By making it so that cites couldn't enforce masks, it sent the message to our community that maybe this thing was over. Austin Mayor Steve Adler More Quotes by Austin Mayor Steve Adler More Quotes From Austin Mayor Steve Adler And we have to figure out in our community what works to make us even safer than we are now, that has to be our constant push. Austin Mayor Steve Adler When the governor started reopening, I wish he had done it a little slowly so we could have seen the numbers in each one of the phases before we moved on to the next phase. Austin Mayor Steve Adler His suggestion that people experiencing homelessness are criminals is not true, its kind of like saying all immigrants are rapists. Its harmful to a community where we demonize people like that. Austin Mayor Steve Adler