SAN ANTONIO – San Antonio Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones is continuing her effort to hear directly from residents as the city prepares to tackle a significant budget shortfall.<\/p>\n
The mayor hosts a monthly town hall in different parts of the city to give residents a chance to ask questions, share concerns and discuss issues affecting their communities.<\/p>\n
Ortiz Jones said one of the biggest concerns she’s hearing right now is the city’s budget. She said city leaders face difficult decisions as they work to close the gap while protecting essential services.<\/p>\n
It’s gonna be a big gap,” she said. “It’s gonna be some tough discussions as we make sure that we are closing the gap and that we are protecting the services for our most vulnerable and are doing everything possible to not raise property taxes. For me, that is the last resort. That’s why we have to go through these exercises and make sure we’ve done everything to protect the most vulnerable.<\/p>\n
Tonight’s town hall will be held at Edison High School on Santa Monica from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
The proposed city budget is scheduled to be presented to the San Antonio City Council on Aug. 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO – San Antonio Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones is continuing her effort to hear directly from residents…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-390558","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\/390558","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=390558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}