{"id":404966,"date":"2026-08-12T23:26:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T23:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/404966\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T23:26:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T23:26:48","slug":"collin-county-calls-817-5m-bond-to-address-growth-needs-frisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/404966\/","title":{"rendered":"Collin County calls $817.5M bond to address growth needs | Frisco"},"content":{"rendered":"

Collin County residents will vote on a $817.5 million bond when they head to the polls Nov. 3.<\/p>\n

Collin County commissioners<\/a> approved the placement of four bond propositions on the November ballot during an Aug. 10 meeting. The propositions look to improve the county\u2019s jail and courthouse, roads, parks and construct a new elections facility to maintain needs of the county\u2019s growing population.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of these are taxpayer approved, so we put them forward to the taxpayer and if they want to approve it, we\u2019ll move forward. If they don\u2019t, we won\u2019t and I\u2019m perfectly content with that,\u201d County Judge Chris Hill said. \u201cThey\u2019re going to have to pay the bill, so we want their voice on this decision.\u201d<\/p>\n

The details <\/p>\n

The propositions include:<\/p>\n

Proposition A: $296.5 million for court and detention facility projectsProposition B: $475 million for road improvement projectsProposition C: $6 million for parks and open space projectsProposition D: $40 million for elections and records storage facility\"chart<\/p>\n

The bond does not show an explicit tax increase, if approved. Instead, residents could see a potential maximum debt service tax rate of 4.95 cents in 2031 that is flexible, dependent on population growth, officials said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want our taxpayers to see steady finances from the county and steady tax rates from the county, but I recognize that all these projects are really important,” Hill said. “As we put them off we defer them for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zooming in<\/p>\n

Proposition A would go toward finishing out shell spaces in the courthouse and the current court expansion, including the buildout of 15 courtrooms. The expansion project started after the passage of a $683 million bond in 2023<\/a> but more money is needed to complete it, Collin County Administrator Yoon Kim said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause of the current scope and our budget, we do not believe we can build out all 15 courtrooms at this time,\u201d Kim said.<\/p>\n

Elevator upgrades, roof replacements and other renovations are also included among the potential projects in Proposition A.<\/p>\n

The jail portion of the proposition is about $90 million. It looks to construct two clusters of housing with a total of 550 beds, Kim said. The funding will also go toward modernizing elevators and replacing all the cell doors.<\/p>\n

About 1,200 inmates are housed at the county jail as of Aug. 10, Kim said. The 550 beds, if approved, could be completed by the end of 2031 and would still be nearing capacity, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe would be close to being completely full,\u201d he said. \u201cThe issue would be how many inmates would we be sending out of county versus to housing in our own facility.\u201d<\/p>\n

What else you need to know<\/p>\n

Proposition B looks to improve roads in the county as more people move to the area.<\/p>\n

The $475 million could go toward major projects, including the service road for Dallas North Tollway, a service road for the Outerloop west of US 75 and a service road from Farmersville to Rockwall County, said Clarence Daughtery, Collin County\u2019s engineering director.<\/p>\n

Commissioners said they wanted to keep the projects on the ballot vague so they can address other projects as needed instead of committing themselves to areas that may not need immediate attention.<\/p>\n

Proposition C would fund open spaces and parks while Proposition D looks to construct an elections and records facility.<\/p>\n

Currently, the county leases space for election needs and for record keeping that amounts to about $650,000 a year, Kim said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don’t want to go out for [a] bond anymore than we need to but I don’t want to hurt our own operations in the long run,\u201d Commissioner Susan Fletcher said.<\/p>\n

If approved, construction could start on the election and records facility in 2027, Kim said.<\/p>\n

Looking ahead <\/p>\n

Collin County voters will also see a $600 million bond package for Collin College<\/a>. That package includes several expansion projects and two new campuses.<\/p>\n

The last day to register to vote is Oct. 5 for the November election. Early voting runs Oct. 19-25 with Election Day taking place Nov. 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Collin County residents will vote on a $817.5 million bond when they head to the polls Nov. 3.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2626,960,141841,141842,160,162,161],"class_list":["post-404966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-bond","tag-collin-county","tag-collin-county-bond","tag-election-november-election","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}