San Antonio Councilwoman Teri Castillo (D5) wants the city to take more steps to protect older San Antonians. She submitted a policy proposal on Wednesday asking the city to provide “no soliciting” yard signs, lobbying for stronger laws and providing access to legal aid.
Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones and a city committee flipped on a no-action recommendation from staff to track heat-related deaths in San Antonio, approving the policy for a future Community Health committee meeting.
In her time as mayor, Jones has notably lobbied for delays to Project Marvel and changes to the Council Consideration Requests (CCR) process amid a constant back-and-forth with city council members.
The San Antonio City Council voted 9-2 on Thursday to amend an ordinance for the city’s policy proposal process amid a power struggle at City Hall.
The San Antonio City Council will meet on Thursday morning to vote on the $4 billion city budget and an amended ordinance for the policy proposal process.
A power struggle is continuing at City Hall as four council members challenged San Antonio Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones’ push to overhaul the process for advancing policy proposals.
Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones joined the KSAT Q&A on Tuesday to discuss several topics, including recent contention between council members for a vote on pet dumping fines.
A proposal to fine people caught dumping unwanted pets and other animals in San Antonio will get a council vote after all.
Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones delayed a proposal this week that aimed to punish people who abandon animals in San Antonio, a source told KSAT.
Jones said she still intends to look at ways to improve the process, but asked council members to provide feedback.
A council consideration request (CCR) filed by District 5’s Teri Castillo to adopt a more holistic approach to traffic measures in San Antonio is inching closer to a full council vote.
A Council Consideration Request is waiting to be put on the Planning & Community Development Committee's agenda. If council approves it, a committee could be created to review the two codes.
The eight members of the 11-person Transportation Advisory Board who were present Wednesday voted unanimously to recommend city council consider keeping horse-drawn carriages in San Antonio. The board’s motion also indicated a desire to specifically keep the carriages downtown.
The city council’s 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 haven’t been decided yet, but the vote means the 16-month-old request is still alive.
Councilwoman Teri Castillo said community members from her district have been vocal about safety and health concerns regarding recycling and salvage yards.
Nearly 20 months after the East Side councilman submitted a request to consider the creation of a brand-new “Office of Crime and Recidivism Prevention,” a top city executive had told him and the other committee members that such an office was unnecessary.
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.
Though San Antonio already participates in a cite and release program, it wasn’t passed by city council, and District 8 Councilman Manny Pelaez says it’s time to “codify something.” But with Pelaez submitting his request for a marijuana-only program - just one day after meeting with SA Stands member who want to include several other misdemeanors - the coalition smells a rat.
Though they’re avoiding an all-out offensive, San Antonio business groups are resisting the idea of expanding the city’s non-discrimination ordinance commonly referred to simply as the NDO.
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Monday marks National Moon Day, but of course, the day isn’t really about famous people, bands or items that have “moon” in their names. (Still, that didn’t stop us from creating this quiz!) National Moon Day is all about the first moon landing, which took place 51 years ago on this day and saw Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first humans to ever step foot on the moon. But instead of coming up with a quiz about the various geological features of the moon or astronautical engineering, we thought it would be more fun to come up with a little test on people, artists or general items in entertainment and pop culture that are loosely tied to the word “moon.”Hopefully, you can achieve a score that is out of this world.