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Austin Council thanks retiring City Clerk Myrna Rios, approves appointment of Erica Brady
Summary
Mayor and council honored outgoing City Clerk Myrna Rios for 23 years of service and, on the consent agenda, approved the appointment of Erica Brady as city clerk.
The Austin City Council opened its April 10 meeting by honoring City Clerk Myrna Rios, who announced she will retire at the end of April after 23 years with the city, and then approved a consent-agenda appointment naming Erica Brady as the next city clerk.
Mayor Kirk Watson led the recognition, outlining Rios’s role in managing municipal elections, boards and commissions, records and information management and the city’s hybrid meeting operations during the COVID pandemic. Watson noted the city clerk’s office has received consistent “achievement of excellence” awards from the Texas Municipal Clerks Association during Rios’s tenure.
The council voted the appointment through on the consent agenda as part of a larger package of routine items. Council members and speakers on the dais praised Rios’s institutional knowledge and the clerk’s office for creating a promotion path that allowed Erica Brady — who has served more than a decade in the clerk’s office, including as deputy city clerk — to be named as her successor.
Watson said Brady oversaw the technical operations, elections, finance and administrative support teams in the clerk’s office. Council members made brief remarks recognizing Rios’s service and congratulating Brady on the appointment.
