City Council approved a resolution Feb. 10 to call a $105 million road bond election to be held May 9.

The proposal is about $9 million more than a previous recommendation from the 2015 Road Bond Committee, which recommended a $96 million bond package at the councils Jan. 27 meeting.

The $9 million will help fund the expansion of DB Wood Road from Hwy. 29 to Oak Ridge Drive. Councilman John Hesser moved to add the funding into the bond proposal after the council had chosen to fund the replacement of a bridge on DB Wood Road and the design for the expansion at the Jan. 27 meeting.

Councilman Steve Fought supported the motion, which was approved unanimously.

The reason I support adding [DB Wood Road] back in we just put the new public safety facility there; weve got a brand new fire station there; the vehicles that go in and out of there are going to need a route to get up to high speed pretty quick; that is one of our few north-south arteries that connects [Hwy.] 29, he said. I think its inevitable that we need to do it. Lets just go ahead and do it.

Other projects included in the bond include funding for intersection and sidewalk improvements; the extension of Rivery Boulevard from Williams Drive to Northwest Boulevard;a Northwest Boulevard bridge spanning I-35 and connecting to Austin Ave.;and portions of Wolf Ranch Parkway and the Southwest Bypass.

Bond committee member Bob Smith told the council the committees original recommendation of $220 million included projects committee members thought were necessary for the citys growth.

Councilman Tommy Gonzalez said he wanted the bond proposal to include projects that city staff could complete in 10 years.

We are not negating the importance of the roads, its just physically impossible for us to do that much work in a 10-year time period, Gonzalez said.

Gonzalez said the bond proposal includes funds to pay for the engineering and design for many of the projects originally proposed.

On a lot of the ones weve taken out the engineering work is still in place so they can be ready [for construction] seven to 10 years from now, Gonzalez said.

Financial Analyst Paul Diaz said the proposals effect on the citys tax rate and a possible contract with the voters, which would set how much the tax rate could increase each year, would be presented at the councils Feb. 24 meeting.