SAN ANTONIO \u2014 This morning Mayor Gina Ortiz-Jones gave a sobering assessment with the city’s 21 million dollar expected budget shortfall.<\/p>\n
“We are in a difficult fiscal environment and it will only get more difficult,\u201d said Mayor Ortiz-Jones.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s why officials at SAPD say workforce cuts are on the horizon. We’re told the proposed 2026 plan reduces the number of officers hired for 2026.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s take a look at the numbers over the years. In 2024, the budget allowed for 100 additional officers. That number dropped to 65 this year. Next year, it worsens to 53 positions.<\/p>\n
But when you ask Police Chief William McManus about the hiring reduction, he has a rosier overall picture\u2014citing increased funding for the PD, Park Police and the Arrestee Processing Center since 2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cBottom line here this budget reflects real investment in safety and in our officers,\u201d said McManus.<\/p>\n
So will less officers on the streets make us less safe? SAPD says no\u2014when you consider the total number of officers to be hired over the next three years.<\/p>\n
The mayor says cuts are never easy. But if the city doesn\u2019t address the shortfall next year, the deficit will only grow\u2014to the tune of 220 million dollars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2014 This morning Mayor Gina Ortiz-Jones gave a sobering assessment with the city’s 21 million dollar…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":183507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,17453,103152,103151,21469,103150,7202,7203,7725,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,103149],"class_list":["post-189128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-america","tag-budget-shortfall","tag-fiscal-environment","tag-hiring-reduction","tag-mayor-gina-ortiz-jones","tag-police-chief-william-mcmanus","tag-san-antonio","tag-sanantonio","tag-sapd","tag-texas","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-workforce-cuts"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}