🥐 La Panaderia is coming to Southtown, and Mr. W Fireworks is setting up shop on Galm Road.

🎃 Ghost stories at SAMA, Brick or Treat at Legoland, free outdoor movies at The Rock and Little Shop of Horrors at San Pedro Playhouse.

💧 Schertz moves to Stage 3 water restrictions, and council weighs a $16.6M Bulverde Road rebuild.

💰 Dozens of Texas agencies say they can't afford state-mandated budget cuts.

🏡 A $1.5M Far North Side home with a sand volleyball court, a Northwood split-level with a 26,000-gallon pool and a $308K Bulverde Village pick, all just listed.

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🏗️ Shovel Ready SA moves to the next committee

A proposal to prepare more San Antonio sites for business development advanced out of the City Council's Governance Committee Oct. 21.

It asks city staff to study a pilot program that would ready a small number of sites with the permitting, utility capacity and infrastructure needed to attract employers. The Economic and Workforce Development Committee will consider it next.

💧 Schertz moves to Stage 3 water restrictions

A major transmission line break forced one of the Schertz Seguin Local Government Corporation's water treatment plants offline, prompting Stage 3 water restrictions in Schertz.

Sprinklers are prohibited, and handheld watering and drip irrigation are allowed only on designated days before 8 a.m. or after 8 p.m. Washing cars, filling pools and running decorative fountains are also off-limits while repairs are underway.

🛣️ Council to weigh a $16.6M Bulverde Road rebuild

City Council is scheduled to consider a construction contract of up to $16.6 million Thursday to reconstruct Bulverde Road from Green Spring Drive to Redland Road, a 2022 bond project.

The agenda also includes up to $4.7 million for bike and pedestrian improvements on North Frio Street between Interstate 10 and Houston Street.

💰 Dozens of Texas agencies say they can't afford to make state-mandated budget cuts

In July, Texas' top elected officials directed most state agencies, appellate courts and public universities to cut spending by 3% in their base budget requests for the next two years. Gov. Greg Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and House Speaker Dustin Burrows said those reductions will help Texas hold a "strong fiscal position" by expanding property tax relief and maintaining public education funding.

Yet dozens of agency leaders have warned that the cuts, totaling hundreds of millions of dollars, are not sustainable. Texas Department of Criminal Justice officials asked lawmakers to restore $287 million to avoid a loss of more than 1,300 agency employees.

The cuts are slated for fiscal years 2028 and 2029, although there is no guarantee that the legislature will approve such cuts, said Rahul Sreenivasan, a fiscal policy analyst at the nonpartisan think tank Texas 2036. Read more. →

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