Increase In Minimum Wage for Bexar County Employees to $15 Per Hour Living Wage

Accomplishments

Mission Accomplished

May 14, 2019

Commissioners Court increased the minimum wage for Bexar County Employees from $11.66 since FY 2015-2016.

Accomplishments

Mission Accomplished

Increase In Minimum Wage for Bexar County Employees to $15 Per Hour Living Wage

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Second Chance Job Fair

Urban Farm Program

Outside Agency Funding

Inner City Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone Number 11

Comanche Park Land Acquisition

The Public Theater

Greater Love Missionary Baptist Church Community Center

Zernona Black Community Center –Mount Zion Church

Disparity and Availability Study

Public Ownership of Toyota Field

Urban Farm and AgriLife Extension Service Facility

Contributed $500,000 to the San Antonio Botanical Garden’s 8-acre Expansion.

Funded stormwater-related projects at the DoSeum in the amount of $400,000.

Recruitment of New IKEA store to fill untapped retail gaps in NE Bexar County

Witte’s Bexar County Riparian Habitat

AT&T Center Renovations, $100 Million

Kirby Bexar County Animal Shelter, $820,000 for First Phase

Negotiated the refinancing of Bexar County Debt

Frost Tower— $3 Million Economic Development Agreement

Houston Street Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone

Voted to award $50,000 of Inner City TIRZ

Inner City TIRZ funding to redevelop the Merchant Ice Building—Dignowity Hill Neighborhood

Development of the Veterans Transition and Conference Center—Harvard Place Eastlawn Neighborhood

Recruitment & Transformation of the site of the former Sterling Building

Recruitment of ChildSafe multi-use complex to the Eastside—Cherry Hill/Eastwood Village Neighborhood

$3.2 Million Fire and Rescue Facility

Project Converse Moving Forward TIRZ No. 1

$2.8 Million for Menger Creek Project

2016 Resiliency in Communities after Stress and Trauma Federal Grant

Dash and Body Cameras for the Sheriff’s Department

Bexar County IT Initiative and SA Works

FM 1516 Expansion Project, $23.5 Million

Wurzbach Parkway—Alamo Area Metropolitan Planning Organization Funded

Competitive Salaries and Health Insurance Benefits for Sheriff Department

Increase In Minimum Wage for Bexar County Employees to $15 Per Hour Living Wage

88th Annual LULAC National Convention

NAACP National Convention Sponsorship

Growing Bexar County and San Antonio to Tier I IT Incubator Community

Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Spot Parking Garage and Multi-use Facility

Wheatley Heights Sports Complex—Cherry Hill/Eastwood Village Neighborhood

Southeast Baptist Hospital with Methodist’s new Bishop Ernest T. Dixon, Jr. Clinic

New Life for Hot Wells Ruins

1275 New Jobs through Direct Foreign Investment

Bexar County Reentry Services Center, a one-stop resource for inmates being released.

Bexar County Reentry Council Board

2nd Chance Job Fair

University Health System—Dr. Robert L.M. Hilliard Clinic

UIW Bexar County Clinical Skills Center, $1.5 Million

Competitive Salaries and Health Insurance Benefits for Sheriff Department

51 Acres along Loop 1604 and Rocket Lane

Randolph AFB—Saving Bexar County’s 6th largest Employer and Protecting Its Mission

Creator and strongest elected official advocate for Housing bond

University Health System Property Tax Exemption for Seniors

Bexar County Budgets

Reducing Bexar County Taxes