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“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’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,” Dallas Police Association President Sean Pease told FOX 4’s Lori Brown last month.<\/p>\n
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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 ‘bust the bond’.<\/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
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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<\/p>\n
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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief In November, Dallas voters will decide whether to approve Proposition A, a $443 million bond that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-467638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467638","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=467638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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