The comments came as Commissioner Tommy Calvert (Pct. 4) and his allies sought a list of eleventh-hour changes to the Bexar County budget.
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Roughly 20 minutes into their third budget work session Monday, longtime community activist T.C. Calvert accused commissioners of deploying 9/11-style terrorism tactics to projects in his son’s precinct. Calvert, on the other hand, had exhausted nearly every avenue, including threatening to sue the county, in his effort to make major changes to the $2.95 billion budgetHe invited numerous residents to speak on his behalf at the public hearing Monday — including his father — as he called on staff to reconsider a new spending cap favored by his colleagues.
“As a Marine officer who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan and has lost many friends in that fight, I couldn’t stomach the comparison,” Moody said in a statement after the meeting. “These comments were so reckless and out of line, they must be condemned publicly.” “The minute we adopt this budget, I will start to sit with the budget office and debrief them as to what I think we could have done better,” Sakai told commissioners after the staff changes were approved Monday.
“I think we all had different numbers of requests,” said Commissioner Justin Rodriguez . “The budget office looked at that and said, ‘Look, we have to figure out how to be fair in this process.’ … So they landed on [$10.5] million per precinct.”