{"id":221781,"date":"2025-09-12T20:39:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T20:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/221781\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T20:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T20:39:11","slug":"councilmembers-challenge-mayor-on-policy-proposal-process-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/221781\/","title":{"rendered":"Councilmembers challenge mayor on policy proposal process changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO &#8211; A simmering dispute over how local City Councilmembers can bring forward new policy ideas resurfaced this week, as four councilmembers filed a joint memorandum challenging Mayor Jones\u2019 handling of the Council Consideration Request process.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Councilmembers Teri Castillo (District 5), Marina Alderete Gavito (District 7), Misty Spears (District 9), and Marc Whyte (District 10) submitted a \u201cFour Signature Memo\u201d making sure that CCRs, which are policy proposals submitted by councilmembers, cannot be discarded or labeled \u201cexpired\u201d when new council terms begin.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe CCR process exists to ensure that Councilmembers may elevate issues of importance to their districts and to the city as a whole,\u201d the group said in a joint statement. \u201cWork does not pause or restart with a change in administration, as there is no precedent for doing so.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The memo comes weeks after Mayor Jones suggested that older CCRs from previous council terms might no longer be valid and should be restarted under the new council. She also previously proposed routing CCRs through the city manager and city attorney before councilmembers could formally file them. These recommendations prompted pushback from several councilmembers concerned that the changes would give unelected staff outsized influence over policymaking.<\/p>\n<p>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/news4sanantonio.com\/news\/local\/mayor-jones-halts-proposal-to-change-council-policy-process-amid-pushback-marc-whyte-maria-teri-castillo-local-government\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/news4sanantonio.com\/news\/local\/mayor-jones-halts-proposal-to-change-council-policy-process-amid-pushback-marc-whyte-maria-teri-castillo-local-government\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mayor Jones halts proposal to change council policy process amid pushback<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Councilmembers behind Thursday\u2019s memo argue that the mayor\u2019s recent reversal on CCRs is inconsistent with earlier guidance. They note that the current CCR ordinance does not reference \u201cexpiration\u201d and that any changes to the process must be approved by a full council vote.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThese sudden reversals contradict the earlier guidance and raise concerns about a lack of good faith in the process,\u201d the councilmembers wrote. \u201cSan Antonio families deserve action, not obstruction.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mayor Jones has said she intends to revisit the CCR ordinance after the new year, but for now, the city will continue operating under its existing rules. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO &#8211; A simmering dispute over how local City Councilmembers can bring forward new policy ideas resurfaced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":221782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,120572,119118,120573,58976,39895,94038,120571,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-221781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ccr-process","10":"tag-city-manager","11":"tag-council-terms","12":"tag-councilmembers","13":"tag-mayor-jones","14":"tag-memorandum","15":"tag-policy-proposals","16":"tag-san-antonio","17":"tag-sanantonio","18":"tag-texas","19":"tag-tx","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115193260611391555","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221781","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=221781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}