Volunteers are helping rebuild fences around Bonton Farms, an organization that provides fresh produce to the community.
RICHARDSON, Texas — Richardson city councilmembers this week voted to consider a development agreementThe council voted unanimously to direct city manager Don Magner to notify JP-KBS Holdings LLC that the city considers its agreement to pay incentives on the project void and that it does not intend to make any more payments.The project plans go back to 2012, when developer Mark Jordan began discussing a mixed-use project with the city, known as the Palisades Project.
But as it turned out, then-Mayor Laura Maczka was involved in an affair and bribery scheme with Jordan, according to court documents in the case. “Given the outcome of the federal criminal cases of Mark and Laura Jordan, we believe the economic development agreement is void,” Magner said. “Since the federal convictions renders the economic development agreement void, we have not and will not make any payments associated with the agreement.”were both convicted by a jury During her time as the mayor of Richardson, from May 2013 through April 2015, Maczka and Jordan were involved in bribery schemes, according to court documents.
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