{"id":480804,"date":"2026-10-29T23:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T23:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/480804\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T23:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T23:00:12","slug":"dallas-passes-5-66-billion-budget-for-2026-27-fiscal-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/480804\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas passes $5.66 billion budget for 2026-27 fiscal year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The Dallas City Council restored about $3.1 million in one-time funding to the Dallas Public Library system this budget cycle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">After proposing a flagship model in January 2026 that could have closed four branch locations, the system is now planning to transition to a flagship model with zero branch closures. <\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">This version of the flagship model will begin Jan. 4, 2027 with seven flagship locations open seven days a week, plus expanded services and programming. The new flagship locations include: Bachman Lake, Fretz Park, Hampton-Illinois, Pleasant Grove, Vickery Park, Lochwood and Highland Hills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Adult learning classes received a one-time $125,000 allocation to continue services and pay an office assistant for one year. The assistant will coordinate all volunteers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">There is also a partnership with the Workforce Solutions Greater Dallas Adult Education and Literacy Consortium to continue offering free GED and ESL classes, which began at six locations in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas City Council restored about $3.1 million in one-time funding to the Dallas Public Library system this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2050,162163,102,105,104,103,118961,80240,3222,4011,16644,2063,1225,2445,2051],"class_list":["post-480804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-budget","tag-capital-budget","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-city-council","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-fiscal-year","tag-general-fund","tag-housing","tag-libraries","tag-pools","tag-property-taxes","tag-public-safety","tag-tax","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480804","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=480804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}