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tackle this month.

The city plans to spend $1.5 million on decommissioning homelessness
encampments, and another $1.5 million on building fences to keep
homeless individuals out of encampment-prone areas, like highway
overpasses and bridges. It will also budget $1.1 million for the
"cleaning" of encampments.

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<[link removed]'s budget
plans, Dallas could hire more police and firefighters, city employees
could see a pay bump and senior citizens could see an increase in their
property tax exemption in 2023-24.

The total proposed budget is $4.63 billion.

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