The San Antonio City Council convened a budget work session on Tuesday, September 2, 2025, at 9 a.m. to hear presentations on the proposed Fiscal Year 2026 budgets for the Airport and Development Services departments. The meeting included detailed overviews of departmental operations, financials, capital projects, and program updates. Council members posed questions, expressed support for various initiatives, and proposed potential amendments to the budget. The meeting recessed into executive session at 11:30 a.m. and reconvened briefly in open session at 12:38 p.m., with no official action taken, before adjourning at 12:39 p.m.
Good morning. The time is now 9 a.m. on Tuesday, uh September 2nd, 2025, and the City of San Antonio budget work session is called to order. Madam Clerk, please call the roll. Councilmember Councilmember Corps. Councilmember Castillo Angiano. Councilmember Viegran. Here. Councilmember Mungia. President. Councilmember Castillo. Councilmember Galván. Councilmember Aldarete Gabito. Councilmember Meza Gonzalez. Councilmember Spears. Councilmember White. Mayor Jones. Here. Mayor, we have Quorum. Great. This meeting is to hear about budgets for the airport and development services departments. Eric, over to you. Thank you, Mayor. Good morning, Mayor and Council. So we're going to start off with Jesus and the airport 2026 proposed budget, and then transition over to a mean uh for our development services proposed budget presentation. Thank you. Council. Happy belated Labor Day. My name is Sushou Sines, Director of the Airports here for the City of San Antonio. Very proud and honored to serve for this city and all that we've been able to accomplish. Today's annual budget presentation. It's a culmination of our team's contributions, their efforts, and the amazing commitment to our city. A big thank you to all of our team members for all that they do every day. And a very it's a very talented group of leaders that are here with me today here. Many are at the airport, but really talented group of leaders that are behind me here to support as well. So I give a lot of thanks to them. Today's presentation is going to encompass a department overview with a summary of our team's overall makeup at each of our two airports with emphasis on this specific strategic priorities we perform to provide the best level of service to our citizens. A high level overview of our department's proposed budget and capital improvement program, and then I'll close out with a review of our grants program, some important service initiatives, and the summary of our 2026 strategic initiatives and activities. This paved the path and provides clear and adaptive direction for us to accomplish predetermined activities and initiatives, as I mentioned earlier. We remain focused on our vision, delivering an authentic and elevated travel experience for the 11 million passengers that are traveling through our airports each year. It's beginning to the separating of us as one of the top performing U.S. medium airports in the country. How do we do that? We do that through our mission, and that's delivering the San Antonio experience through transformation and talent. That's how we get the things accomplished that we need to get accomplished. I could sit here and talk to you for hours about the things that we've been able to accomplish in 2025, and I could sit here and talk to you for hours about what we're going to do in 2026. I'm going to highlight some of the big things because if not, um, as a city manager says, hey, get Jesus out of the way because he's going to continue to talk about things and we need to move on. I remind everyone we're an enterprise fund. We're funded by tenant and passenger user fees and federal grants governed by the federal law. And we substantiate ourselves by the revenues that must support our overall airport operations and everything that we do.