The council deliberation is now set to occur June 23, which was already the planned date for the council to carry out an annual performance review for...
Dallas City Council meeting on whether to keep or fire City Manager T.C. Broadnax
The special called meeting Wednesday was outside of the council’s regularly scheduled briefings. Johnson issued a memo Friday seeking a closed executive session for the council to discuss Broadnax’s job performance. A separate memo issued by council members Paula Blackmon, Cara Mendelsohn and Gay Donnell Willis requested the specially called meeting Wednesday to allow the 15-member City Council to publicly vote on whether to keep or fire Broadnax.
Around 2:45 p.m. Tuesday, the mayor sent an email to all five council members after getting wind that several of them now wanted their names off the memo. Johnson told them to confirm by 5 p.m. whether they still wanted to discuss Broadnax’s job performance Wednesday. Bazaldua, who has been on vacation in Israel since Sunday, said Tuesday he wouldn’t have supported booting Broadnax this week.
Other council members who support keeping Broadnax say he is easy to work with, puts a focus on closing gaps of historic and systemic disparities in the city and is making progress on issues with Dallas’ building permitting system, which they viewed as the biggest blemish on his record.
“I just told them that I want them to be reasonable. That’s it,” Price said. “I understand the permitting issues and I understand some of them have their own issues and I get that. But this has gotten very public and very personal, especially with the mayor.” “I would venture to say that some of these actions are pretty borderline violation of ethics because you have intimidation and bullying,” she said. “It’s just an embarrassment.”The city’s firefighters union, the Dallas Firefighters Association,saying his decisions have hampered the safety of residents and staff.
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