{"id":438651,"date":"2026-09-17T09:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T09:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/438651\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T09:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T09:54:10","slug":"city-council-returns-more-than-1m-and-25-jobs-to-dallas-libraries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/438651\/","title":{"rendered":"City council returns more than $1M \u2013 and 25 jobs \u2013 to Dallas libraries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Dallas City Council restored more than $1M and 25 jobs to the library system after an 11th-hour vote on Wednesday. Nearly a dozen community branches were spared from $1.125 million in cuts, while some $800,000 still remains in reductions. The initial budget draft had included a $1.9 million cut and 72 positions, along with taking 21 community libraries from six days a week to five. The restored funding saves a third of the positions and keeps 11 of those libraries open six days a week. The adopted $5.9 billion budget also shifts Dallas to a regional library model centered on five flagship branches: Bachman Lake, Vickery Park, Fretz Park, Hampton-Illinois and Pleasant Grove. J. Erik Jonsson Central Library will remain the system&#8217;s primary anchor. Council members also approved more than $200,000 for new furniture, paint and technology upgrades at the flagship locations. Library advocates are still asking for more stable funding in future budget cycles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas City Council restored more than $1M and 25 jobs to the library system after an 11th-hour vote&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[151998,151997,102,105,104,103,151999],"class_list":["post-438651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-community-branches","tag-community-libraries","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-city-council","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-initial-budget"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438651","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=438651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}