San Antonio Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones said the timing of her push to move the city’s municipal elections to November, which some on council have called hasty, comes down to a lack of information from city staff.
“I found out about it when I read that Dallas voted in November to move their elections,” Jones told the Current during a Town Hall over the weekend at San Antonio’s Central Library. “When I read that, I dug a little further into why they did that and the benefits.”
During the last legislative session in Austin, Texas lawmakers passed Senate Bill 1494, which gives cites until Dec. 31 to move their municipal elections to November during years when neither a presidential nor midterm contest is taking place…