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Plano officials say DART’s value study falls short; staff to monitor transit proposal and options
Summary
Plano staff told City Council that a DART-conducted value analysis did not answer the city’s quantitative questions about where its 1¢ sales-tax dollars go; staff will monitor DART’s pending proposal and bring options to council in coming months.
Plano City Council received an update Monday night on the Dallas Area Rapid Transit funding analysis and legislative efforts after city staff said the agency did not provide the quantitative return‑on‑investment information the city requested.
Andrew Fortune, the city’s director of policy and government relations, told the council that DART supplied a mostly qualitative document instead of the detailed numbers Plano requested and that a 2023 study showed Plano was “by far the most underwater” in a comparison of what member cities paid versus what they received in DART spending.
The difference for 2023, Fortune said, was stark: Plano contributed about $109,000,000 in sales tax to DART that year and received roughly $44,600,000 in spending back in the city — about 40 cents on the dollar — leaving an implied net transfer of about $65,000,000 to…
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