City approaching deadline to finalize $3.7B budget

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Wednesday is the last scheduled day for the Austin City Council to discuss and finalize their budget for 2017.
Mayor Steve Adler called a special session last week, to decide how the budget will impact future jobs and how much more you will be paying in taxes. The council is sifting through 15 pages of ideas to cut the city’s $3.7 billion budget.
The general fund is an estimated $56 million more than last year. This is one of the reasons cited for the proposed increas