Bexar County Commissioners on Tuesday received an update on the county’s historic $690 million capital improvements program.
It was approved by commissioners in September and the improvements are scheduled over the next 10 years. County officials are calling the program “the biggest in a generation.”
The projects include areas related to transportation, creeks and trails, and parks and facilities.
Tony Canez, who oversees the county community venues program, told commissioners the projects are now prioritized in each county precinct following meetings with each commissioner of those precincts.
“There are total of 120 individual projects that are intended to stimulate the local economy, address the fantastic growth within the county, and help be a catalyst for transformational change for the community,” he said.
The projects all appear on a master schedule that the public can soon follow online as the Bexar County Capital Improvements program.
Commissioners also discussed and approved of the $2.2 billion University Health budget. Its CEO, George Hernandez Jr., told commissioners UH has administered 575,000 vaccines and boosters during the pandemic, primarily through its site at Wonderland Mall.
He said UH is developing properties next to Texas A&M San Antonio on the South Side, near Retama Park on the North Side, and near Westover Hills on the far West Sides for future hospitals.
Hernandez said there are plans for the coming year to expand…
