Two Oncor delivery charges rose on bills rendered from Oct. 4, adding about 0.84 cents per kilowatt-hour, or $8.38 a month at 1,000 kWh. In Garland, the city-owned utility cut its rate a penny per kilowatt-hour on Oct. 1. Here is why the bills split and how to check yours.
Plano’s Oct. 12 consent agenda includes up to $390,000 for ChatGPT Enterprise, Teams Premium, an AI governance tool called Darwin AI and a reserve. The city would start with 150 ChatGPT licenses at an estimated $57,024 a year, about $380 per seat, with training and human review required.
The Regional Transportation Council is set to vote on a regional bicycle safety plan it tabled in September. Its crash map puts 55% of bicycle crashes in 11.6% of the urbanized area. A separate item would open a $60 million federal call for trails, bikeways and Safe Routes to School plans on Oct. 12.
Tarrant County’s approved FY2027 budget totals $834,076,906, about $10.6 million more than last year, on an 18.60-cent rate that sits just under no-new-revenue. Departments asked for $985.9 million. The budget book shows what got cut, what grew and why median and average homes move in opposite directions.
DFW Airport raised every parking price on Oct. 1. A day in a terminal garage is now $40 by card, up from $32, with a $3 TollTag discount. We priced a three-day trip and traced the increase to a $1.622 billion budget and new Terminal F debt.
Dallas College kept its rate at $0.106575 per $100, but rising values mean the average homestead pays $23.79 more and the median home $9.24 more. The college’s own notices show where the extra $32.2 million comes from and how TCC and Collin College stack up.
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, The City of Fort Worth has set Nov. 10, 2026, for a special called work session at 4 p.m. on the Data Center & Infrastructure Commission report and a 6 p.m. council meeting that serves as the first of two required public hearings toward a data-center development moratorium, following Aug. 11 actions that … Read more
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