{"id":409966,"date":"2026-08-18T17:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T17:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/409966\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T17:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T17:16:08","slug":"poll-would-you-pay-35-more-a-year-in-city-property-taxes-to-avoid-deeper-service-cuts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/409966\/","title":{"rendered":"POLL: Would you pay $35 more a year in city property taxes to avoid deeper service cuts?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO &#8211; San Antonio is considering a <a href=\"https:\/\/news4sanantonio.com\/news\/local\/city-manager-presents-san-antonios-balanced-fy-2027-budget-proposes-tax-rate-hike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">property tax increase as part of its proposed $4.4 billion budget for fiscal year 2027<\/a>. The city is facing a projected General Fund shortfall of nearly $158 million through 2028 and has proposed nearly $90 million in spending cuts to help close the gap.<\/p>\n<p>Under the proposal, the city&#8217;s property tax rate would increase from 54.159 cents to 56.288 cents per $100 of taxable value. For the average homeowner, city officials estimate that would mean paying about $35 more per year compared with last year&#8217;s tax bill.<\/p>\n<p>City Manager Erik Walsh has said avoiding the tax increase would require finding roughly another $29 million in cuts this year. Those cuts could potentially affect services funded through the General Fund, which includes police, fire, parks, Animal Care Services, health programs and street maintenance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO &#8211; San Antonio is considering a property tax increase as part of its proposed $4.4 billion&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-409966","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\/409966","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=409966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}