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Dallas County would pay the city four $325,000 installments to help run its homeless assistance center. A year-end report on the agenda shows The Bridge beat most of its targets but reached 72% of its goal for housing care coordination.
A consultant's draft would rate the city manager, attorney, auditor, secretary and inspector general on targets drawn from peer cities, with results posted online and the annual review each October.
Slides for Monday's Quality of Life, Arts, and Culture Committee put fiscal 2025 direct spending by productions at about $133.5 million, with 3,747 local crew hires and 31,552 hotel and rental nights.
A memo for Monday's council committee says the city will revisit its 2017 route choice through downtown, with an engineering contract expected Oct. 28, and that the streetcar now counts toward two federal transit formula programs.
Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport has implemented new pricing for its various parking options, with terminal rates increasing by $5 to $8 depending on the payment method used.
A briefing for Monday's Quality of Life committee lays out how the City Detect system scans yards, roofs and alleys from sanitation routes, what it blurs, and what happened after staff reviewed its findings.
A majority voted Wednesday to postpone the proposal to rename three blocks of North Harwood Street for the Texas Stock Exchange until Oct. 28, after holdouts argued the city was renaming only the financial district's stretch.
Slides for Monday's Transportation and Infrastructure Committee show Dallas' share of the six-year fund rising to about $211 million, a push to cap Dallas' board vote at 40% to 50%, and lower crime on the system.
The public is invited to view residential water-wise landscapes and participate in educational activities on Saturday, Oct. 17, at White Rock Pump Station.
A council committee is briefed Monday on a rewrite of the city's vegetation rule that would make enforcement turn on whether plants block the right-of-way, not on where they are rooted. A council vote is set for Nov. 10.
The ordinance would set up an extendable commercial paper program to bridge capital project costs, with Wells Fargo and JPMorgan as dealers. Setup and running costs are capped at $855,000.
A design-build deal with Chamberlin Dallas on the council's consent agenda would replace the worn flat roofs at both city arts centers, with construction set for June 2027 to June 2028.
The city wants to rescind Midwest Maintenance's janitorial and terrazzo contract, citing its inability to meet contract terms, and award the work to UBM Enterprise in a deal worth up to $20.1 million.
A year-end report for Tuesday's Public Safety Committee puts sworn strength at 3,447, short of the 4,000 target, with retirements leading the departures and turnover hitting the 911 center too.
Park staff told a council committee they cut deferred maintenance by about $3.7 million, but event revenue cannot cover the rest, and the Cotton Bowl's east side still has no funding plan.
The package would add six buildings at the UNT Dallas site and raise Swinerton Builders' contract to $185 million. The city counts $107 million committed so far, with $82 million more tied to the Nov. 3 bond.
The proposed program for the 2027 session would also end the city's responsibility for school crossing guards, back decriminalizing fentanyl test strips and shape a $300,000 search for lobbyists.
Ken Paxton's office ruled the records must go to WFAA and other requesters. Dallas cites a 2025 transportation code change that the bill's House sponsor says was "never intended" for official travel.
Five District 13 residents signed the notice of intent filed Oct. 9 over three zoning cases. Organizers have 60 days to gather signatures and are aiming for the May 2027 ballot.
Nine members backed renaming a stretch of North Harwood Street "Exchange Place" on Sept. 23, but a historic street name takes 12 votes to change. A Pettis Norman name for the Houston Street Viaduct is also up Oct. 14.
Overtime records obtained by NBC 5 Investigates show motorcycle escorts and SWAT led the June and July spending. A September political convention added more than $500,000 with no promise of reimbursement.
