{"id":437623,"date":"2026-09-16T11:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T11:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/437623\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T11:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T11:00:12","slug":"texas-largest-local-governments-add-bond-propositions-to-november-elections-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/437623\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas’ Largest Local Governments Add Bond Propositions to November Elections | Local"},"content":{"rendered":"

Texas voters have several high-profile elections to decide this November, including a U.S. Senate race that\u2019s attracting national attention<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lower down the ballot, though, voters in some of the state\u2019s biggest jurisdictions will also decide whether to let their county, city, or school district borrow more money through bonds.<\/p>\n

As local governments finalize budgets before the end of the month, several of the five biggest cities<\/a> and school districts<\/a> in Texas have already authorized November elections to approve bonds, a form of debt typically used to finance improvements to government-owned buildings or infrastructure.<\/p>\n

These elections in November will follow a May election that saw the approval of record-breaking bonds, though none issued by the same jurisdictions listed below. On May 2, Dallas Independent School District (ISD) voters approved<\/a> the largest school district bond in Texas history<\/a>, and Fort Worth voters approved a $645 million bond package<\/a> mostly for street and park projects.<\/p>\n

Out of the state\u2019s five biggest counties, only Dallas County and Tarrant County have finalized budgets for the upcoming fiscal year, and neither authorized a November bond election. However, Dallas County will ask voters in November to approve a higher property tax rate<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Out of the five most populous cities in Texas, two have approved November bond propositions.<\/p>\n

The City of Dallas will ask voters to approve a $443 million public safety bond package<\/a> in November. The package includes $82 million for a new police academy, which was the purpose of a $50 million bond passed in 2024<\/a>. The 2026 package would also fund upgrades to existing police facilities and help relocate the city\u2019s 9-1-1 emergency operations.<\/p>\n

The City of Austin put two bond propositions<\/a> on the November ballot totaling $295 million. A $260 million bond for parkland improvements makes up the lion\u2019s share of the package; a second proposition for $35 million would fund the construction of a new city library and improvements to existing libraries.<\/p>\n

Two of the state\u2019s five largest ISDs also plan to put bonds on the November ballot.<\/p>\n

Cypress-Fairbanks ISD<\/a> will ask voters to approve a $1.6 billion bond package<\/a> for a variety of property improvements, including new technology fitouts, school buses, and building amenity improvements.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Northside ISD<\/a> in San Antonio will ask voters to approve an $886 million<\/a> bond package to fund several facility improvements, new instructional technology, and a new swimming facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas voters have several high-profile elections to decide this November, including a U.S. Senate race that\u2019s attracting national…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[132,10452,102,151653,5373,82,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-437623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-austin","tag-bond-election","tag-dallas","tag-local-bonds","tag-november-election","tag-san-antonio","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437623","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=437623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}