Dallas Area Rapid Transit could forego reallocating funds for several member cities if they support legislation to defund the agency.
In a letter sent last month, DART Board of Directors Chairman Gary Slagel gave seven cities a deadline of Aug. 31 to adopt city council resolutions requesting General Mobility Program funds and committing to ceasing support for legislation that would reduce or divert DART funding.
Those seven cities – Addison, Carrollton, Farmers Branch, Plano, Richardson, University Park, and the town of Highland Park – were found to pay more into the DART system via a one-cent sales tax than they receive in services. The DART board approved a new program in March that will return 5% of its annual sales tax revenue to those cities through a new General Mobility Program to fund non-DART transit projects…