Austin City Council presents committee and intergovernmental appointments to city clerk

Mayor Kirk Watson presented the Austin City Council’s slate of committee and intergovernmental appointments on Jan. 28, 2025, and said he would submit the final list to the city clerk to make the assignments official.

The appointments set chairs, vice chairs and members for standing council committees and designate the city’s representatives to several intergovernmental bodies. The mayor said two committees — Climate, Water, Environment and Parks, and Economic Opportunity — require separate ordinance action and will not take effect until the council votes on that ordinance on Thursday.

“What I’m gonna do, members, is read into the record where we are on this and then the way the code works is I will present the final version of this to the city clerk,” Mayor Kirk Watson said as he read the appointments aloud.

Key committee assignments read into the record by Watson were: Audit and Finance — Chair: Mayor Kirk Watson; Vice Chair: Councilmember Ryan Alter; Members: Mayor Pro Tem Vanessa Fuentes, Councilmember Jose Velasquez, Councilmember Mark Duchin. Austin Energy Oversight Committee — Chair: Councilmember Jose Velasquez; Vice Chair: Councilmember Mike Siegel (the mayor noted this is a…