Every vote, tied to the money that preceded it
Dallas publishes its agendas, minutes and roll-call votes through Legistar as structured data — which means the record of who voted for what is machine-readable, and can be lined up against the contract awards and zoning cases on the same agenda. Very little of that comparison has ever been done in public.
This is a question, not an accusation
No one at this Foundation has alleged that anybody in Dallas has done anything wrong, and nothing on this site should be read that way. Chapters are opened on structural risk — large capital programmes, fast growth, a single dominant employer, a utility or authority that meets away from the council — because those are the conditions under which decisions get made with nobody watching. That is a statement about attention, not about anybody's conduct.
Naming a city next to an accusation we have not documented would be precisely the thing this project exists to oppose. So the page you are reading names the question and the record that settles it, and then we go and ask for the record.
Legistar roll-call votes and matter histories, joined to the contract award items on the same agenda.
How this gets resolved
- Ask. A request goes to the City of Dallas under Tex. Gov't Code ch. 552. The City has ten (10) business days.
- Publish what comes back, whole. Released public records go up unredacted. We do not summarise a document in place of showing it, and we do not redact what the government already released.
- Publish what does not come back. A missed deadline, a refusal with no statute cited, an estimate that prices a resident out — those get published too, with dates. Silence is a finding.
- Rewrite this page. When the documents are in, this page stops being a question and becomes what the records showed — including if they showed nothing. A chapter that only ever reports wrongdoing is not doing arithmetic, it is doing marketing.
What you can do right now
You do not need us. The statute is yours, and a request from a resident of Dallas is harder to wave away than one from a nonprofit two states over.
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