Before Ryan Alter was elected to City Council, he was a staffer in the Texas Legislature – and it shows. Through his two years in office, he has proven time and time again to be a studied and prepared policymaker. He is unafraid of the nitty-gritty as he consistently buries himself and his staff in the weeds of policy, where they repeatedly emerge with valuable amendments – like on Austin Energy's resource generation plan, a budget that helped fund mental health crisis response, and a resolution that strengthened civilian police oversight.
