San Antonio City Manager will have โconversationโ with city attorney after council membersโ closed-door grievance airing
Less than week after nearly half the San Antonio City Council called for a meeting to discuss the โfitnessโ of the city attorney, they got a chance to air their grievances behind closed doors.
Council members deny leaking info after city attorney says he has โno confidenceโ in executive session confidentiality
City Attorney Andy Segovia all but accused council members of leaking information on the fire contract negotiations. Four of the five council members calling for a discussion on his suitability for the job denied their offices were behind it.
Carriage operators say San Antonio needs to hold its horses on proposed ban
The city councilโs Governance Committee voted unanimously Wednesday to send a proposal to ban horse-drawn carriages over to the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee for consideration. The specifics havenโt been decided yet, but the vote means the 16-month-old request is still alive.
โYou canโt argue with the numbersโ: SAPD say โhot spotโ policing strategy helped level off violent crime
The San Antonio Police Department and criminologists with the University of Texas at San Antonio say a new โhot spotโ policing strategy has helped fight violent crime in the Alamo City.
Council member files request to develop income-based pet deposit assistance program for San Antonio renters
Dignowity Hill resident Vanessa Acosta said the City of San Antonio needs a long-term solution for animal overpopulation. District 2 Councilmember Jalen McKee-Rodriguez is proposing a new plan.
San Antonio City Council passes new code of conduct; questions raised about enforcement
Less than three weeks after issuing its third formal reprimand to a council member in the past 15 months, the city council voted 8-2 to adopt a new code of conduct. However, itโs debatable if the code would even apply to all three incidents, and the enforcement measures included in the code are all largely symbolic.
City Council approves CPS Energy rate hike; increase to take effect in February
The San Antonio City Council voted 8-3 Thursday morning for the second increase in two years of CPS Energyโs gas and electric rates. This latest rate hike is expected to cost the average residential customer an additional $4.45 per month after it takes effect in February 2024.
โA middle fingerโ: San Antonio councilman blasts staff rejection of crime prevention office plan
Nearly 20 months after the East Side councilman submitted a request to consider the creation of a brand-new โOffice of Crime and Recidivism Prevention,โ a top city executive had told him and the other committee members that such an office was unnecessary.
โAir of compromiseโ: Abortion travel fund, mental health teams among proposed city budget tweaks
Expanding a popular mental health team, creating a fund to help cover travel to out-of-state abortion clinics, and giving more money for Animal Care Services were among the most high-profile changes council members discussed making to the budget - largely favorably.
Councilman proposes program to make homeownership more accessible, affordable for teachers in San Antonio
District 2 Councilman Jalen McKee-Rodriguez is working to make homeownership more accessible and affordable for teachers and school personnel and has filed a Council Consideration Request to establish a program with that goal in mind.
What we know about 3 San Antonio police officers charged with murder in death of Melissa Perez
SAPD Chief William McManus said Friday night the officers didnโt follow department training or policy and โused deadly force, which was not reasonable given all the circumstances as we now understand them.โ
Pride on the Eastside Festival provides community with HIV educational awareness, resources
Part of Pride Month is having difficult conversations about LGBTQ+ issues and replacing negative stigmas with educational awareness. The Pride on the Eastside Festival did just that in a fun and empowering way on Saturday.
Plan to expand city non-discrimination ordinance scaled back
Nearly a full year after Councilman Jalen McKee-Rodriguez proposed expanding the city's NDO to include private employers and increasing penalties for violations, the measures are conspicuously absent from city staff recommendations for updating the ordinance.
City council still divided on how to spend $50M of CPS windfall
The hot temperatures and higher natural gas costs have been pushing up power bills, which increases CPS Energy revenues in turn and the amount the utility passes on to the city. While city staff has proposed giving $50 million back to CPS customers - mostly through bill credits averaging $31 for residential customers- city council members havenโt all signed on to the idea..
SAPD wants to add up to 50 more officers; East and West Side council members against it
Councilman Jalen McKee-Rodriguez and Councilwoman Teri Castillo were the only dissenting council members in a 7-2 vote on whether to pursue a grant of up to $6.25 million through the U.S. Department of Justice, which would help pay for up to 50 new police officer positions. The pair of freshman council members, who represent the East and West Sides respectively, raised concerns about whether adding officers would help reduce crime and about the increase to SAPDโs budget that would results from it.
District 2 councilman wants his half of โBrackโ back in redistricting plan
Brackenridge Park is currently split between District 1 and District 2 along East Mulberry Avenue, but the proposed map would place it entirely within District 1 by removing the only two precincts in the district that are fully to the west of Broadway Avenue.
After retreating from the bond process, Texas Biomed gets $10 million for infrastructure through ARPA
Despite vocal opposition from animal rights activists and others, city council voted Thursday to give $10 million to Texas Biomedical Research Institute for infrastructure improvements at its campus.
โDonโt want to give the Dist. 2 Councilman what he wantsโ: Business groups oppose expanding non-discrimination ordinance
Though theyโre avoiding an all-out offensive, San Antonio business groups are resisting the idea of expanding the cityโs non-discrimination ordinance commonly referred to simply as the NDO.
SA City Council approves $17M in tax rebates for Spurs training facility and larger โHuman Performance Campusโ
The City of San Antonio is officially kicking in public dollars towards the Spurs Sports & Entertainment-led $510.8 million โHuman Performance Campusโ near La Cantera, bringing the total of local, public incentives up to $32 million.
District 2 runoff election heating up with endorsements, alleged homophobia
Jalen McKee-Rodriguez tweeted on Tuesday that, โThere are pastors and church leaders telling their congregants that a vote for me is a sin... and the Councilwoman is enabling that rhetoric and behavior because she benefits from it.โ
Incumbent Andrews-Sullivan faces host of challengers in District 2 council race
Coming off of her first term, District 2 Councilwoman Jada Andrews-Sullivan has 11 challengers looking to unseat her, more than twice as many as any other incumbent, with the exception of the always crowded mayorโs race.