Members of council raised concerns about whether schools or the state should be helping to foot the bill at 286 busy Dallas school crossings.
On the first day of school for Dallas ISD, city council members questioned the $5.6 million price tag to provide for school crossing guards."$5 million is a lot of money," said Dallas City Councilmember Paula Blackmon."I just seems like this is a very large contract numerically, and I'm trying to get a handle on why it is costing so much," added city councilmember Paul Ridley.
The state has frowned on funding additional direct dollars for school crossing guards with the hopes that it would be handled more locally."The state requires cities with more than 1.3 million residents to train and equip crossing guards.City staff say they are needed at intersections crossed by 20 or more unsupervised children, where there are four or more lanes of traffic and anywhere a study determines a need.
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