Good afternoon.

The time is now 2 03 p.m.

on Wednesday, September 17th, and the City of San Antonio budget work session is called to order.

Madam Clerk, please call the roll.

Councilmember Corps.

Councilmember Castillo Anguiano.

Councilmember Villa Gran.

Councilmember Mungia.

Councilmember Castillo.

Councilmember Galvan.

Councilmember Alderete Gavito.

Here.

Councilmember Mesa Gonzalez.

President.

Councilmember Spears.

Councilmember White.

Mayor Jones.

Here.

Mayor, we have Quorum.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

This meeting is here about potential amendments.

The FY26 proposed budget.

Eric, over to you.

Thank you, Mayor.

Good afternoon, Mayor and Council.

So Justina's going to walk you through a very, very short presentation.

Hand it back to me.

I'm going to cover some of the high points in the follow-up memo you got today.

And then I'll turn it back over to you, Mayor, for the for the conversation.

Good afternoon, Mayor and City Council.

My name is Justina Tate.

I'm the budget director for the city of San Antonio.

Wanted to provide a brief overview of the budget amendments that are that were included in the list last night, as well as uh potential reductions and resources to fund those.

So there are total of six budget amendments included in the general fund for a total over two years of about 11.5 million dollars.

This includes increasing uh $750 for base salary for a total of $6.8 million.

This restores funding, report partial funding to install new radar feedback and traffic signs as well as flash stop flashing stop signs for a total of 500,000.

It would fund an additional 15 new police officers for patrol for a total of 40 officers.

This would be about 3.1 million dollars over the two years, and restores funding in the amount of a million dollars for minor repairs.

The last two amendments uh include restoring one position for the vacant buildings program to be added to the development services department, and finally includes three million dollars in one-time funding for street lights.

Now this next slide provides a summary of the resources to fund these general fund uh amendments.

This would include eliminating the inner city incentive transfer in fiscal year 2027, as well as moving the Alamo Promise funding to ready to work in fiscal year 2026.

For revenue enhancements, uh this would include increasing the parks environmental fee by 50 cents, going from a dollar fifty per month to two dollars, two dollars per month, and this would generate about four million dollars in capacity in the general fund.

So it would be about eight million dollars over the two years.

So in total, uh these additional reductions as well as revenue enhancements would generate about 11.5 million dollars of capacity in the general fund.

And finally, uh the last slide just illustrates the restricted funds and capital budget amendments.

So all the restricted funds would include uh a 750 base salary adjustment for uh personnel positions that are funded through those restricted funds, and finally, uh the capital budget would include a million dollars for each council district for capital improvement projects for a total of ten million dollars.

That concludes uh my presentation, and I'm gonna turn it back to the city manager.

Thank you so much.

Thank you, Justina.

Um so we sent the memo to the council last night um that outlines what what uh justina just walked through.

I did want to I did want to point out that in the memo, and you saw in the in the memo last night that we did not make any assumptions on agency funding.

There was a lot of conversation yesterday, so that's one of the items that we're looking for additional clarification from the council today.

And then um, and then the second memo that was sent earlier was a little bit more uh detailed follow-up that came out of yesterday's conversation, specifically some questions around some adjustments to potential revenue out of the health department.

Um, and you've got that there, and Claude is here uh to answer any questions.

Um, and then the follow-up specifically around uh several questions that uh the mayor had and and uh and several of you.

Any questions, and then the follow-up specifically around uh several questions that uh the mayor had and and uh and several of you I did want to point out that we did outline uh to to you all's uh comments yesterday uh a process for the use of uh ready to work dollars for Alan Promise, and uh Alex and Mike Ramsey worked on on that description, and I just wanted to highlight that because that's that was a big topic of some of the comments that that were uh talked that were mentioned yesterday that that we would treat these uh uh uh problem animal promise scholarships that are funded with the city dollars from ready to work, uh, but would not be considered ready to work participants, and as part of ready a part of Alamo Promise now, uh the Alamo Colleges provides to the city uh because we fund them, uh the names, the addresses, the demographic information, the number and dollar amount of the scholarships, as well as the total number of Alamos promised scholarships.

We did uh we are proposing to add that is terms of the reporting to the city so that we can share with the council and the public use of those dollars that the program and study chosen by the uh students, the graduation rate uh of the students, the list of graduates and graduation dates, and and then finally the list of job placements, wages, and higher dates.

They won't be counted as ready to work, but that's still important information.

I think several of you pointed that out yesterday, and we want to make it as easy as possible for Alamo Colleges as they administer their funds for for um for the program.

The rest of them are pretty self-explanatory, Mayor.