Posted By Sanford Nowlin on Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 9:11 AM click to enlarge James Dobbins Black Lives Matter supporters listen to a speaker during one of many protests against police violence held in San Antonio last year. City council on Thursday cleared a pair of significant charter amendments to appear on the ballot in the May 1 citywide election. Those amendments, which needed council s vote to move forward, will determine whether to strip collective bargaining powers from San Antonio s police union and whether to give the city the ability to use bond money to fund development of more affordable housing. Recently formed police accountability group Fix SAPD landed the first initiative on the ballot through a petition drive th
San Antonio voters to decide fate of police union collective bargaining power
City Council orders election for Ch. 174 repeal the day before negotiations scheduled to begin
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San Antonio – The city council voted Thursday to order a special election for the repeal of Chapter 174 - the state law that gives the union its collective bargaining power. The council’s action was required after the city clerk this month counted more than 20,000 signatures gathered by the group “Fix SAPD” to get the measure onto the ballot.
The vote would only affect the police union’s ability to pursue a contract on behalf of all its members. The fire union’s collective bargaining ability would remain intact, according to the ballot language.
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District 10 Councilman Clayton Perry, left, talks with Alan Montemayor, right, a supporter of the Climate Action and Adaption Plan, in pre-coronavirus days, before the start of the council’s regular meeting, Oct. 17, 2019. The council voted 10-1 that day to pass the plan with Perry the lone vote against it. Thursday, the council is set to vote on hiring a firm to promote the plan.Jerry Lara /Staff photographer
San Antonians will have the opportunity to vote on City Council members May 1 and also will make decisions on two major charter amendments: whether to essentially gut the police officers’ union and whether to give the city more power on how to use bond money, including on affordable housing.
San Antonio May election ballot will include a choice to repeal collective bargaining for San Antonio's police officers, a result of a Fix SAPD petition.
Five months after Darrell Zemault Sr. was killed by San Antonio police officers, SAPD has allowed his family to view some of the body cam footage. But the family members say they have been left with “more questions than answers” after viewing the footage.