San Antonio keeps solid-waste fees steady while rolling out smart-collection system and apprenticeship training
Solid Waste Management Director Josephine Valencia presented a FY26 proposal that maintains current user fees and service levels, highlights a citywide rollout of a tablet-based Smart Collection System to reduce missed pickups, and continues investments in transfer-station repairs and workforce training.
The full story
Josephine Valencia, director of Solid Waste Management, presented the departmentFY26 operating plan at the Sept. 9 City of San Antonio budget work session, saying the department expects no rate increases or service-level reductions while rolling out a digital route-navigation and service-verification system intended to reduce missed collections.
Sign up to keep reading.
Your free newsletter brings you what your city council, county, and school board discussed and decided.