Dallas Councilwoman Cara Mendelsohn Joins the RTRP!

Something else, when we're looking at property taxes in aggregate, obviously the city of Dallas is just one of the taxing entities, but fewer than 9% of eligible voters showed up for the Dallas ISD bond, a record in Texas state history.

Property taxes are going up there at the Dallas ISD level.

The most egregious and offensive issue that I have, we're also going to be voting in November on Dallas County's $100 million tax hike in perpetuity.

Again, there's absolutely zero planning or details other than just homelessness.

It's going to solve homelessness.

I heard you say at a recent meeting, you estimated Dallas County spends an aggregate $700 million on homelessness a year.

That's not doing it, but another $100 million will.

And now Dallas, the city of Dallas, is just dumping on another bond.

So if you are a Dallas homeowner, property owner, that's a triple whammy.

Plus, chances are your appraisal on your home went up this year as well.

Yeah, and I just want to clarify that $700 million number.

First of all, it's not up to date.

It's a couple of years old, but it's not how much Dallas County is spending on it.

What it is is a combination of federal, state, local dollars given to the nonprofits, their fundraising.

It's how much money is going into our system.

I mean, man, if you can't solve it with $700 million a year, and again, that's probably on the low side because that doesn't include the recent $10 million that the city gave, and then the county gave another $10 million to Housing Forward.

So, I mean, there's a lot of money flowing into that system.

And actually, just last Wednesday, I testified in Austin.

There's a select committee on government oversight.

And one of the things I was saying is that when government delegates its responsibility to nonprofits, the ability to have the transparency, the open records requests at the government level, in my case, of course, the city, should also follow those dollars so that you don't get a shielded nonprofit, sorry, we don't have to answer an open records request when it's doing the same work government would have done.

Because I do think that it's possible people could hide things behind nonprofit work by just giving that money away.

So we ought to make sure that we have that kind of transparency.

I can't believe you're so cynical.

I couldn't imagine that nonprofit grift occurring at the municipal or county level.

Wait a minute.

Something else, when we're looking at property taxes in aggregate, obviously the city of Dallas is just one of the taxing entities, but fewer than 9% of eligible voters showed up for the Dallas ISD bond, a record in Texas state history.

Property taxes are going up there at the Dallas ISD level.

The most egregious and offensive issue that I have, we're also going to be voting in November on Dallas County's $100 million tax hike in perpetuity.

Again, there's absolutely zero planning or details other than just homelessness.

It's going to solve homelessness.

I heard you say at a recent meeting, you estimated Dallas County spends an aggregate $700 million on homelessness a year.

That's not doing it, but another $100 million will.

And now Dallas, the city of Dallas, is just dumping on another bond.

So if you are a Dallas homeowner, property owner, that's a triple whammy.

Plus, chances are your appraisal on your home went up this year as well.

Yeah, and I just want to clarify that $700 million number.

First of all, it's not up to date.

It's a couple of years old, but it's not how much Dallas County is spending on it.

What it is is a combination of federal, state, local dollars given to the nonprofits, their fundraising.

It's how much money is going into our system.

I mean, man, if you can't solve it with $700 million a year, and again, that's probably on the low side because that doesn't include the recent $10 million that the city gave, and then the county gave another $10 million to Housing Forward.

So, I mean, there's a lot of money flowing into that system.

And actually, just last Wednesday, I testified in Austin.

There's a select committee on government oversight.

And one of the things I was saying is that when government delegates its responsibility to nonprofits, the ability to have the transparency, the open records requests at the government level, in my case, of course, the city, should also follow those dollars so that you don't get a shielded nonprofit, sorry, we don't have to answer an open records request when it's doing the same work government would have done.

Because I do think that it's possible people could hide things behind nonprofit work by just giving that money away.

So we ought to make sure that we have that kind of transparency.

I can't believe you're so cynical.

I couldn't imagine that nonprofit grift occurring at the municipal or county level.

Wait a minute.