Here are a few things to know this week if you live in Southwest Austin:
1. The Sherman Division of the U.S. District Court Eastern District of Texas granted a
preliminary injunction against the new federal rule that would update the overtime threshold across the country, extending overtime protection to more than 4 million salaried workers nationwide. As a result, the rule will not take effect Dec. 1—
as anticipated—anywhere in the nation.
2. Aviator Pizza & Brew Co., an Elgin-based pizza restaurant, will open its
second location Dec. 7 at 6501 S. Congress Ave., Austin, in the former suite of Billie Jean’s Burger Pub. The business offers craft
pizza, salads, sandwiches, pasta, Texas craft beer and select wines.
3. Big changes could be coming to
Loop 360 as t
he Texas Department of Transportation develops potential plans to improve traffic flow by adding intersection overpasses and underpasses and a pair of new lanes in the median.
4. Larry Wallace will take over as interim president of Central Health at the start of 2017, the Central Health Board of Managers announced Wednesday.
Wallace, who currently serves as Central Health’s executive vice president and chief operating officer, will replace President and CEO Patricia Young Brown,
who said Oct. 5 she would be retiring Dec. 31. Wallace will also serve as CEO.
5. The city of Austin aims to
hit the ground running following voters' approval in November of a $720 million mobility bond.
About $482 million of that bond will go toward implementing projects in seven completed corridor studies of Burnet Road; East Riverside Drive; Guadalupe Street; and North and South Lamar, Airport and Martin Luther King Jr. boulevards. Funds would also go toward studying an eighth corridor on either Slaughter Lane or William Cannon Drive or both.
6. With only a few days until the Dec. 6 application deadline, the city’s Commission on Veterans Affairs is attempting to organize a grant application to fund a one-stop shop
veterans services center in Austin. The grant would be issued by the nonprofit, nonpartisan Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute of Texas.
