County Judge Peter Sakai asked colleagues to come together for its implementation, but Commissioner Tommy Calvert signaled he plans to keep fighting.
Bria Woods / San Antonio Reportfor the first time in more than two decades, signed off on a nearly $3 billion budget for the 2023-2024 fiscal year Tuesday.from previous years, how to adequately fund law enforcement, by uniting on a plan to add 50 new sheriff’s deputies over the course of the fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1.
“In terms of the sheriff’s deputies, this is one of my most proud moments,” Calvert said Tuesday. “But I will have to abstain on this budget because of the stains on this budget.”They also voted to keep the tax rate the same as the current year, $.299999 cents per $100 of valuation. The overall 2024 budget includes $751 million for operating costs, $865 million for capital projects and $164 million for debt service.
Calvert, who has served on the court since 2015, said Tuesday that the county was costing itself money by not adequately funding previously approved projects. For example,an Advance Manufacturing Training Center at Brooks that he said needs more money to begin construction. On Tuesday, Commissioner Rebeca Clay-Flores , who was singled out for criticism by some of Calvert’s allies, chimed in from the dais to disagree with his assessment of the budget process.
“We have majority approval, and regardless of how we think this happened today, majority rules,” Sakai said from the dais after Tuesday’s budget vote.
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