Io Conway Appointed to ATX Service Panel
- The Audit and Finance Committee's special meeting focused solely on appointing a new member to the Municipal Civil Service Commission.
- Members held a closed executive session to discuss the personnel appointment before making a public decision.
- Io Conway was unanimously recommended for appointment to the Municipal Civil Service Commission.
Full Transcript
Audit and Finance Committee (AFC) Special Called Meeting Transcript – 3/4/2025
Title: ATXN-1 (24hr) Channel: 1 - ATXN-1 Recorded On: 3/4/2025 6:00:00AM Original Air Date: 3/4/2025 Transcript Generated by SnapStream ==================================
Please note that the following transcript is for reference purposes and does not constitute the official record of actions taken during the meeting. For the official record of actions of the meeting, please refer to the Approved Minutes.
[4:00:39 PM] You're watching a-t-x-n the City of Austin S Government Access Channel in the Austin city hall at 301 west second street, and we have a quorum of the. The committee present. I'll turn first and ask if there's anyone that has signed up to speak on general public communication. No one has signed up to speak on general public communications. So we will. We have a short agenda. It is to discuss and make possible and take possible action regarding recommendation for appointment of member, a member or members to the municipal service civil service commission. But before we discuss that, we will, without objection, go into a closed session session of the committee
[4:01:40 PM]
session session of the committee under the open meetings act, section 551071 of the Texas government code to receive advice from legal counsel on this item. Item number one. No, actually I apologize. We will not be doing that pursuant to 551071 of the government code, which is legal advice. We will instead be going into closed session an executive session to discuss the potential appointment recommendations and appointment of members to the municipal civil service commission as a personnel matter under section 551074 of the Texas government code. So 55107 for the Texas government code. Without objection, we will go into executive session. It is 401. When the executive session is complete, we will come out. We may take action, but we may return and adjourn for later action. Thank you. >> Testing, testing. Can y'all
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>> Testing, testing. Can y'all hear me? >> Yes, sir. It's 421 on Tuesday, March 4th, 2025. The audit and finance committee members, all of them, participated in a closed executive session to discuss recommendations for appointment of members to the municipal civil service commission pursuant to section 551074 of the Texas government code related to personnel matters. We are now back out into open session and we will take up agenda item number one, which is discussion and possible action regarding a recommendation for that appointment. The chair is will recognize council member Ryan alter. >> Thank you very much. I move that we recommend io Conway to be the next or to be appointed
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be the next or to be appointed to the mix board. >> The motion is made by council member alter to recommend make a recommendation to the full council. Is there a second second by council member duchen discussion with regard to the item? Without objection, the item is adopted. And for the record, we have council member vela and the mayor pro tem Fuentes joining us virtually, and they are on the camera. There being no further business to come before the audit and finance committee. Without objection, we will be adjourned at this special called meeting at 4:22 P.M. Thanks, everybody