Proponents said elected officials and the business community have another reason to oppose Prop A: to protect the city manager's job.
, voters approved changes that capped the tenure and compensation for future San Antonio city managers and changed rules regarding arbitration for the firefighters union’s labor contract.of those tenure and salary reforms, City Manager Erik Walsh is the first to serve under them. City managers can serve eight years and their compensation is capped to 10 times the amount of the lowest paid, full-time city employee. Under the current city charter, his last year would be 2027.
Elected officials should be focused on what’s good for the community, not the city manager, Alex Birnel, advocacy director for MOVE Texas, said at the press conference. “When we do politics this way, it makes it crystal clear the need for genuine grassroots efforts that fight for people in San Antonio on critical issues in our daily lives, not merely about one man’s job in 2027,” Birnel said. “How many people will lose work as a result of arrest by 2027? These are the things that we should be concerned about.”
The San Antonio SAFE PAC, which is allied with chambers of commerce and business leaders in opposing Prop A, is “wholly focused on defeating this amendment because we think that [expanding cite-and-release] is bad policy and bad for the city,” said Kelton Morgan, the PAC’s political consultant. The idea that opposition is based on the timing of charter amendment elections and other city priorities is an “obscure conspiracy theory,” Morgan said. “It sounds to me like someone wants to change the subject because they’re losing.”, more than 10 times what ACT 4 SA has spent, to sway voters against Prop A.
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