveAustinNowPetition.com on your social networks, especially Facebook and NextDoor.

We still intend to launch an effort to put a repeal of the Homeless Camping Ordinance on the ballot in May 2020. This effort will begin in mid-October and we are finalizing the creation of our 501(c)3 nonprofit now.

In the meantime, we need to increase the pressure on the Mayor and the City Council.

TAKE ACTION:

1. Will you email your Council Member right now? Click here to do so.

2. Will you email the Mayor right now? Click here to do so.

3. If you wish to financially support us, please do so here. (You do not need to have a paypal account to contribute.)

We will keep you updated!

 

Thanks,

Matt Mackowiak

Save Austin Now, co-founder

(Email: matt.mackowiak@gmail.com)