Oak cliff Municipal Center
If anyone’s interested in what’s been going on at Dallas City Hall recently, we’ve got some of that for you this Easter. The biggest news, at least from my perspective, is City Manager Kimberly Bizor Tolbert hitting the pause button on all new real estate acquisitions until new procedures are put in place to better…
More than 5,600 emails were scanned this month in an effort to determine whether Dallas Development Services employees were concerned for their safety while working at the Stemmons Building that had numerous fire code violations. The investigation resulted in just five emails from employees who used keywords to describe conditions at the Stemmons Freeway building,…
Last week’s meeting of the Ad Hoc Committee on General Investigating and Ethics proved that District 12 Councilwoman Cara Mendelsohn is not suffering fools. That somebody messed up by allowing employees to work for four months in a building that didn’t have permits and wasn’t up to code is an accusation she takes seriously. As…
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…
There’s been some recent buzz about how the office responsible for issuing building permits had to vacate its new building because it didn’t have the proper permits. That’s not exactly how it went down, according to Assistant City Manager Majed Al-Ghafry, but the department — which has struggled recently to improve permit turnaround times and…
