Even though Bexar County voters approved it last year, Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones is making yet another move against a potential new arena for the Spurs in downtown San Antonio.<\/p>\n
The Mayor wants the public to weigh in once more on the Spurs arena aspect of Project Marvel, specifically on the city’s $489 million contribution.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In a memo sent Friday afternoon to San Antonio City Council, as well as City Manager Erik Walsh and City Attorney Andy Segovia, Jones pitched a potential November vote as one that would allow residents “to weigh in on what the city has negotiated.”<\/p>\n
“November would allow city voters to vote clearly informed by what they are paying, what they are receiving in return and whether the latter is good enough,” Jones said in her memo.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Mayor is blaming the city’s “affordability crisis,” specifically highlighting a lower-than-expected 2027 bond capacity; the $157.7 million budget deficit that will be central to fiscal conversations at City Hall next month; and the possibility of a property tax hike in the wake of the budget shortfall.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even though Bexar County voters approved it last year, Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones is making yet another move…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[56,66,223,82,84,83,27],"class_list":["post-396266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-houston","tag-local","tag-news","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396266","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=396266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}