City Council passes $3.4B budget, including bill credits to CPS customers

– The San Antonio City Council passed a $3.4 billion budget on Thursday afternoon for the 2023 fiscal year, which includes pay bumps for employees, dozens of new police officer positions, and a property tax cut.

While Viagran joined colleagues in approving related votes on the tax rate and smaller portions of the budget, Bravo continued to vote against them in protest. Her proposal was included in the final budget with $9.5 million of funding for FY 2023 and $9.15 for FY 2024. City staff proposed sending $50 million of the money back to ratepayers. Their most recent plan, which was passed as part of the budget, transfers $7.5 million to a low-income assistance program, and the other $42.5 million would go back to customers as bill credits.

Instead, opponents on the council pushed to spend the money on helping the city and its residents prepare for future extreme temperatures instead, through programs like weatherizing homes or planting trees. Voting against it were: Mayor Ron Nirenberg, District 4 Councilwoman Adriana Rocha-Garcia, District 6 Councilwoman Melissa Cabello Havrda, District 8 Councilman Manny Pelaez, and District 10 Councilman Clayton Perry.

In the first year, the city is budgeting $9.5 million - using a portion of the $75 million extra CPS Energy revenue that staff had originally earmarked for an aquifer protection program.before the CPS Energy windfall.READ MORE: Proposed SA budget includes pay raises up to 20% as city tries to match market rates

Roughly two-thirds of the city employees are looking at 7% raises, including contract coordinators, management analysts, and planners. Another third would get raises between 7% and 12%, like veterinarian techs, licensed vocational nurses, 311 customer service representatives, and solid waste collectors.

Source: Energy Industry News (energyindustrynews.net)

Of course it was going to get approve. It had a pay bump for them. Kinda like Congress approve there own pay bump.

Reduce code enforcement size as well as management they are useless

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