Dallas City Council finds tentative solution for gridlock on $800M bond package: spend $1B instead
Dallas City Council members appear to have finally found a way to agree on the contents of an $800 November million bond package: spending another $225 million.
City staff on Wednesday initially proposed throwing $125 million more at the bond. But council members still didn't like the way that staff had divvied up the projects. Eventually, in a straw vote, the council's majority supported spending another $100 million on top of that.
Council member Scott Griggs and Mayor Mike Rawlings suggested a bond package of $1.025 billion after a lengthy discussion in which council members expressed frustrations about the process of allocating potential bond dollars. The Aug. 9 deadline for putting the bond on the November ballot was beginning to loom over the council members, who don't meet in July.
"We've got to fish or cut bait, and I'm for fishing," Rawlings said. "Let's get on with this."
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