Austin officials unanimously approved a reduced $6.3 billion budget and tax rate for the city's fiscal year 2025-26, weeks after voters rejected a tax hike under Proposition Q and prompted the budget revision process.

The details: The proposition's failure in the Nov. 4 election automatically dropped the city's tax rate from the level set under Proposition Q, removing about $100 million from Austin's general fund. Taxes and other city fees will still rise for the typical homeowner, and are projected to increase further next year.

This fall's budget revisions largely centered around the nearly $1.5 billion general fund supporting public safety departments; public health; homelessness and housing programs; and parks, library, animal services, and arts and culture operations. Council members had advanced the overturned tax increase to support most of those areas given concerns about state and federal funding cuts, and to expand higher profile city services.

Council members' final amendments to the revised budget approved Nov. 20 also involved those topics, with a focus on supporting emergency medical services and some homelessness initiatives.

The Austin ISD board of trustees voted to close 10 campuses next school year at a Nov. 20 meeting.

What's happening: The board’s vote comes nine months after the district began discussing consolidating campuses to address failed state ratings, reduce a $110 budget shortfall and combat an ongoing decline in enrollment.

The board also approved turnaround plans to provide intervention at 14 additional failing campuses, which may involve restaffing the schools with new teachers and principals as well as providing extra support staff and academic resources.

What you need to know: AISD will close eight elementary schools and two middle schools next school year. Seven of these campuses have received three consecutive F ratings from the Texas Education Agency and require state-mandated intervention through turnaround plans.

The school-wide dual language programs at Becker and Ridgetop elementaries, which are closing, and Reilly Elementary will relocate and be introduced as two-way dual language programs at Sanchez, Pickle and Wooten elementaries.

In total, 3,796 students will be reassigned, and 6,319 vacant seats will be eliminated.

Ceremony Spa is toasting to reaching 15 years of community and business in the South Austin area.

What to know: The business is owned by Asenath Avinash and offers a community atmosphere for spa services. Customers can find a range of offerings from massage and acupuncture to sauna, cold plunges and full body scrubs.

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Thanksgiving week is expected to be one of the busiest U.S. travel periods in history, according to projections from AAA. A record 5.8 million Texans are projected to travel at least 50 miles from home Nov. 25-Dec. 1.

Zooming in: About 5.3 million Texans are expected to drive to their Thanksgiving destinations, according to a Nov. 17 news release, while about 328,000 people will fly and 140,000 will use other forms of transportation.

The impact: Texans should give themselves extra time to reach their destinations during Thanksgiving week, with the most congestion expected Nov. 25-26. Traffic is also expected to be heavy as Texans return home Nov. 30, according to INRIX, a transportation data company.

Minimal traffic is expected on Thanksgiving Day.

More details: Texas drivers will pay about the same for gas as they did last Thanksgiving, according to AAA Texas. One gallon of regular unleaded gas cost about $2.65 in Texas as of Nov. 13, down from $2.69 last year.