CITY BUDGET

Following a string of shootings involving San Antonio Police officers, the city will spend $1.75 million in the coming years to upgrade windshields and side windows on police vehicles to ballistic glass.

If the budget is approved, the city will allocate funds for an additional 200 encampment sweeps for the next fiscal year.

With about a month until the San Antonio City Council is slated to pass a final version of next year’s budget, council members and residents alike are beginning to sift through the record $3.7 billion proposed version.

In just a few weeks the San Antonio City Council will vote on the proposed $3.4 billion proposed budget.

The city’s budget serves as a roadmap to provide residents with services and programming for next year.

San Antonio City Council members considered the final few changes to the city’s largest-ever budget Wednesday afternoon on the eve of its passage.

San Antonio city staff is putting together a plan that would better prepare the community for any future catastrophic disaster like the one San Antonio experienced in February 2021.

Commissioners voted 3-1, with one abstention, to cut the tax rate for the county’s portion of property tax bills from $0.301097 to $0.299999 for every $100 of valuation. That equates to somewhere between a $3 to $4 savings a year for the average homeowner, staff said.

SAN ANTONIO Its a clash between a proposed city budget and a demand to defund the police. On Thursday, protesters gathered on the East Side at Pittman-Sullivan Park to discuss what defunding means to them and what other financial moves can be made within the citys budget. The full story can be viewed in the video player above. RELATED: Sky 12 over protestors at Bexar County Jail