{"id":355854,"date":"2026-06-30T15:32:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T15:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/355854\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T15:32:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T15:32:55","slug":"poll-what-should-austin-prioritize-most-in-its-next-city-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/355854\/","title":{"rendered":"POLL: What should Austin prioritize most in its next city budget?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Today is your last chance to weigh in on the city of Austin&#8217;s budget. The city is facing a $26 million budget shortfall. One proposal could cut nearly $17 million from social service contracts. City officials put into perspective about the type of reductions needed to close the gap. This could include cutting roughly 240 positions across Austin Police, Fire, and EMS, major reductions to Austin Public Health, closing nearly all 17 community rec centers and closing all 20 Austin Public Library Branch locations. A final budget vote is expected in August. <\/p>\n<p>You can weigh in on the budget at <a href=\"https:\/\/publicinput.com\/budgetfy2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What should Austin prioritize most in its next city budget? ANSWER BELOW and see the results <a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/watch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LIVE<\/a> on CBS Austin This Morning from 4:30 a.m. to 7 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Today is your last chance to weigh in on the city of Austin&#8217;s budget. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-355854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}