Fort Worth crime tax, Arlington school bond winning in early tally

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By ANNA M. TINSLEY

atinsley@star-telegram.com

Efforts to renew Fort Worth’s crime tax, which pays for police and crime prevention efforts, and 11 proposed changes to the Texas Constitution were among the local and statewide measures leading after early votes were tallied Tuesday night.

Also ahead in the early vote was Arlington’s $197.5 million bond package for new schools, an effort to legalize the sale of alcoholic beverages in some places in Dalworthington Gardens, renewing a sales tax for street repairs in Sansom Park, four charter amendments in River Oaks and a new sales tax to pay for street maintenance in Haltom City, according to unofficial, early votes posted on the Tarrant County election Web site.

However, early voters appeared to be rejecting tax rate hikes in the Aledo and Everman school districts. An effort to approve $5 million for new parks in Trophy Club was getting equal votes for and against and a special election to fill an unexpired Saginaw City Council seat was in a dead heat, with Alex Drew McCraw pulling in 50.93 percent of the vote to Monte T. Nichols’ 49.07 percent, early results showed.

All 11 proposed amendments to the Texas Constitution appeared to be passing, with just early votes in, including measures to protect military bases from urban encroachment, to create more top-flight universities in Texas and limits on eminent domain.

ANNA M. TINSLEY, 817-390-7610

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