Dallas City Council

City Hall Roundup: Charter Review Commission Submits 35 Amendments That Could Mean Mo’ Money, Mo’ Problems

By April Towery / May 12, 2024 /

Dallas voters could decide this November whether to double council member salaries to $125,000 per year, require that the Community Police Oversight director and Inspector General be appointed by the City Council, and delete the provision prohibiting the City Council from “interfering” with appointees and subordinates of the city manager. In all, the council is…

Housing and Urban Development Budget Review Prompts Debate Over Childcare, Community Courts 

By April Towery / May 7, 2024 /

A plan to distribute $31 million annually over five years to Dallas-based U.S. Housing and Urban Development grant programs is slated for adoption in June and implementation in October — but Dallas City Council members don’t agree on how to distribute the funds.  The Dallas City Council reviewed the plan in February and revisited it…

City Officials: The Only Reason For Stemmons Evacuation Was ‘Roaming Employees’

By April Towery / May 3, 2024 /

Lest we be accused of burying the lead, nobody got fired (yet) and an audit of what exactly went down at the City of Dallas’ Development Services Department’s new office building is imminent.  Dallas City Council members convened Thursday as the Ad Hoc Committee on General Investigating and Ethics to discuss the building at 7800…

Why Does CandysDirt.com Cover Dallas City Hall? Come For Luxury Listings, Stay For Zoning And Land Use

By April Towery / April 29, 2024 /

Occasionally I’m asked why a real estate news site covers Dallas City Hall. Shouldn’t we stick to what CandysDirt.com has done best since 2011: celebrity real estate, luxury listings, and “house porn”? I began freelancing for CandysDirt.com in 2019, writing a weekly feature on open houses. In 2022, as the redistricting process was heating up…

City Hall Roundup: What Dallas City Council Members Had to Say About T.C. Broadnax on His Last Day at The Horseshoe

By April Towery / April 28, 2024 /

Dallas elected officials gave high praise to City Manager T.C. Broadnax during an April 24 City Council meeting, as the top administrator prepares to leave for a similar job in Austin.  The irony was lost on no one, as some of the council members who praised him organized earlier this year to orchestrate Broadnax’s ouster.…