{"id":170621,"date":"2026-02-19T01:22:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T01:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/170621\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T01:22:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T01:22:24","slug":"san-antonio-city-council-to-discuss-mayor-reprimand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/170621\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio City Council to discuss mayor reprimand"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN ANTONIO \u2014 Following a complaint<\/a> over her behavior, the San Antonio City Council will discuss a potential public reprimand for Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones in a special meeting on Monday.<\/p>\n

A vote on the censure could come at a later time, if the council wants to take that action. Jones would become the first San Antonio mayor in modern history to receive a censure, which is a penalty-less action, the San Antonio Express-News reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

District 1 Councilwoman Sukh Kaur filed the grievance against Jones in early February, alleging the mayor shouted and cursed at her in a staff area after a council meeting.<\/p>\n

The Express-News said the incident stemmed from the pair\u2019s disagreement over a deadline for gay nightclub Bonham Exchange to install required fire sprinklers. The nightclub missed an October 2023 deadline to install, and Kaur supported a resolution to give the establishment until February 2027 without adjusting occupancy.<\/p>\n

Jones reportedly pressured Bonham Exchange\u2019s general manager and co-owner, Joan Duckworth, into slicing occupancy in half. The fire department recommended this cut, according to the Express-News.<\/p>\n

A Bonham Exchange attorney told the Express-News that Duckworth had described the call from Jones as \u201csomewhat threatening.\u201d<\/p>\n

Five councilwomen supported Kaur with a signed memo about the investigation into Jones.<\/p>\n

Upon reading the memo, Jones issued a statement saying she was \u201cdisappointed that some of my colleagues felt this was a necessary step\u201d but heard their concerns. She also said her style of leadership \u201cdoes not always align with the traditional templates of female leaders or my colleagues\u2019 views.\u201d<\/p>\n

In an interview with Spectrum News 1 last week, councilwoman and memo-signer Phyllis Viagran said the incident came down to respect and violating the code of conduct, not difference in style.<\/p>\n

Editor\u2019s Note: A previous version of this story stated that the San Antonio City Council will vote on censure at the meeting on 2\/23, as reported by the San Antonio Express-News. This is not the case. They will discuss a potential future censure at this meeting with a potential vote in the future. (Feb. 18, 2026)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2014 Following a complaint over her behavior, the San Antonio City Council will discuss a potential…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139,30432,1063,223,287,82,6293,27],"class_list":["post-170621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-hannah-maguire","tag-local-politics","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-what-you-need-to-know","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}