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<\/p>\nThe Brief<\/p>\n
Dallas broke ground on a new state-of-the-art police training campus at UNT Dallas to replace a temporary facility used since 1990.<\/p>\n
City leaders promise the project will be on time and on budget even though it still requires tens of millions of dollars in public and private funds.<\/p>\n
Funding heavily relies on a $443 million bond on the November ballot, though police representatives and council members voice concerns over the proposal’s vague language.<\/p>\n
DALLAS – The city of Dallas finally broke ground on a new Dallas Police Law Enforcement Training Center on the campus of UNT Dallas.<\/p>\n
And while the city manager promised it would be on time and on budget, there are still tens of millions of dollars needed to make it all happen.<\/p>\n
Dallas Police Training Facility<\/p>\n
What’s new<\/p>\n
On Thursday, the ceremonial groundbreaking made good on a promise made to Dallas police back in 1990, when the city created a temporary Dallas Police Academy in an industrial strip center in southern Dallas.<\/p>\n
The new facility will be a state-of-the-art, 20-acre campus at UNT Dallas.<\/p>\n
What they’re saying<\/p>\n
One city leader used the groundbreaking ceremony as an opportunity to urge voters to approve the $443 million bond going to voters in November.<\/p>\n
“This November, Dallas voters will decide on a public safety bond that give our city the opportunity to invest once more in the people and resources Dallas needs to be safe.,” said former Dallas City Councilman Tennell Atkins.<\/p>\n
The other side<\/p>\n
But the facility still needs millions in private and public funds.<\/p>\n
“We’ve got to have clarity on the language. I cannot support asking voters to approve something if two years down the road it never gets funded,” said Dallas Police Association President Sean Pease.<\/p>\n
Pease is concerned about the language of the proposition going to voters.<\/p>\n
Dallas City Councilwoman Cara Mendelsohn said the city could treat the money like a blank check.<\/p>\n
What’s next<\/p>\n
Dallas voters will be asked to vote on the $443 bond package in November. This is the fifth time the city has asked voters to pay for an academy.<\/p>\n
If voters reject the bond again, Mendelsohn believes the council will work on a new bond package that is focused solely on the academy for voters to vote on in May.<\/p>\n
The Source<\/p>\n
The information in this story comes from a broadcast report from FOX 4’s Lori Brown and comments made by city leaders during Thursday’s groundbreaking ceremony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief Dallas broke ground on a new state-of-the-art police training campus at UNT Dallas to replace a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,133198,80488],"class_list":["post-425815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dallas-police-academy","tag-dallas-police-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425815","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=425815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}