AUSTIN, Texas — The City of Austin is planning to reduce and reallocate more than $5 million from its social services contract budget, Austin City Manager T.C Broadnax wrote in a memo to Mayor Kirk Watson and the city council last week.
In November, the Austin City Council approved an amended budget for the 2025-2026 fiscal year. The city revised its budget after voters rejected Proposition Q, which would have permanently increased Austin’s property tax rate and generated about $110 million a year.
Changes from the original budget included more than $38 million in cuts to social services, $6 million from EMS, $5 million from parks and at least $1 million each from public health and fire departments…