$1.2M City Budget For 911 Dispatch Hiring + New Parkland Clinic

Happy Wednesday, Dallas! Let's get this day started off right. Here's everything you need to know today in Dallas.

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First, today's weather:

Clear throughout the day. High: 83 Low: 58.

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Here are the top stories in Dallas today:

1. Dallas has a new city budget plan that proposes $1.2 million to reduce 911 wait times. The city manager plans to use those funds to hire an additional 44 call takers and 12 dispatchers. As of June 2021, just 55 percent of Dallas' 911 call center response times met the national standard of 10 seconds (the average answer time in Dallas is 33 seconds), which city officials believe is a result of understaffing and high turnover. (KERA News)
2. Yesterday, Parkland Hospital opened a new clinic at the former Red Bird mall site to expand its holistic healthcare offerings to southern Dallas. The 40,000-square-foot clinic is now the second-largest health care center in the Parkland system. It will offer primary care, family medicine, mammography, and simple radiology, as well as child psychiatry and physical rehabilitation center. (The Dallas Morning News)
3. A pickup truck hit and killed a person in the roadway near Dallas Love Field Airport early Tuesday morning. (WFAA.com)
4. Officers responded to a shooting on Monday morning at the Flamingo Apartments in the Dallas Oak Lawn neighborhood, where Justin Wayne Dixon, 30, was pronounced dead of a gunshot wound on the scene. (WFAA.com)
5. The Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance believes homelessness will change in Dallas County following the Sept. 1 ban on camping in public spaces. (Star Local Media)

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Today in Dallas:

• Opening Night of Latinidades at the Latino Cultural Center (9:00 AM and 7:30 PM)

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— Nicole Fallon-Peek

About me: Nicole Fallon-Peek is a journalist and copywriter with a degree in Media, Culture and Communication from New York University. She has served as a freelance reporter, managing editor, copy editor, and editorial director for a variety of B2B news outlets. She currently co-owns and operates content creation agency Lightning Media Partners.