🌱 Abbott Reviewing APD Budget + Drought Impacting Farmers + NW Fire

Good morning, neighbors. It is Monday in Austin and I am again in your inbox to get you caught up on all crucial issues taking place in our group at this time.

Seize your espresso whereas we dive into:

• Abbott says he’ll ‘look into’ Austin’s police funds.
  
• Ongoing drought circumstances hurting Central Texas farms.
  
• 4 residents have been displaced and a couple of pets killed in northwest Austin fireplace.
  
• And extra ➡️

First, at this time’s climate and allergy report:

☀️ Excessive: 112 Low: 79. Principally sunny and scorching, scorching, HOT.

🍃 Grass Pollen: Low. Ragweed: Reasonable. Mould: Low. Mud & Dander: Excessive.

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Listed below are the Prime 4 tales at this time in Austin:

1) Abbott says he’ll ‘look into’ Austin’s police funds. Texas Governor Greg Abbott posted a tweet Saturday night stating that he’ll “look into” the funding of Austin Police Division to see if it violates a 2021 regulation, which penalizes Texas cities if they’re discovered to have lowered their regulation enforcement funds. Take a look at the total story right here at KXAN.

2) Ongoing drought circumstances hurting Central Texas farms. The present drought circumstances are drying up some our bodies of water and in addition killing crops. In accordance with the U.S. Division of Agriculture, Texas at present has the worst corn circumstances within the nation. Central Texas farmers have issues over lowered crop yields and lowered crop high quality. KVUE has extra on this story right here.

3) 4 residents have been displaced and a couple of pets killed in northwest Austin fireplace. An unintended fireplace at a northwest Austin dwelling has displaced 4 residents and killed two pets, the Austin Hearth Division confirmed Sunday morning. The fireplace amounted to $100,000 in structural harm and $100,000’s price of injury to the house’s contents. Fox 7 Austin has extra on this story right here.

4) Lengthy waitlists trigger households to scramble to seek out little one care. Success By 6, a coalition of early childhood advocates and a part of the United Means for Larger Austin surveyed little one care suppliers in Travis County throughout the spring and located 89 p.c had problem hiring within the earlier six months.

Cathy McHorse, vice chairman of Success By 6 at United Means for Larger Austin, says: “A lot of the problem with the shortage of entry to reasonably priced little one care is correct now, like in lots of different industries, our little one care sector is experiencing a staffing disaster of… hate to say it, however unprecedented proportions. It is much more exacerbated with packages that settle for childcare subsidies. And that is the state subsidy that helps households with low revenue in accessing reasonably priced childcare.” Staffing shortages, low wages, and pandemic closures have all contributed to this little one care scarcity. Take a look at the total story right here at KXAN.

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