Streets and homeless encampment cleanups are again San Antonians’ top priorities for the city budget in fiscal year 2025.
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ETC Institute presented council members with the results of the statistically valid budget survey it conducted in May with 1,083 San Antonio residents. This is theThe results were based on a combination of how respondents ranked the need and importance of various city services. Streets were the top-ranked priority for investment followed by homeless encampment cleanups, services to assist homeless people, sidewalks and police services.
The results are similar to the fiscal year 2024 budget priority survey, though homeless services and encampments were combined into a single item last year. Animal Care Services and affordable housing also dropped off the top five priorities this year, though they remained “high priority” for survey takers.
A comparison of the budget priorities surveys ahead of the FY 2024 City of San Antonio budget and the upcoming FY 2025 budgetThe survey also measured satisfaction with city services, which was last done in 2022. City staff were quick to point to a record-high 84% satisfaction rating.The city also solicited responses for a less formal budget priority survey through its SA Speak Up website, paper surveys, and even 311.
City staff members are still developing a draft budget for the 2025 fiscal year, which runs from Oct. 1, 2024 through Sep. 30, 2025. They’re expected to unveil it in mid-August, with city council members voting on a final version about a month later.“It’s one of our points of guidance here: the council goal-setting session, the ongoing policy conversations that the council has on a litany of things. The survey is important,” City Manager Erik Walsh told reporters.
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