Ron M. Holiday
North Richland Hills voters will see four bond propositions totaling $145.97 million on Nov. 3. The city’s voter documents put repayment near $230.9 million and the tax impact at up to 2.5 cents, about $70 a year for the average home.
Collin County’s $475 million road bond is the largest of four county propositions on the Nov. 3 ballot. The county’s voter information document shows why the road bond’s $1.12 estimate and the full package’s $9.51 estimate are both true.
FORT WORTH, Trinity Metro’s board approved a fiscal year 2027 budget of about $204.5 million in spending on Monday around Sept. 22, 2026, cutting roughly $17.8 million from the FY2026 adopted plan while still advancing a Trinity Railway Express double-track project and a 2.1-mile TEXRail extension into the Near Southside/Medical District with a Mistletoe Boulevard … Read more
FORT WORTH, Trinity Metro’s adopted Fiscal Year 2026 operating budget plans $203.3 million in operating revenue and $174.1 million in operating expenses, with sales-tax receipts covering about 59% of that revenue base, according to the agency’s FY26 Budget Book. Fort Worth sales-tax revenue alone is budgeted at $118.9 million. Combined sales-tax contributions from Grapevine and … Read more
PLANO , The North Texas Tollway Authority’s FY2026 Final Budget plans about $1.39 billion in NTTA System revenues, including $1.31 billion from tolls, while budgeting $273.1 million for the Operation and Maintenance Fund that keeps lanes open and customers served. NTTA does not collect property taxes. Tolls, service fees, and investment income fund the system. … Read more
LEWISVILLE , The Denton County Transportation Authority’s adopted Fiscal Year 2026 Operating and Capital Budget puts $54,251,832 toward operations and $26,062,345 toward capital, with sales tax budgeted at $41 million from the half-cent collected in member cities Denton, Highland Village, and Lewisville. That sales-tax line is the largest single revenue source in the book. DCTA … Read more
IRVING — Irving ISD voters will decide a nearly $952 million bond package on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026, with four separately voted propositions and a projected tax-rate impact of 12.5 cents if all pass, or about $20.83 a month on a $340,000 home with the standard homestead exemption, according to the district’s official Bond 2026 … Read more
DALLAS — Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s board of directors approved a $1.4 billion budget on Sept. 22, 2026, that returns some local funding to the agency’s 12 member cities under the General Mobility Program, according to KERA’s report of the board action. Board chair Randall Bryant said earlier in the month that the GMP is … Read more
FORT WORTH, Texas — The largest slice of Fort Worth’s voter-approved $845 million 2026 bond program remains the streets and mobility package: Proposition A at $511,480,700, according to the city’s official Bond Program pages, while September’s budget vote kept the municipal debt-service rate unchanged to protect borrowing capacity. Voters approved all six bond propositions on … Read more