Dallas voters to decide if non-U.S. citizens should be allowed to serve on advisory boards
If approved by voters on May 1, Dallas could be the 2nd major city to change its city charter to remove ‘qualified voters’ requirement.
Traffic passes a polling place sign outside Carpenter Park Recreation Center on Monday, June 29, 2020, in Plano. (Smiley N. Pool/The Dallas Morning News)(Smiley N. Pool / Staff Photographer)
A year ago, it would have been impossible for Edith Rodriguez to serve on a Dallas city advisory board.
While she’s lived here for a decade as a legal permanent resident, she could not participate on any of Dallas’ more than 50 city boards and commissions because she is not a U.S. citizen and can’t vote. City code and charter barred her and thousands of others like her from serving because she was not a registered voter.
‘Beyond problematic’: Panhandling needs more enforcement in Dallas, some council members say
Ongoing issue raises concerns about safety, blight from trash
A homeless man solicits passing drivers for money at the intersection I-35E and Market Center in Dallas in 2019. Dallas City Council members say they want increased enforcement on panhandling in the city saying it s a health and safety issue.(David Woo / Staff Photographer)
Several Dallas City Council members say they want increased enforcement on panhandlers, citing concerns about safety and blight from trash as a result of those activities.
Council member Lee Kleinman, during a council briefing Wednesday, asked City Attorney Chris Caso to prepare several possible Dallas code amendment proposals for consideration, including one that would allow city marshals to issue citations and another that would ban all forms of in-person solicitation.
The drivers have been playing cat and mouse with the Dallas Police Department and the city for a few months as their takeovers become larger and more frequent. According to DPD, which doesn t distinguish between swingers and racers, around 2,000 street racers are out on any given weekend in Dallas. There are more participants than ever, the department says, and often several events are taking place at the same time across the city.
TSNLSDallas, as it’s called on Instagram, became one of the main organizers of these events throughout last year. “[It] started in March of 2020,” the Instagram user says. “We became the face of Dallas sideshows in the past 11 months.”
Shipping container housing complex makes this Dallas news colorful They also come with a little patio.
Photo courtesy of Merriman Anderson/Architects In this weekly roundup of Dallas news, the city is trying to dig itself out of a big backlog in construction permits, and is also wading through a COVID-19 vaccine cluster. There s a new affordable housing development, and Dallas new police chief is taking care of business. Here s what happened in Dallas this week:
Home sweet shipping container There s a cool new apartment complex made of shipping containers being built in southeast Dallas. Called the Lomax Container Housing Project, it converts old shipping containers into affordable housing for Dallas residents.
Dallas City Council holds emergency meeting on COVID response
Dallas City Council holds emergency meeting on COVID response
Some members of the city council aren t happy with the mayor s role during the pandemic and met Monday night to ask for some changes.
DALLAS - The city of Dallas will start vaccinating people this week. It s getting about 5,0000 doses to do it.
But some members of the city council aren t happy with the mayor s role during the pandemic and met Monday night to ask for some changes.
Several city council members said there is confusion about the city s role in registering and administering COVID-19 vaccines. Some members said they didn t even know the city was getting its own vaccines until after they saw a press release.