$200 million expansion<\/a> would look like \u2014 many of them asking questions about who’s footing the bill.<\/p>\nSan Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo CEO Cody Davenport lead the presentation, explaining that visitor taxes would cover the cost of the expansion.<\/p>\n
He also shared what the project’s impact could have on San Antonio:<\/p>\n
In one weekend, the NCAA Final Four brings in roughly $400 million. Expanding the rodeo ground’s facility’s could bring in an additional $385 million a year, not including the $330 million that comes in during the rodeo in February.<\/p>\n
With new facilities come new jobs. People who showed up at the meeting made it clear they want to see those jobs filled with local workers.<\/p>\n
“People need to pay their bills,” one woman said. “That’s why we have so much homeless and whatever because people can’t pay.”<\/p>\n
“We would want locals involved in this,” Davenport said firmly. “One thing — I want to work with people I know in the area. So, I want locals inside of this thing too. I don’t wanna go to big contractors from out of state and stuff like that if i have control over that.”<\/p>\n
Citizens also asked whether or not Proposition A, which calls for voters to approve an increase to visitor taxes, needs Proposition B \u2014 which will allow for a new Spurs arena.<\/p>\n
Davenport said the two are independent from each other.<\/p>\n
This is not the last town hall to discuss Propositions A and B. Davenport said there will be another one led by the county on Oct. 1. It will happen on the coliseum grounds as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO – San Antonio rodeo officials gave a ‘Round Up’ of what a possible expansion of the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":232872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-233285","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-san-antonio","10":"tag-sanantonio","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115218473862389844","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233285","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=233285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}