Nathan Bernier Austin transportation reporter KUT News
X

EXCLUSIVE: Austin Energy says Austin City Council members have taken secret votes for years...

2 posts from a reporting thread.

Read original at X
Permalink Original on X

EXCLUSIVE: Austin Energy says Austin City Council members have taken secret votes for years on matters involving the publicly owned utility, and that those votes don’t appear in any public record.

My first collab with KUT’s @MoseBuchele:

kut.org/politics/2026-… Austin City Council has been voting in secret for years, despite the city’s claims of transparency The City Council may have been voting on Austin Energy matters in closed-door meetings since 1999. The votes are kept so secret that public records do not even indicate that they happened at all.
Permalink Original on X

The disclosure only came after KUT News reviewed more than 1,000 City Council meetings and challenged the utility’s claim that such votes “ARE indicated in council minutes.”