SAN ANTONIO, Tx \u2014 Several members of the San Antonio city council are raising concerns about the mayor\u2019s plant to cut funding from several groups to make up for a projected $158 million budget gap.<\/p>\n
Multiple council members said they were caught off guard by the letter Mayor Jones sent to several of the city\u2019s largest employers asking for help with funding of for 15 organizations the city would normally give money too. District 10 councilman Marc Whyte says city council members were notified of the letter Friday when the letter was sent out to the public.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is one of the issues I think that the mayor has had, that I think nearly all my colleagues have a problem with,\u201d Whyte said. \u201cSending out all these letters.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the letter sent on Friday Mayor Jones asked the CEOs from H-E-B, Valero, and USAA for help funding 15 organizations. The MLK Commission is on that list. They get $300 thousand from the city every year. That money helps pay for the annual MLK March, which is the largest in the country. Dr. Doshie Piper, the Commission Chair says without that money the march could be in jeopardy.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe free event that is for the community after the march after we walk down the streets together in unity, peacefully, commemorating Dr. King and everything he did for the community. We would not be able to celebrate that afterwards.\u201d<\/p>\n
Programs like the SAWS Plumbers to People also stands to lose city funding. District 1 Councilwoman Sukh Kaur said she worries about what would happen if that program isn\u2019t funded.<\/p>\n
District 9 Councilwoman Misty Spears offered a different opinion and is willing to see if any of the businesses that mayor called on will give more.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s a resourceful way to see how we can have these organizations continue with all the great work that they are doing.<\/p>\n
The council is currently on recess until July. They are set to hear a presentation on the proposed budget in August. They will take a final vote on the budget in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO, Tx \u2014 Several members of the San Antonio city council are raising concerns about the mayor\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-389908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389908","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=389908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}