Like the City of San Antonio, Bexar County too is grappling with a budget deficit largely due to a big drop in revenue from property taxes due to declines in existing property values.
There has also been less new property to tax with declines in new commercial and residential construction compared to previous boom years.
Both the city and county also funded some vital services and jobs to carry them out with federal COVID relief dollars that will be gone by the end of the year. In the county’s case, 389 million federal dollars helped the county recover from the pandemic…