Rebates for CPS Energy customers, a property tax rate cut, and pay bumps for city employees are all part of the proposed $3.4 billion city budget the San Antonio City Council will discuss Thursday morning.
City Manager Erik Walsh and other top city staff will present the council with their recommendations, which will serve as the rough draft of the budget council is expected to pass in mid-September. Their budget proposal also includes investments in capital projects at the airport, convention center, Alamodome, and numerous voter-approved bond projects.
Council members would have to vote on that proposal before September, ahead of the rest of the budget, in order for the money to make it into October bills. Officials said they conducted a market analysis of all civilian jobs in the city and a survey of city employees. As a result, staff is proposing a 5% wage bump across the board, plus an additional 2 to 7% market rate increase, depending on the job.
“I have a son that works for the largest grocery store in town, picking up carts and bagging groceries. And he’s making more over there than a lot of employees who work in the city at that level,” Walsh said. “So we need the right size it because we’re in competition with everybody.”To stay below a state-imposed revenue cap, the city also plans to lower the property tax rate by 1.67 cents per $100 of value.
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