CITY COUNCIL

The Martha's Vineyard flight came as a disappointment to San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg after all the city's attempts to welcome asylum-seekers and ease their journeys.

Following a pandemic that cost them more than $50 million combined, the San Antonio City Council approved the final list of 46 local non-profit art organizations and 136 artists to split $5 million in federal relief dollars.

The city is preparing to ask outside companies for proposals on managing and maintaining the airport’s parking, likely with the use of new technology and services like the ability to reserve spaces in advance. City officials think “parking optimization” could boost parking revenues by 30% to 50%.

This December, CPS Energy customers will receive a credit from the City of San Antonio as part of recent action by the City Council, according to a press release from CPS Energy.

The contract calls for new private funding that the chamber will seek out.

Councilman Mario Bravo (D1) has been indefinitely suspended from of his committee assignments and any external appointments following an angry confrontation with Councilwoman Ana Sandoval (D7) ahead of the budget vote on Sep. 15.

Councilman Mario Bravo apologized to Councilwoman Ana Sandoval, his former romantic partner, but still insists she broke her promise to environmentalists.

Prefabricated modular homes may soon be on the rise in San Antonio thanks in part to a proposed change to the city’s development code.

District 1 Councilman Mario Bravo lit into District 7 Councilwoman Ana Sandoval directly ahead of the city budget vote on Sep. 15, in a confrontation that included personal comments, sources tell KSAT.

New playground equipment — including an arachnid-shaped “spider climber” — is planned for Bill Witt Park, where some equipment was removed in March.

San Diego officials on Tuesday were expected to approve a $600,000 payout to a woman who was severely injured when a police dog attacked her in her own yard after escaping from its trainer's home nearby. A lawsuit filed by Jenna Cole in March called the bite a “vicious” and “unprovoked attack” and accused the city of negligence for how it trained, monitored and caged the K-9. The suit also contended such animals should be in secure facilities, not residential neighborhoods.

The one-way streets near James Monroe High School in Fredericksburg will soon be converted to two-way, city officials announced in a news release Friday.

The San Antonio City Council is poised to pass a $3.4 billion budget Thursday that includes pay bumps for employees, dozens of new police officer positions, and a property tax cut. But it is unclear whether council members will follow a staff recommendation to send $50 million in extra revenue back to CPS Energy customers or take more time to figure out an alternate use.

The Fredericksburg School Board at its meeting Monday evening agreed to cut $2.7 million from the estimated cost of the city's new middle school.

An hours-long Uvalde city council meeting set forward a new era of police department physical fitness requirements and UPD's communication center.

After yet another discussion Tuesday on how to spend $50 million of extra CPS Energy revenue, the 11-member San Antonio City Council still appears split nearly down the middle regarding a city staff plan to send most of it back to consumers as bill credits.

As council prepares to vote on San Antonio's $3.4 billion spending plan, it's clear that federal pandemic funds saved the city.

While the current budget proposal for the city in FY 2023 would provide $100,000 to the commission, its members want council members to approve $300,000 when the vote on the final version.

Amid growing complaints from residents about trash, San Antonio's solid waste department is threatening consequences for illegal dumpers.

The housing department’s proposed jump from $48.8 million in the current budget year to $150.2 million for FY 2023 is fueled almost entirely by the city’s first-ever housing bond, which voters approved in May. The $99.9 million in bond money is split between producing and preserving affordable housing.

With just over two weeks until the San Antonio City Council is scheduled to vote on a budget, the question of what to do with $50 million of unexpected revenue is still up in the air.

U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh said the federal government should be investing in programs like Ready to Work, which uses city sales tax dollars to fund job training and degree programs for low-income residents.

A three-term City Councilman has withdrawn from seeking reelection Nov. 8.

After conducting its first market analysis since 2008, the city’s proposed budget would give a 5% increase across the board, with additional market adjustments between 2% and 15%. The raises, which total $53 million, are for civilian employees, as well as airport and park police officers - nearly 9,000 positions in all.

The Uvalde School Board is deciding whether or not to fire police chief Pete Arredondo for his handling of the Robb Elementary shooting.

Selma city employees will receive a 4.5 percent salary increase while the city reduces...

Under the proposed city budget, SAPD would get 78 new uniform positions for a total of 2,581. Meanwhile, SAFD’s firefighter and EMS positions would rise to 1,795 with the addition of 21 new spots.

The military-style vehicle called "The Rook" will be paid for by an urban area security grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Fredericksburg's City Council and School Board agree on the need to build a new middle school, but the way to make it happen is still unclear.

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 haven’t all signed on to the idea..

The city’s fixation on bay desalination has blinded them to solutions that would benefit the people relying on them to manage our water supply.

The City of San Antonio will host several town halls this month to discuss the proposed Fiscal Year 2023 budget, which totals $3.4 billion.

Rebates for CPS Energy customers, a property tax rate cut, and pay bumps for city employees are all part of the proposed $3.4 billion city budget the San Antonio City Council will discuss Thursday morning.

CPS Energy returned more money to the city than usual because of high summer bills, giving San Antonio its 2023 budget windfall.

A Uvalde City Council meeting lasted hours with public comment that turned heated when it came to discussion on police accountability.

Nearly a half-century after arson killed 32 people at the UpStairs Lounge, the City Council has renewed the search for the remains of four victims — three of them never identified.

Nearly a half-century after arson killed 32 people in a New Orleans gay bar, the City Council has renewed the search for the remains of four victims — three of them never identified.

City Council has announced that it is sponsoring a “Summer District Challenge” in response to a lack of blood donations in the San Antonio area.

King George approves contract, which is almost $10 million more than the $22 million it borrowed for the project in 2020.

San Antonio’s resolution does not legalize or decriminalize abortion in San Antonio. However, it does make a policy recommendation against spending city money -- outside of what is “clearly required” by state and federal law -- to catalog, collect or share with other government agencies information on instances of abortion strictly to pursue criminal investigations.

The San Antonio City Council is poised for a hot debate on a resolution supporting abortion access Tuesday afternoon.

Developers applying for a Municipal Utility District will now be charged a fee of over $18,055.12, after New Braunfels City Council approved the new ordinance.

August is tax time — when taxing jurisdictions, armed with brand-new certified values, crunch those numbers to calculate property taxes that fund yearly budgets across Texas.

A nonprofit news outlet has spent the past half year publishing more complete data on homelessness. Eric Adams’s administration says it plans to start doing the same.

The New Braunfels City Council voted to deny a 168-acre municipal utility district development agreement between the city of New Braunfels and Lennar Homes of Texas Land and Construction.

The proposed resolution would make a policy recommendation to not use city funds -- outside of what is “clearly required” by state and federal law -- to catalog, collect, or share with other government agencies information on instances of abortion strictly to pursue criminal investigations.

It may be possible to cut $2 or $3 million from the cost of the new Fredericksburg middle school, but getting down to the $57 million budgeted by City Council

The proposed resolution states, “People have a basic human right to medical services and treatment, including abortion.”

The proposed $1.4 billion municipal budget for fiscal year 2023 would be the city's largest if it's approved by the City Council in September.

Converse City Council voted unanimously last month to allow residents four garage sales...

Corpus Christi city staff is proposing a $125 bond package that would be the city's second-largest bond to date if passed by voters.

The latest one was at a city garage.

The latest one was at a city garage.

The city is also adding a $1M Trauma Recovery Center.

After serving 25 years in prison, Desmond Ricks was released in 2017 when bullet tests revealed that the evidence used to convict him was bogus.

Detroit agreed to pay $7.5 million to settle a lawsuit by a man who claimed police switched bullets to pin a murder on him in 1992. Desmond Ricks was released from prison in 2017 after 25 years, thanks to gun experts, law students at the University of Michigan and his unwavering insistence that he was innocent. Police seized a gun that belonged to Ricks' mother and said it was the murder weapon.

Converse city officials have been eager to start construction on the oft-delayed project,...

The two miniature golf courses, Putt Putt and Pirates of the Gulf, opened in the early ’90s but closed by the end of the decade.

Police Chief Peter Arredondo of Uvalde CISD told the small city's newspaper he would be resigning from the Uvalde City Council.

A look at four months of city tax revenue shows Fredericksburg’s disposable plastic bag tax is bringing in more money than expected.

Corpus Christi City Councilman Ben Molina announced in a Facebook post on Friday that he will not seek re-election in 2022.

Here's what you need to apply for a short-term rental permit and how complaints will be handled in Corpus Christi.

Uvalde’s mayor said city officials could be prosecuted for releasing details of the investigation. Pete Arredondo, the City Council member and school district police chief, was absent for the second straight meeting.

New Braunfels City Council to consider MUD petition filing fees

From July 22 through Oct. 30, if you’re not a resident of Fredericksburg or Stafford County, you will be charged $10 to park or $5 to walk into downtown’s Old

The historic homes will serve as a site of operation for the city's Living Heritage Trades Academy and Material Innovation Center.

The city election will be held Tuesday, Nov. 8.

Council members united on the urgency for access to capitol, amid complaints about their qualifications for helping small businesses.

Relatives of the victims and other members of the community also called for the ousting of Pete Arredondo, who is the police chief of the city’s school district and a newly elected council member.

The $162 million of bonds will be paid back over a period of 20 years.

Total impact fees paid by developers to NBU would more than double with the proposed update.

More than 39,000 San Antonio residents are now in a new city council district after the 10 present members of the city council unanimously adopted a new council district map Thursday.

The final decision now rests with Austin's City Manager, who is in charge of implementing...

Homeowners in San Antonio should see the city portion of their property tax bills stay the same — or even go down — this year after council increased the value of its homestead exemptions.

Without the city's aid, the Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History could have been at risk of closing.

In order to re-balance the population of the city’s 10 council districts after a decade of lopsided growth, the city council has to approve a new map using the population numbers from the 2020 U.S. Census.

The City Council in Nebraska’s capital city has rescinded an anti-discrimination measure that extended protections to sexual orientation and gender identity, just four months after unanimously approving it. The Lincoln City Council voted 4-3 Monday to rescind the February revision to the city’s fairness ordinance in the face of a successful petition effort by a conservative group that would have put the measure on the November ballot, the Lincoln Journal Star reported.

The City of San Antonio has settled a seven-year-old lawsuit of a man who died as police handcuffed him and held him down on the side of a busy highway in April 2013.

This is the second settlement the City of San Antonio has paid out in just over a month to the family of an unarmed man killed while in police custody.

Opinion: The City Council redistricting process has become, unsurprisingly, highly politicized and contentious.

City Council approved a process for distributing $5 million in ARPA funding to arts groups and individual artists in San Antonio.

The San Antonio City Council approved a new contract for San Antonio Police officers Thursday in a 8-3 vote, immediately putting the new contract into effect.

Council members’ approval is all that’s needed to implement the contract, which would last through September 2026. It includes changes to officer discipline procedures and would raise officer pay by nearly 16%.

As part of early budget discussions for FY 2023, city staff presented city council on Wednesday with an array of recommended property tax relief measures that would increase several tax exemptions for homeowners and lower the tax rate for all property in the city - whether homes, apartments, or commercial.

The population in and around San Antonio is booming — so much so that an advisory committee has created a draft of a new City Council district map based on the 2020 U.S. Census numbers.

A West Side councilwoman wants senior homeowners to be able to get a break on their property tax bills if they help organize library books, assist with classes at community centers, or do other volunteer work for the City of San Antonio.

An advisory committee made up of council appointees has created the first draft of a new council district map, based on the 2020 U.S. Census numbers. Under the proposal, nine out of 10 districts would have their boundaries shifted.

The San Antonio City Council is hoping the revamped car brand from the Back to the Future movie franchise will bring economic success back to San Antonio in the future.

“You will note...that there will be tax relief this year. And so part of that discussion is how we handle the options that will be presented by staff,” Mayor Ron Nirenberg told council members at the beginning of a Wednesday budget meeting.

Advanced Rapid Transit (ART) is essentially large buses, typically running in designated lanes. With a new bus arriving every 10 to 15 minutes, and riders paying before they get on, VIA officials say it offers the benefits of a rail line at a lower cost.

With COVID-19 cases back down to a low point, Metro Health laid its plans on Monday for growing health initiatives through September 2026 in six different areas.

Navistar held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its nearly 1 million-square-foot facility off of Highway 281 on Wednesday. The plant will ultimately employ about 650 people, 500 of whom are already on payroll.

The $326.9 million from the American Rescue Plan Act has hit the city’s financial books, but it hasn’t yet made its way the dozens of community organizations eagerly waiting for a piece of the singular financial windfall.

Hyatt wants to sell off its 1,003 room hotel through a $450M deal that would free the city from covering any of the hotel's future debt payments.

Hyatt wants to sell off its 1,003 room hotel through a $450M deal that could free the city from covering any of the hotel's future debt payments.

While pushing for a rate increase, CPS Energy had promised an outside review of its operations. Now, council members say the utility is following through.

The San Antonio City Council amended the city’s noise ordinances on Thursday to limit the hours during which construction crews can do any exterior building construction work, including demolition and excavation. The council also approved more stringent penalties for violations.

The city expects to place more than 28,000 people into either certification and degree programs through Ready to Work and subsequently get at least 15,700 of them into “high-quality,” in-demand jobs.

San Antonio home owners could see two changes to their 2022 property tax bills, which might limit how much you have to pay.

City council approved the final, $1.2 billion list of bond projects Thursday, including: money for affordable housing, expanding the city’s greenway trail system, repairing failed streets, and building fire and police stations. It now goes to voters for approval during the May 7 election.