City council members met to discuss the possibility of zero-based budgeting in the city.
Councilmember Marc Whyte is proposing a zero-based budgeting plan, which currently has support from multiple councilmembers including those running for mayor.SAN ANTONIO — On Thursday, San Antonio city council began discussing the budget for the 2025 fiscal year, with each councilmember outlining their priorities for funding.
"Right now we're getting a bunch of numbers thrown at us and we're looking at the various departments in the city and what they spent last year and basically just adding to their budget," Whyte said."But we're not looking back at what they've been spending money on, and is it working? We need to go back to zero where we see if what we've already been spending money on is actually producing results.
"It is going to be more time consuming and city staff is going to have to do the work to justify each expense in each department," he said."And that is going to be tough for them. But that's what we need to do to find inefficiencies, wasted dollars so that we can better put to use the citizens tax dollars." "It's about eliminating duplication," he said.
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