{"id":9556,"date":"2025-08-14T17:10:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T22:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2025\/08\/14\/slowdown-in-police-hiring-becomes-point-of-contention-in-san-antonios-proposed-city-budget\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T17:10:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T22:10:27","slug":"slowdown-in-police-hiring-becomes-point-of-contention-in-san-antonios-proposed-city-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2025\/08\/14\/slowdown-in-police-hiring-becomes-point-of-contention-in-san-antonios-proposed-city-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Slowdown in police hiring becomes point of contention in San Antonio&#8217;s proposed city budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>      San Antonio has asked its police and fire departments along with Animal Care Services to cut their spending by 1% over the next two years to help cover the city&#8217;s pending $172.62 million budget deficit, City Manager Erik Walsh told City Council Thursday. Even so, the budget cuts being asked of various city departments aren&#8217;t nearly as severe as they could have been, thanks to city-owned CPS Energy, which will contribute $70 million to city coffers over the next two years by selling excess power to nearby municipalities. San Antonio residents also shouldn&#8217;t expect see property tax increases over the next two years in response to the deficit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Antonio has asked its police and fire departments along with Animal Care Services to cut their spending by 1% over the next two years to help cover the city&#8217;s pending $172.62 million budget deficit, City Manager Erik Walsh told City Council Thursday. Even so, the budget cuts being asked of various city departments aren&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9556"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}