Dallas City Council moved forward with a November 3 bond election centered on $443 million in general-obligation bonds for public-safety facilities. The package includes the remaining funding for a law-enforcement training center, a public-safety training complex, a consolidated property room and crime lab, modernization and relocation of 911 and emergency-operations functions, and replacement of Fire Station No. 4. Voters therefore face not just whether the projects are useful, but whether bundling them into one large debt-financed package is preferable to phasing or deferring some work. Aging safety infrastructure can become expensive to postpone, but debt also commits future taxpayers. The package should be judged project by project even when voters receive one proposition.