Austin Hires City Lobbyist for $40K
- Austin city leaders held a special meeting to make a key personnel decision.
- They met privately to discuss and interview candidates for a City lobbyist position.
- Following the closed session, the council publicly voted to hire Dick Brown as the City of Austin's new lobbyist.
- Brown's approved annual salary for this role was set at $40,000.
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YOF AUST POUNDED 2839 Austin City Council MINUTES For SPECIAL CALLED MEETING - August 07, 1984 - 4:00 Ρ.Μ. City Council Frank C.Cooksey Mayor John Treviño, Jr. Mayor Pro Tem Council Members Mark Rose Smoot Carl-Mitchell Sally Shipman George Humphrey Charles E. Urdy Jorge Carrasco City Manager Elden Aldridge City Clerk Council Chambers, 307 West Second Street, Austin, Texas Memorandum To: Mayor Mullen called to order the special called meeting of the Council, noting the absence of Councilmember Duncan. The Mayor announced the Council would convene in closed or executive session authorized by Article 6252-17, Texas Revised Civil Statutes Annotated, to discuss the following: 1. Personnel Matters - Interview candidates for City lobbyist. Section 2, Paragraphg. And after such closed or executive session, any action to be taken shall be done in open meeting. RECESS Council recessed at 5:00p.m. for executive session and resumed its recessed meeting at 5:34 p.m. LOBBYIST CHOSEN The Council, on Mayor Pro Tem Trevino's motion, Councilmember Spaeth's second, approved the hiring of Dick Brown with a salary of $40,000 a year as lobbyist for the City of Austin. (6-0 Vote, Councilmember Duncan absent.) ADJOURNMENT Council adjourned its meeting at 5:45 p.m.