WINSTON-SALEM-- The City of Winston-Salem will get more than $100 million of improvements, since the voters passed all five bond packages on Election Day.

  • $43.7 million for street and sidewalk improvements
  • $31 million for parks and recreation
  • $21.1 million for public safety facilities
  • $14.5 million for economic development
  • $11.7 million for housing

Officials say some projects could be planned and completed in the next six to eight months.

Allen Joines, the mayor of Winston-Salem, said, "For a growing, thriving city, you have to take care of your infrastructure and your needs, just like your house, you have to occasionally invest some money, and that's what we're doing here."

Joines said, "It's going to make the city a better place, easier to drive and walk around the city. It'll create more recreational amenities for our community, improve our public safety, and hopefully we'll continue to help create jobs here with our economic development bonds, plus provide affordable housing."

In order to finance the bonds, the property tax rate could rise up to 4 cents, starting in July of 2019.