Voting sign. Photography by Liesbeth Powers.

If you haven’t cast your vote yet to elect the Dallas ISD District 2 board member and for/against the district’s bond proposal, you still have time.

Early voting ends Tuesday, April 28, and election day is Saturday, May 2. Voting centers, which will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., are located in East Dallas at: 

  • St. Paul’s Evangelical and Reformed Church, UCC, at 6464 E. Lovers Lane
  • Samuell Grand Recreation Center at 6200 E. Grand Ave.
  • Lochwood Branch Library at 11221 Lochwood Blvd.
  • Harry Stone Recreation Center at 2403 Millmar Drive 
  • Dallas College-Eastfield Campus at 3737 Motley Drive 

You can find more locations to vote here. Dallas County residents who are registered voters should be able to vote at any of the centers.

District 2 incumbent Sarah Weinberg will face off against challenger Winnetka K. Smith-Alford. In East Dallas, District 2 covers territory between North Central Expressway and White Rock Lake, south of Northwest Highway and north of Old East Dallas. This district includes Woodrow Wilson High School. Learn more about Weinberg here and Smith-Alford here. 

As for the bond election, there are four propositions that voters can decide on separately. Proposition A asks for about $5.9 billion “for school facilities, land and buses, including district-wide (a) safety and security, (b) new replacement schools, (c) renovated schools, (d) physical education facilities and (e) technology infrastructure,” according to the sample ballot. All schools in the district would be renovated, and 26 would be replaced, including Mockingbird Elementary, Bayles Elementary, S.S. Conner Elementary and Charles A. Gill Elementary.

Proposition B is for technology upgrades, totalling $144.7 million.

Proposition C would use about $143.3 million to “(refund) all or a portion of the principal, interest and redemption premium on certain previously issued maintenance tax obligations of the district,” or refinance its debt.

Proposition D would funnel $26.25 million into repairing existing swimming pool facilities.

The bond proposal would raise the property tax rate by 1 cent. For more information, see Dallas ISD’s website here.