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The AI CowboysThe LedgerSan Antonio budget machine

Proposed FY2027 · not adopted

to the Sep 17 vote

Your bill

A household receipt. Not a $1.76 billion abstraction.

Type the taxable value from your Bexar CAD notice. We scale the city’s proposed General Fund mix to that house. CPS and sales tax are shown separately — they are not inside the homestead check.

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Find the taxable value on your Bexar CAD notice, after the homestead exemption.

City Hall wants, this year

+$49

about +$4.10 a month from this house.

City Hall says $2.95/month for the “average homeowner.” On this taxable value the arithmetic is $4.10. We show both.[1][6]

Where your city tax goes

Human brains bounce off $1.76 billion. They do not bounce off a household bill. This is how the General Fund spends, scaled to your city property-tax payment at the rate on the sliders[1].

$1,302 / year

City property tax on this taxable value. Not CPS. Not sales tax.

  • Police 38%$501
  • Fire 26%$334
  • Parks 4%$53
  • Streets 6%$83
  • Libraries 3%$43
  • Animal Care 2%$28
  • Senior & HHS 2%$23
  • Everything else 18%$238

Police + Fire are 64% of this mix. Zero Parks and you have not touched the problem.

Where City Hall’s $100 comes from

  • CPS Energy$31
  • Property tax$28
  • Sales tax$24
  • All other GF revenue$17

Per $100 of General Fund revenue. CPS Energy’s $547.8M is larger than the property tax. Your homestead rate is not how most of this budget is paid.

Council district

Eleven votes. Pick yours. We’ll write the ask.