City Council is deep in the weeds of budget deliberations as we go to press Wed­nes­day, Aug. 17, in the first of a potential three meetings they may need to discuss the fiscal year 2023 budget before voting on it. The first half of Day One included hearing once more from public speakers on their budget priorities. Many spoke in favor of boosting base pay for city workers to $20 per hour and against a resolution that could result in Austin police resuming use of controversial automatic license plate reading software (the latter was postponed to Council's Sept.

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