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After bond defeat, Dallas council weighs options for new police station — value engineering, alternate funding and further outreach
Summary
Following a likely voter rejection of a $17.2 million police station bond, councilors discussed options including value-engineering the plan, seeking design-build alternatives, exploring a public-safety fee or levy to cover operating-service tradeoffs, and stepping up citizen outreach and a unified campaign if the council refers a new measure.
Councilors spent an extended portion of the June 2 meeting discussing next steps after what staff described as a likely rejection of a $17,200,000 general-obligation bond for a new police station in the May 20 election (staff reported preliminary results of 2,344 in favor and 2,853 opposed). No formal action was taken; staff asked for direction on analysis and outreach the council would like to pursue.
City Manager and councilors laid out multiple paths forward: (1) ask the project’s architects and an independent reviewer to perform a line-item value-engineering review of the current design and cost…
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