I won't benefit from it because even though only my husband works we are not low income, we are not military and my children speak English. So I don't understand why I have to pay so someone else can benefit. True we kneed to support our community but taking money from one family to buy something for another seems unfair. When I worked, we sent my daughter to daycare at $110 a week because of the "requirements" for pre k. It is difficult but must be done because this is my child. It's like buying a car for myself so my sister can take it and drive it everyday. As for this will be the only opportunity for a child to learn that is a load of crap libraries are free. Take your child, get a card and read an age appropriate book everyday. Dollar tree has sight word, ABC, and number cards. Take the time to Contribute to your child. Can't afford daycare I'm sorry we are doing our best as a family to take care of our child I'm tired of supporting everyone else's.

There wasn't any Pre-anything when I grew up. The parents taught their children what they needed BEFORE they went to school with no help from the city, county or government of any kind, but back then Mom stayed home and Dad supported the family. I, for one will vote no on this. We are being 1/8% to death. Notice it never changes back once it's on there? I guess you can charge it to the schools and put it on the school tax. Then if you are over 65, as we are, and you have filed for it at the tax office it won't affect you. I also can go to the military commissary so I can skip that one too. If you don't want it to pass you better get out and vote! Same goes for the Presidential election also on the November ballot.

Not all parents use Pre-K for babysitting and not all parents can stay home from work and watch their children. Perhaps if parents can't afford their children then maybe they shouldn't have them but how can you tell someone they have no right to have them. It isn't your business. The system is so messed up. You have families on food stamps getting $600, $800 a month that cheat the system - and yeah it pisses me off. Children on programs with rotten teeth, parents sitting on their butts collecting food stamps, tanif, housing...makes me sick!! Anyways, My son went to Pre-K3 and Pre-K4. He is now in 4th grade and he has been an straight A student every single year and with perfect attendance. Pre-K can make a difference. It should not be abused.

Children should be raised by their parents. If the parents can't afford to raise them, then they shouldn't have them. It's not up to the government to provide babysitting, which in effect is what pre-school for 4 year olds will turn out to be. Someplace where unfit parents can unload their kids for a few hours and let other people pay for it. Just another government handout if ya ask me, like the free breakfast and lunch programs in the summer. I've seen people run stop signs just to get to the schools in time for a free meal. None of the kids in the car were wearing seat belts either.

NO NO NO - MAYBE JULIAN SHOULDN'T HAVE WASTED THE MONEY CHANGING THE NAME OF DURANGO STREET - IF HE WANTS THE PROJECT, HE SHOULD FIND ANOTHER FUND RAISING PROJECT THAT IS A VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTION - ENOUGH ALREADY WITH THE TAXES, TAXES TAXES ---

Nothing more than tax subsidized babysitting.

To HEB, USAA, Nu Star, Valero, and Rackspace and others favoring this program: thank you for wanting to invest in our kids and the future of SA.

For al of you saying "NO" Don't forget to get out there and actually VOTE!!! Your comments don't mean much if you don't back them up. If you don't vote, Castro wins.

Did I actually read some goomba in here state think of the collective/community and not yourself?? Excuse me comrade but if people thought of themselves as in I NEED TO GET MY TAIL TO WORK we wouldn't be in this mess to begin with. I want no part of anything that rewards people for being lazy and penalizes people for having the will to work. I will be voting a big NO on this. I pray for the day when we get people in office that say we will help those in need get on their feet but we will not sponsor multi generational laziness so don't look to us the taxpayer to fund your BBQ/beer parties or pay your medical bills or rent anymore.

The federal government spends billions of dollars on Head Start annually. Every school district that services San Antonio has pre-K programs. Why the push to involve city government in an area that is already covered by two other layers of government? This proposal is just the big government, tax-and-spend, quasi-socialist Castro trying to expand the city's nanny-state governance into areas it wasn't designed to control. Castro, like every other quasi-socialist is power hungry and this just gives him more of it. All it is is a money grab by Castro and his buddies on Council. It's expected to raise $39 million annually and support 4,000 kids. Seriously??? It's going to take $10,000 per kid per school year for pre-school for services already provided by multiple other layers of government??? BTW...the annual cost for the average Head Stat student in Texas is almost 30% less than that. It's also a good point that the large companies supporting this would rather have the cost run through city government and sales taxes than the school districts and property taxes. Imagine how much a raise in property taxes on HEB's many properties or Rackspace's huge campus would affect those companies. Over the course of time it would cost them tens of millions of dollars. Of course they would rather push the cost solely onto us! We already have school districts and the federal government to do this. City government needs to stay out of education.