North East ISD adopts lower tax rate for FY 2025-26
During its Sept. 8 meeting, the North East ISD board of trustees voted to adopt its tax rate for the 2025-26 school year.
The gist: In a unanimous decision, the board voted to adopt the total tax rate of $0.9822 per $100 valuation, including a maintenance and operations tax rate of $0.6822 per $100 valuation, which will fund the general operating fund, and an interest and sinking rate of $0.3000 per $100 valuation, which will fund the debt service fund. The rate is composed of a $0.63 compressed rate for the state, plus $0.5 for enrichment.
The background: The adoption of the tax rate concludes NEISD’s budget preparations for the 2025-26 school year, such as the adoption of a $1.037 billion total budget in June.
Alamo Area Rape Crisis Center celebrates 50 years serving San Antonio
Alamo Area Rape Crisis Center—a local nonprofit organization that supports victims of sexual assault in the San Antonio area—celebrated its 50-year anniversary Sept. 9.
What you need to know: The RCC provides comprehensive services to victims of sexual assault while doing community outreach.
The nonprofit organization offers crisis intervention, counseling services and client advocacy, according to its website. The organization also has a Bexar County Sexual Assault Response Team that works directly with law enforcement to enhance the quality of services provided to survivors of sexual violence and their families, according to the RCC's website.
What the experts say: RCC CEO Audra Atzger said that the future of the RCC relies heavily on the continued support of the community.
“We’ve had a great loss of funding across city, state and federal levels,” she said. “We need support now more than ever.”
Two to three sexual assault or abuse incidents occur each day in the San Antonio—further intensifying the need for residents to step up and help, Atzger said.
The project is expected to begin mid-September and be completed by early 2026.
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More fried chicken options are available in North San Antonio, thanks to the expansion of a new Texas-based fast food chain. Urban Bird Hot Chicken officially opened on Sept. 4, restaurant staff told Community Impact.
The new eatery is situated at 22106 Hwy. 281, Ste. 102, near TPC Parkway.
Additionally, the chain plans to open two more San Antonio locations, one at La Cantera and another on the city’s west side, according to the restaurant's website.
A San Antonio-based card and hobby shop is headed to the Hill Country with a second location opening on the horizon.
What you need to know: Heroes Hideout is “tentatively” planning to open its new Boerne location on Dec. 1, Owner Michael Godfrey told Community Impact.
The storefront currently sits at 1026 N. Main St. in the Live Oak Shopping Center strip.
What’s special about it? Godfrey said the shop will have a large selection of mostly trading cards along with some new twists from their original location in San Antonio at 8802 Marbach Road, Ste. 102.
“It’ll be 95% trading cards,” he said. “But the difference with the new shop is we’ll have Dungeons and Dragons supplies, books and other tabletop games.”
TCG collections available at Heroes Hideout include Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Magic: The Gathering and more.
Great Springs Project CEO Garry Merritt said the goal of a projected 100-mile trail system that will run continuously from Austin to San Antonio is to protect the area’s natural waters and improve the quality of life for residents, according to previous reporting.
With that aim in mind, GSP is partnering with the Texas Department of Transportation to administer a Trails Corridor Study, which will identify priorities for each component of the trail.
Mapping it out: There are three different surveys: one that asks what residents would like to see on the trails, another that focuses on which trails are a priority and one to identify how the trails will be used.
