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Tuesday, October 14, 2025 Audit and Finance Committee Special Called Meeting
  • Austin's Audit and Finance Committee held a special meeting to address a single key item.
  • The primary discussion focused on personnel matters concerning the appointment of a new City Auditor.
  • This sensitive topic was deliberated during a private executive session, as allowed for personnel issues.
  • No public action or decision regarding the auditor appointment was announced when the meeting concluded.

Full Transcript

Audit and Finance Committee (AFC) Special Called Meeting Transcript – 10/14/2025 Title: ATXN-1 (24hr) Channel: 1 - ATXN-1 Recorded On: 10/14/2025 6:00:00AM Original Air Date: 10/14/2025 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. [1:00:36 PM] second street in Austin, Texas, and we have a quorum of the committee present the item that we don't have anybody signed up to speak. Right? >> No, we do not. >> All right. Very good. So the item that we have is an executive session item. We are in the process of appointing a new city auditor. And so we're in the process of doing that so that we have personnel matters. And so we will go into an executive session to discuss personnel, personnel issues related to the appointment of a new city auditor pursuant to section 551074 of the Texas government code, which addresses personnel matters. Without objection, we will go into that executive session and there's no objection. So we'll go into executive session at 1:00. At 1:01 P.M. We're going to have to sync these clocks. I'm going to consider that to be the official clock for right now, for anybody paying attention to this. When we finish the executive session, we will have no other business, and I will come back in and adjourn the audit and finance committee. Thank you all. Good [3:06:14 PM] Good afternoon. It is 3:06 P.M. On Tuesday, October 14th. The audit and finance committee of the Austin city council has been meeting in executive session to discuss one item. That's item number one, personnel issues related to the appointment of a new city auditor. Those are personnel matters that allowed us to go into executive session pursuant to section 551074 of the Texas government code. There's no further business to come before the committee of the audit and finance committee of the Austin city council. So, without objection, the audit and finance committee is adjourned from this special called meeting at 3:06 P.M. Thanks, everybody.