When Austinites rejected Proposition Q on Election Day, they sent city council back to the drawing board to create a new budget — which Austin adopted in what seemed like record time. On today’s episode, executive producer Eva Ruth Moravec is joined by Amy Stansbury, editor-in-chief of the Austin Common, to recap what all council cut and funded to balance the budget; how efforts by Prop Q opponents to force an audit may be redundant to what the city’s already doing; and whether the city can regain the public’s trust when it comes to spending and austerity.

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Can Austin City Council Regain the Public’s Trust?