charter amendments

City Manager Erik Walsh will make $461,000 in his base salary beginning in January.

Council members will vote on giving Erik Walsh a salary of $461,000. His current maximum base salary is $374,000, which is ten times the lowest-paid salaried city employee.

San Antonio voters approved council and mayoral raises, longer term lengths for council members and the mayor, and removed the salary and tenure caps for the city manager position, among other items.

Council pay, term lengths, ethics revisions, and more.

An October poll from UTSA's Center for Public Opinion Research found major increases in support for Propositions C and E once voters were presented with exact ballot language, compared with much lower support in September when voters were given descriptions of the propositions.

Prop C would eliminate salary and tenure caps voters placed on the city manager in 2018.

Prop C would eliminate tenure and salary caps for the city manager voters approved in 2018.

Also, the 2025 San Antonio mayoral race is still anyone’s to win after UTSA’s poll found that nearly 70% of San Antonio voters either were not familiar with the candidates or did not know who they would support.

San Antonio voters will decide on six changes to the city’s charter on Election Day, November 5th.The proposed amendments would make the following changes to the city’s charter, which is similar to the city’s constitution, an overall governance document.Gordon Hartman is a tri-chair of RenewSA, a local political action committee which launched a campaign supporting all six amendments to San Antonio’s charter this week.

There are six finalized proposed city charter amendments on the ballot this November.