Keller and Northwest ISDs will each pay more than $1 million for school resource officers through an interlocal agreement with the city of Fort Worth.<\/p>\n
Fort Worth City Council approved the fiscal year 2026-27 program through the Crime Control & Prevention District budget for Keller<\/a>, Northwest<\/a>, Fort Worth and Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISDs, as well as Lena Pope Home Inc., during its Oct. 13 meeting<\/a>.<\/p>\n Council also approved a contract to remodel the Real Time Crime Center, a rezoning request in Council District 10 and council meeting dates for 2027.<\/p>\n The overview<\/p>\n The total amount for all the school districts, as part of a 50% split, is $10.09 million. The amount includes adjustments from fiscal years 2024-25 and 2025-26 to reflect a \u201ctrue-up\u201d budget, which reflects the actual costs of line items, according to city documents.<\/p>\n KISD will pay $1.55 million for 11 officers, reflecting a $36,390 decrease after the review. NISD will have 10 officers and pay $1.21 million, reflecting a savings of $33,082 from the same review.<\/p>\n The contract runs from Oct. 1 to Sept. 30, 2027.<\/p>\n According to previous reporting<\/a>, KISD paid $1.48 million and NISD paid $1.16 million during the 2025-26 school year. <\/p>\n There are 93 total resource positions, with 57 in FWISD. The breakdown includes 81 officers, one mobile officer and 11 supervisors and relief positions. <\/p>\n According to city documents, the 11 positions include two relief officers, two detectives, six sergeants and one lieutenant. These positions are reimbursed to the CCPD at 100%.<\/p>\n What else?<\/p>\n General contracting company Vision Builders will remodel the Real Time Crime Center at 3900 Barnett St. in Fort Worth.<\/p>\n The Fort Worth company was awarded a $3.72 million contract to renovate 6,000 square feet of space to modernize the building and expand the Tactical Real-Time Intelligence Detection Enforcement of North Texas, or TRIDENT, for the Fort Worth Police Department Intelligence Exchange.<\/p>\n TRIDENT will be a multiagency real-time crime and data-sharing initiative run by the city of Fort Worth, according to city documents.<\/p>\n Keller Police Department is one of 14 police departments, along with the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office, that agreed to participate in TRIDENT. According to previous reporting<\/a>, the city of Keller would provide a detective to the program.<\/p>\n Construction is expected to be completed in spring 2027 with operations to begin at a later date, according to city documents. <\/p>\n Also of note<\/p>\n Dickies Fort Worth DC Holdings LLC requested that 22.55 acres at 9201 NW US 287 be rezoned to light industrial. The motion passed 10-0, with Chris Jamieson absent from the meeting.<\/p>\n The request will allow warehouse and distribution uses, according to documents<\/a> provided at the Sept. 9 planning and zoning meeting.<\/p>\n