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<\/p>\nDALLAS – Voters in Dallas will soon decide on a public safety bond that would fund new Dallas police training facilities. Critics argue the bond would be the beginning of the process for the city to abandon Dallas City Hall.<\/p>\n
Dallas Proposition A <\/p>\n
What we know:<\/p>\n
On the November ballot, voters in Dallas will decide whether to approve Proposition A<\/a>, a $443 million bond package.<\/p>\n The bond proposition combines funding for a much-needed Dallas police training facility and a measure that would move the city’s 911 call center out of Dallas City Hall.<\/p>\n It would add up to $629 million in debt for the city when including interest.<\/p>\n The Dallas city manager said in a statement that the bond proposition is an important step to strengthen public safety by modernizing public safety operations.<\/p>\n Maxie Johnson and Dallas safety representatives <\/p>\n Local perspective:<\/p>\n On Thursday, Dallas City Councilman Maxie Johnson voiced his support for Proposition A during a news conference. He was joined by representatives from the Dallas Police Association, Black Police Association, and Black Firefighters Association.<\/p>\n “We’re doing everything we can to be accountable and transparent to our community,” Johnson said. This bond will go toward the training facility and it will get done.”<\/p>\n The Dallas Police training facility broke ground<\/a> at UNT Dallas in September, and a gun range near Dallas Executive Airport is also planned. But the projects don’t have enough funding without Proposition A, with the facilities costing more than $300 million.<\/p>\n Dallas police training renderings <\/p>\n “There was not enough money from the beginning when they asked for this. And so I don’t know why the amount was asked for, why the entire amount was not asked for. So I cannot give an account for something that I was not a part of,” Johnson said. “However, I can tell you this now that what we’re having to do is go back to our citizens. And say enough money was not done.”<\/p>\n The other side:<\/p>\n Critics of Proposition A believe language in the bond would give Dallas a blank check of sorts, one that could end up with the city leaving Dallas City Hall altogether.<\/p>\n “We\u2019ve 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,” Dallas Police Association President Sean Pease told FOX 4’s Lori Brown last month.<\/p>\n Dallas City Councilwoman Cara Mendelsohn tried to get clarity on the language during a Dallas City Council meeting, but her proposal failed 8-7. Now, she’s part of the group trying to \u2018bust the bond\u2019.<\/p>\n “One of the items is to move the 911 center out of City Hall. This is the first step in abandoning City Hall, so a lot of support to bust the bond and say no from people who would generally say yes to this has been a hard line that says, ‘No, we’re not gonna leave City Hall, and we’re gonna give you this big pot of money’,” Mendelsohn said.<\/p>\n Mendelson wants to put an amended bond before voters next May that was written by a bond committee to mandate it be used for the police training facilities.<\/p>\n What’s next:<\/p>\n Early voting in North Texas starts on Monday, October 19. Election day is Tuesday, November 3.<\/p>\n The Source: Information in this story comes from a news conference with Maxie Johnson and Dallas safety representatives, an interview with Cara Mendelsohn, and previous FOX 4 reporting.<\/p>\n Dallas<\/a>Dallas City Council<\/a>Dallas Police Department<\/a>2026 Elections<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS – Voters in Dallas will soon decide on a public safety bond that would fund new Dallas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,10821,581,104,103,401,3485,223,1827,216,393],"class_list":["post-467242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-council","tag-dallas-county","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dallas-police","tag-elections-2026","tag-news","tag-organization","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467242","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=467242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/p-lori-dallas-prop-a-public-safety-4p_00.00.18.06.jpg\")
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