SAN ANTONIO – With a $158 million deficit, City Council members and the mayor will make some major decisions to balance the budget.<\/p>\n
And they have a couple of choices. They include cutting some city services or raising taxes.<\/p>\n
It is a hard choice for many on the council and the mayor, who has said she would like to see every city department cut spending, saying it could help San Antonio avoid a property tax increase.<\/p>\n
Some options on the table include library staffing and realignment discussions.<\/p>\n
Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones is proposing reallocating $21 million from Ready to Work to the general fund.<\/p>\n
The mayor says she would like to see a fair sacrifice across departments and says the cuts could prevent property tax hikes in 2027 and 2028.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’m much more concerned about, frankly, the fat that’s still in this budget versus some of the reductions, and 1.6 percent across the board I think is fair and is manageable,\u201d Mayor Jones said.<\/p>\n
If council doesn\u2019t pass a balanced plan by Sept. 27, the city manager must make adjustments to balance the budget and notify council.<\/p>\n
Some council members say they need more details before backing the plan, including which programs or positions could be affected.<\/p>\n
Today’s meeting starts at 9 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO – With a $158 million deficit, City Council members and the mayor will make some major…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-438817","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\/438817","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=438817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}