San Antonio City Council held an April 18 special session at the Henry B. González Convention Center to discuss high-level budget priorities for fiscal year 2025. Not that anyone in town would know much about it from reading the local paper or watching TV news.
Not enough everyday people are engaged with local politics, and that leads to bad decisions about how to spend public money.
And most importantly, nothing whatsoever about the city's efforts to involve the wider public in the budget process — the topic of the Director of Communications and Engagement Alanna Reed's slideshow. Have you heard anything about the SASpeakUp survey anywhere? Much of this appears baked into San Antonio's governmental structure. Despite what you may think, we're not an autonomous collective. We operate on a
That tracks. Having electricity generation that's not in the hands of a for-profit corporation answering to shareholders is a blessing worth being grateful for. Indeed, Walsh's team claims to regularly check CPS's figures, hash out any disagreements internally and report back to the council. "If we were to go and pick up every homeless person off the street today, and we'd say, 'We want to help you, come with us,' we have no place to put them," Courage, one of the two mayoral candidates said when discussing affordable workforce housing.this year to clear out homeless encampments. Also, despite the dramatically falling murder rates last year, we plowed ahead with plans to hire 60 more police officers.
Of course, if you've ever been a victim of violent crime, not repeating the trauma is liable to top your list of priorities. But "only 2% of people are ever affected by violent crime,"
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