{"id":48523,"date":"2025-11-13T21:24:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T21:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/48523\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T21:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T21:24:11","slug":"dallas-police-and-fire-pension-system-accepts-citys-new-offer-with-a-caveat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/48523\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas police and fire pension system accepts city\u2019s new offer, with a caveat"},"content":{"rendered":"

In what appears to be a breakthrough in a years-long fight, the Dallas Police and Fire Pension Board voted Thursday to accept terms reflected in the city\u2019s offer sent on Sept. 26, 2025. <\/p>\n

However, the board\u2019s approval came with a caveat. The deal would be subject to \u201cthe acceptable finalization and negotiation\u201d as well as the \u201cfinalization of a comprehensive settlement agreement\u201d by the city and the pension board. <\/p>\n

However, some pointed out they were \u201cexcited by the prospect of a settlement.\u201d<\/p>\n

Council member Chad West celebrated the news in his newsletter and said the board had accepted the \u201ccity\u2019s best and final\u201d offer.<\/p>\n

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Last month, the City Council approved spending an additional $500,000<\/a> to tackle a legal fight that began last year over who gets the final say on a plan to fix the $3.4 billion funding shortfall.<\/p>\n

The legal funding increase came as the city continues to challenge a Travis County District Court ruling from last year, which ordered Dallas to move forward with the funding recommendations made by the Police and Fire Pension System Board. Oral arguments are scheduled between both parties in the Eighth Court of Appeals in El Paso on Nov. 12. <\/p>\n

Pension system leaders have said the legislative action that rescued the plan from the brink of collapse in 2017 gave the board exclusive authority to approve the plan<\/a> so long as it complies with state regulatory requirements. The city, in rebuttal, invoked another state law<\/a>, which says if the time it takes to fund a pension system exceeds 30 years, then the city and the fund must develop a funding restoration plan together.<\/p>\n

In court documents, the city referred to the pension system\u2019s stance as \u201cextreme\u201d and said it \u201cwould also risk creating a precedent authorizing pension systems across Texas to raid city coffers (i.e., resident tax dollars) without so much as involving the cities in these decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In what appears to be a breakthrough in a years-long fight, the Dallas Police and Fire Pension Board…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,106,104,103,287],"class_list":{"0":"post-48523","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-city-hall","10":"tag-dallas-headlines","11":"tag-dallas-news","12":"tag-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48523","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=48523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}