San Antonio City Council

I'm Marian Navarro.

San Antonio City Council approved a resolution Thursday directing the city to attempt to stop or prevent efforts by Homeland Security and ICE on the creation of detention centers within the city.

TPR's Joey Palacios reports.

The resolution instructs the city manager and the city attorney to take action, support, or coordinate in community efforts to prevent an ICE detention facility from being constructed in San Antonio.

But the city attorney said yesterday that they hope that the friction that they're providing with this lawsuit and the scale of the impact that would be found by the assessment would be large enough that ultimately DHS would abandon plans for the facility altogether.

Something interesting here in your reporting, and I think it's worth noting here, that San Antonio City Council hasn't been entirely or I should say unanimously on board with this prevention strategy.

Tell us about some of that dissent.

Yeah, so we have a councilman for District 10, Mark White, and District 9, Misty Spears.

The council approved the increase eight to three after delaying an earlier proposal this summer.

Meanwhile, CPS Energy has put off plans to seek another rate increase from San Antonio City Council.

The utility says it could revisit the issue next year.

TPR's Brian Kirkpatrick reports.

Early voting begins October nineteenth.

San Antonio City Council will discuss and take possible action this week on a council consideration request that would have two local utilities provide impact assessments on the proposed East Side Ice processing facility.

The request would push CPS Energy and the San Antonio Water System to perform an independent environmental study for the facility, which would hold up to fifteen hundred people.

The study would assess impacts on water, sewage, public safety, and more.

The first day of early voting will begin October 19th.

San Antonio City Council has recognized October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

The city and county's Domestic Violence Commission was formed in 2019 to help close gaps in services for victims.

Commission co-chair and District Judge Monique Diaz says the need remains urgent.

And, you know, I tell people, in my opinion, this is not an El Paso exclusive challenge.

I mean, Bexar County, three out of the 10 San Antonio City Council members have been arrested for DWI.

You know, in the state of Wisconsin, your first DWI isn't even a crime.

It's a civil infraction.

San Antonio homeowners will pay a higher city property tax rate beginning October 1st, following approval of the city's $4.4 billion budget.

The San Antonio City Council approved a 3.9% property tax rate increase earlier this month, marking the city's first property tax hike in 33 years.

The rate will increase from about 54 cents to 56 cents per $100 of taxable value.

For the average homeowner with a homestead exemption, that works out to about $3 more per month.

So in the reason that is and I wrote about this in the Texas Tech newsletter this week, he knows in his campaign knows this and when is when counties and cities all across the state are having to raise taxes.

So people are hearing this message from, you know, the San Antonio City Council, the Harris County commissioners about, hey, our taxes are going up and they're saying, hey, it's the state's fault.

And so, you know, and some are more aggressive than others.

Adrian Garcia, the Harris County judge or Harris County commissioner said, He, you know, had this press conference with Briones and Rodney Ellis down in Houston.