{"id":5451,"date":"2025-10-15T20:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T20:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/5451\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T20:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T20:29:07","slug":"mayor-jones-blocks-no-cost-initiative-to-support-local-educators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/5451\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Jones blocks &#8216;no-cost&#8217; initiative to support local educators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO &#8211; Some city council members and residents are expressing their frustration after Mayor Jones blocked a &#8216;no-cost gesture of support&#8217; for educators.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, District 7 Councilwoman Marina Alderete Gavito expressed her frustration with Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones after Jones vetoed Gavito&#8217;s  Council Consideration Request (CCR), which called for the City to work with local businesses to provide teacher discounts, advocate for teacher well-being, and receive regular updates on education issues.<\/p>\n<p>Gavito said in a statement that the effort was intended to be a &#8220;simple, goodwill effort to show educators that the City of San Antonio values their work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>RELATED | <a href=\"https:\/\/news4sanantonio.com\/news\/local\/politically-motivated-mayor-jones-responds-after-ethics-board-vote#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/news4sanantonio.com\/news\/local\/politically-motivated-mayor-jones-responds-after-ethics-board-vote#\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8220;Politically Motivated&#8221;: Mayor Jones responds after ethics board vote<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTeachers across San Antonio are overworked, underpaid, and under constant pressure from state-level politics,\u201d said Councilmember Marina Alderete Gavito. \u201cBlocking a no-cost gesture of support sends the wrong message. This should have been about partnership and gratitude \u2014 not petty politics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At a city council meeting on Wednesday, it was also clarified by Councilwoman Gavito that the work would be carried out entirely by volunteer-based boards and commissions \u2014 the Small Business Advisory Commission and the City of San Antonio Higher Education Student Advisory Board.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED | <a href=\"https:\/\/news4sanantonio.com\/news\/local\/citys-ethics-board-reviews-complaint-against-mayor-gina-ortiz-jones#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/news4sanantonio.com\/news\/local\/citys-ethics-board-reviews-complaint-against-mayor-gina-ortiz-jones#\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">City&#8217;s ethics review board dismisses complaint against Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur teachers deserve our support,\u201d she said. \u201cI remain committed to finding ways the City can stand with our educators \u2014 through action, not excuses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The four-member committee vote was split 2-2, with Councilmembers McKee-Rodriguez (District 2) and Mungia (District 4) voting for the item, while Mayor Jones and Councilmember Viagran (District 3) voted against the item.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO &#8211; Some city council members and residents are expressing their frustration after Mayor Jones blocked a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4519,5632,5631,5629,5630,82,84,83,2142,5633],"class_list":["post-5451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-city-council","tag-councilwoman-gavito","tag-local-educators","tag-mayor-jones","tag-no-cost-initiative","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-support","tag-teacher-discounts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5451","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=5451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}