{"id":9605,"date":"2025-08-21T15:09:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T20:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2025\/08\/21\/majority-on-san-antonio-city-council-reject-mayors-item-calling-for-pause-on-spurs-negotiations\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T15:09:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T20:09:12","slug":"majority-on-san-antonio-city-council-reject-mayors-item-calling-for-pause-on-spurs-negotiations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2025\/08\/21\/majority-on-san-antonio-city-council-reject-mayors-item-calling-for-pause-on-spurs-negotiations\/","title":{"rendered":"Majority on San Antonio City Council reject mayor&#8217;s item calling for pause on Spurs negotiations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>         San Antonio Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones\u2019 agenda item calling for a \u201cstrategic pause\u201d in negotiations with Spurs Sports &amp; Entertainment for a new downtown NBA arena failed on a 4-7 vote Thursday in front of a packed house. As of press time, council still hasn&#8217;t voted on a the meeting&#8217;s other item: a tentative agreement with the San Antonio Spurs&#8217; ownership group that would ask the city to pony up\u00a0$489 million to help build the $1.3 billion sports facility.\u00a0 Despite a full court press from Jones to win support for a pause \u2014 including hijacking a Greater Chamber of Commerce press conference and numerous media appearances \u2014 council voted on her proposal with no discussion from the dais.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Antonio Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones\u2019 agenda item calling for a \u201cstrategic pause\u201d in negotiations with Spurs Sports &amp; Entertainment for a new downtown NBA arena failed on a 4-7 vote Thursday in front of a packed house. As of press time, council still hasn&#8217;t voted on a the meeting&#8217;s other item: a tentative agreement [&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\/9605"}],"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=9605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}