Sherman shifts more street work to city crews, budgets $2 million-plus for two roads
City budget records say Sherman crews can now run street jobs side by side. The fiscal 2026 plan lines up repairs for Cherry Street and North Travis Street.
Sherman has moved more of its street construction and repair work to its own crews. The city has also budgeted a little more than $2 million for fiscal 2026 repairs on Cherry Street and North Travis Street, according to its five-year capital plan. For residents, the practical change is that city workers can now keep more than one street job going at once.
Sherman's fiscal 2025 budget says resources added in fiscal 2024 made the in-house shift possible. According to the budget, crews can now work projects side by side. The added capacity also lets them reclaim old asphalt and handle bigger curb replacements.
Cherry Street gets the larger share of the fiscal 2026 money, and its repairs include curb and gutter work. North Travis Street gets the rest. For later years, the plan proposes Taylor Street repairs in fiscal 2027 and work on Lamberth Road, Woods Street and Fallon Drive in fiscal 2028. Those are proposed amounts, not finished projects.
Cherry Street leads fiscal 2026 repairs; a bigger package is proposed for fiscal 2028
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City of Sherman, FY2026–2030 Capital Improvement Plan
A multi-street package, still only proposed
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| Project (fiscal year) | Allocation (dollars) |
|---|---|
| Cherry St. (FY2026) | $1,216,146 |
| N. Travis St. (FY2026) | $844,165 |
| Taylor St. (FY2027, proposed) | $2,675,098 |
| Lamberth, Woods & Fallon (FY2028, proposed) | $5,795,420 |
Sherman also collects a sales tax set aside for street maintenance. The rate is one-eighth of a cent on each taxable dollar, or roughly 12 cents on a $100 purchase. The city says the tax brings in more than $1 million a year and has helped repair or rebuild more than 150 miles of streets.
of Sherman streets repaired or rebuilt with help from the dedicated street sales tax
The city says the one-eighth-cent tax brings in more than $1 million a year. Voters renewed it Nov. 7, 2023; the next opportunity to renew it is Nov. 2, 2027.
The city treats protecting a street's surface and repairing its structure as separate jobs. Its seal-coating page explains that chip seal keeps water out of the pavement without making it any stronger. For that reason, the city says chip seal does not suit older streets that need an overlay or reconstruction.
Sherman adopted its fiscal 2027 budget on Sept. 8, 2026. The city's budget page says the capital program in that budget mostly carries on projects started in fiscal 2026 or earlier. The page says tax notes will pay for street improvements as well as fleet vehicles and equipment.
Voters last renewed the street sales tax on Nov. 7, 2023. The city lists Nov. 2, 2027, as the next opportunity to renew it.
The tax was already in place in 2010. Minutes from that year's Nov. 19 council meeting record the mayor reporting that it raised about $1 million a year. The mayor also said roughly seven in ten voters had backed it at the previous election.
The state also treats sealing as repeat work. The Texas Department of Transportation's seal-coat manual dates the agency's formal preventive-maintenance program to 1987. The manual calls six to eight years between seal coats desirable and says funding does not always allow that schedule.
National figures from earlier in the decade show road construction costs going up. The Bureau of Transportation Statistics reports that seasonally adjusted highway construction costs rose steeply from the end of 2020 through the first quarter of 2024, then slipped a little in the second quarter of that year. Those figures cover the whole country and do not measure Sherman's costs.
In nearby Denison, minutes from the June 16, 2025, council meeting show the city put more money into its fiscal 2025 street program than the year before. The minutes say Denison picked the streets for that program using pavement-condition assessment data.
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