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The City of Austin has called a special election for Tuesday, November 5th.  Voters will be asked to decide whether Austin should borrow $65 million to be used in partnership with other organizations to provide affordable rental housing, assistance with home ownership, and preservation of existing affordable housing.  The video below was developed by the City of Austin to show how the funding would be used. The City has also developed this flier about the ballot proposition.

Affordable Housing Bond Election 2013

The UC Berkley Labor Center reported this week that more than half of all front-line fast food workers in the U.S. are enrolled in one or more public benefit programs. In Texas, 59% of fast food workers receive Earned Income Tax Credits, Medicaid or CHIP, Food Stamps, or Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. The report, "Fast Food, Poverty Wages: The Public Cost of Low-Wage Jobs in the Fast-Food Industry" estimates the fast-food industry's low wages cost U.S. taxpayers more than $7 billion a year, with $556 million of that total going to Texas fast food workers.  

Austin Energy is warning its utility customers of a telephone scam that seeks to trick people into wiring money to a bank account.  The scam masks the telephone number to make it appear that the call is coming from the Austin Energy customer service office.  The callers claim that the customer's electric bill is past due and will be disconnected unless payment instructions are followed. 

Austin Energy reminds customers that the utility will never ask customers to make a wire transfer and never seeks credit card numbers or information over the phone. Anyone receiving these calls is asked to call 3-1-1 to report the incident. Click here to learn more about this telephone masking scam.

Residents, businesses and land owners in zip code 78724 are invited to a Community Workshop this Saturday, October 19th that will focus on how to transform more than 200 acres of publicly-owned land in the Colony Park neighborhood.  The City of Austin received a $3 million Community Challenge grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to develop a master plan to transform this now vacant land into a mixed-use, mixed-income development.  

The workshop will be held in the Turner-Roberts Recreation Center, 7201 Colony Park Drive.  The day will kick off with a light breakfast at 8:30 a.m. and will end with a barbecue lunch at 1 p.m. Learn more about the Colony Park project.

The E3 Alliance, Educational Service Center 13 and other partners will host a conference on RAISEup Texas, a targeted whole-school approach to improving student achievement in secondary schools that was created by the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning. 

Hear from local principals how RAISEup Texas is transforming seven middle schools in six Central Texas school districts.  Participating schools have outperformed comparison schools in every subject in every grade, and teachers report positive changes in the learning environment.

Continuing Education credit hours are available.  The Conference will be held Thursday, October 24th from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the ACC Eastview Campus.  Registration is required.

The Center for Politics and Governance at the LBJ School of Public Affairs will host a symposium on innovative solutions to the challenges facing cities today.  Panel discussions will explore three key areas in reimagining a vibrant urban core: arts and culture, economic development, and game-changing technology. Panelists will include local and national experts and the Mayors of Austin, Corpus Christi, and Oklahoma City.

The symposium will be held on Friday, October 25th from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Bass Lecture Hall on the UT Austin campus.  Click here to learn more and to register.   

The Red Bench is a community dialogue initiative of Interfaith Action Central Texas that encourages people of all faith traditions and walks of life to engage in meaningful conversations about important topics.  This month's conversation will focus on, "What is the difference between religion and spirituality? Is there a difference?"

The small group, facilitated discussions will be held Tuesday, October 29th from 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. at the "Family Life Center" of First United Methodist Church at 1300 Lavaca.  RSVP on Facebook here.