Denton has won $750,000 from the U.S. Department of Transportation's 2026 Safe Streets and Roads for All program, according to the Friday staff report the interim city manager sent to the City Council on Nov. 6.
The city's Transportation Services department wrote the application, a supplemental planning project with three parts:
- Safe Routes to School plans for 10 schools
- An update to the city's Americans with Disabilities Act transition plan
- A dashboard tracking transportation and road safety
The awards were announced Oct. 30, the report says. Before any of the work starts, the city still has to sign a grant agreement with the Federal Highway Administration. The report does not say which 10 schools will get plans or when the dashboard would go online.
Safe Streets and Roads for All is a competitive federal program that pays for planning and projects meant to cut serious and deadly crashes on local roads.
Opting out of smart water meters
The same report answered a council member's question about the Advanced Metering Infrastructure program, the citywide switch to smart water meters that began with a pilot this fall.
Staff wrote that the new meters do not add to water rates. Because they read usage more accurately than older meters, though, a customer's bill could go down, go up or stay about the same once a meter is swapped.
