Collin County
Prop A: $296.5M courts, jail, probation
Vote no.
Adds about 550 jail beds alongside needed courthouse repairs, with no diversion plan attached.
DFW Progressives · 2026 ballot guide
Collin County
A shareable, propositions-only guide to DFW Progressives’ recommendations for the measures grouped in Collin County.
How to read the grades
Collin County
DFW Progressives’ recommendation and short rationale for each listed measure.
Collin County
Vote no.
Adds about 550 jail beds alongside needed courthouse repairs, with no diversion plan attached.
Collin County
Vote yes, and stay engaged.
Toll-free roads for a fast-growing county where families lose hours in traffic. Push for sidewalks, safety and transit next.
Collin County
Vote yes.
Parks and land, including joint projects with cities.
Collin County
Vote yes.
Election infrastructure is democracy infrastructure. County-owned space replaces about $650,000 a year in leases.
Collin College
Vote yes.
Workforce and career training, with new campuses in fast-growing east Collin. The college expects no rate increase.
City of Anna
Vote yes, and stay engaged.
A fast-growing city needs streets. Watch which neighborhoods get them first.
Bland ISD
Vote yes.
Operating money for a small public school district.
McKinney ISD
Vote yes.
Teacher pay, new schools and safety. The total rate still drops about 3.8 cents.
McKinney ISD
Vote yes, and stay engaged.
Needed equipment. Devices wear out fast, so the district should pay these bonds off quickly.
McKinney ISD
Not perfect, but the need is serious enough to justify a yes.
Repairs to athletic facilities that serve some students, not all. Small, but lower priority.
Lavon Municipal Development District
Vote no.
A new sales tax, which hits low-income shoppers hardest, for development projects no one has named.
Blue Meadow MUD No. 2 and No. 4
Vote yes, and stay engaged.
Fire protection for the people who live there.
Blue Meadow MUD No. 2, No. 4, The Preserve MUD
Vote no.
Developer-created district debt that future homeowners repay. See the full guide’s utility-district-bonds explanation.
Source: DFW Progressives 2026 Ballot Grades, updated October 19, 2026. Political advertising paid for by DFW Progressives.