Clockwise from top left: Mayor Cole Stanley, Assistant City Manager Laura Storrs, City Manager Jared Miller, Councilman Place 3 Tom Scherlen/Photos and graphic by Noah Dawson

The Amarillo Pioneer was the only local news outlet present at all three days of the City of Amarillo’s first round of 2023 budget workshops, which were held from July 25th to July 28th.

While we plan on releasing several stories highlighting key discussions that occurred during the workshops, we are also releasing our full audio recordings of the meetings with our new podcast, titled “The Budget Tapes.”

Our recording of Day 1 is live now and can be found below. We also have an automatically generated transcript of the recording, though it should be noted that the transcript isn’t 100% accurate.

We will be releasing our recordings of Day 2 and Day 3 shortly. We also plan to attend and record the second round of workshops, currently scheduled for August 9th and 10th.