Dallas/Forth Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – Dallas County voters have had enough of the controversies surrounding Dallas County Schools, the agency that operates school buses for all school districts in the county. They voted yesterday to shut down the agency, and let the nine districts that have been using the service, work out their own transportation plans. A new board will take over DCS a week from now.
Dallas voters have also given a thumbs up to the fourth major bond initiative since 1998. With a price tag of $1.35 the package is aimed at repairing city streets and buildings, as well as add new parks.
The bonds’ backers, to include Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings, sold the plan as a “back-to-basics” program and promised it will not require the city to raise the property tax rate.
“Dallas voters want to grow, they want to have the basics, but they don’t want to have more taxes. The fact that we were able offer a bond proposition that was fiscally conservative was a very positive thing”
Meantime, three bond proposals were approved in Farmers Branch.
In Fort Worth, voters approved a $750 million dollar bond package that will be used to renovate 14 high schools and city expansion.
Overall, Texas voters have gave a thumbs up to all seven proposed constitutional amendments.
The first amendment gives a property tax break to partially disabled veterans. number two changes home equity borrowing in Texas. The third one limits the time gubernatorial appointees can serve after their terms expire. Number 4 alerts the attorney general when state laws are challenged. five deals with raffles run by charities. The sixth offers financial help to the widows of first responders killed in the line of duty; and, number seven allows banks to offer prizes for savings accounts. again, they were all approved.
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