The Dallas city secretary's office would borrow Dallas County's petition-checking setup this winter to verify signatures on citizen petitions, under an agreement county commissioners are scheduled to approve Tuesday, Nov. 3.
The interlocal agreement is titled for petition signature verification on "2026 Charter Amendments and Recall Petitions." It says the city has received or expects several petitions and asked the county elections department for help. The document does not name the petitions or say how many signatures are involved.
What the county would supply
According to the county's briefing and the draft agreement, the elections department would provide:
- Computers and space at its elections warehouse, 1520 Round Table Drive
- Its petition verification software
- A supervisor and a clerk to train city employees and temporary workers on the system
- Temporary staff sized to finish each review by a deadline the city sets
The city would pay $26.60 an hour for temporary workers' regular time and $39.90 an hour for overtime, plus $150 a day to use the warehouse. County employees would be billed at their own pay rates.
Before each petition review starts, the county would send an estimate and the city would pay half of it as a deposit, with the balance billed after the work is done.
