While other Texas cities have moved to legalize possession of misdemeanor amounts of pot, Dallas has not joined them until now.
The city council was set to consider a number of amendments to the city charter on Wednesday ahead of the July breakThis coincides with the Dallas City Council's plan to present several city operation changes to voters this week. “ Dallas is by far the biggest city we’ve taken on,” Boellinger said. “I think this is something we can take and put into our community’s hands.”
She said that on Tuesday, the group verified 22,000 signatures before turning them into the city secretary’s office. The city council has an opportunity once every ten years to send charter amendments to voters for approval in the fall. The proposed amendments relate to council pay, the length of council terms, and moving City Council elections to rank-choice voting.
“It’s going to be on there anyway. We might as well save the resources and put it on ourselves,” West said.
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