Oct 7, 2026 · 41 min · 11 segments
Political consultant Andrew Solano talks with the ENside Politics team about the coming fight at City Council over whether to once again raise San Antonio's tax rate to underwrite a big bond package…
Greg JeffersonHostMolly SmithHost
By now, it's like, what, four weeks since city council, a fractured city council, approved the first property tax rate increase in more than 30 years.
And two days from now, this being right around 11 o'clock Tuesday morning, In two days, city council is likely, I think, correct me if I'm wrong, likely to approve a rate increase for the San Antonio water
system.
In a period where Everybody is kind of reeling from
nobody's
So general obligation bonds, this is how big cities like San Antonio pay for big capital projects, big infrastructure improvement projects.
And he landed on that number because it would not require the city to raise property taxes.
And I think the city manager has seen kind of how divisive the budget session was.
It came down to the last minute where they were still kind of coming up with these plans proposals of what to do so i think he thought let's just not let's just not have this fight let's so is to
avoid just the fight like don't don't get admired because i mean and it kind of makes sense because and andrew i don't know if you've seen this before but i would guess uh you know any kind of special election whether it's a bond or some kind of charter revision if it starts with a council fight right, it's probably not going to do very well at the
By now, it's like, what, four weeks since city council, a fractured city council, approved the first property tax rate increase in more than 30 years.
And two days from now, this being right around 11 o'clock Tuesday morning, In two days, city council is likely, I think, correct me if I'm wrong, likely to approve a rate increase for the San Antonio water
system.
In a period where Everybody is kind of reeling from
nobody's
So general obligation bonds, this is how big cities like San Antonio pay for big capital projects, big infrastructure improvement projects.
And he landed on that number because it would not require the city to raise property taxes.
And I think the city manager has seen kind of how divisive the budget session was.
It came down to the last minute where they were still kind of coming up with these plans proposals of what to do so i think he thought let's just not let's just not have this fight let's so is to
avoid just the fight like don't don't get admired because i mean and it kind of makes sense because and andrew i don't know if you've seen this before but i would guess uh you know any kind of special election whether it's a bond or some kind of charter revision if it starts with a council fight right, it's probably not going to do very well at the
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