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Irving candidates stress infrastructure, jobs and COVID response at League forum
Summary
Mayoral and council candidates at the League of Women Voters forum emphasized infrastructure and jobs, broadly supported postponing a $563 million bond to May 2021, and outlined COVID-era measures including a proposed $1 million small-business relief fund.
At a League of Women Voters candidate forum in Irving, mayoral and council candidates framed infrastructure, economic recovery and pandemic response as their top priorities as the city heads toward the 2020 elections.
Mayor Rick Stoeffer, the incumbent, cited long-term service and economic growth as accomplishments and argued Irving has grown to be a major job center: “we have 240,000 people that live here, but we have 250,000 jobs.” He also described efforts to coordinate with state and county leaders on COVID-19 response and said the city planned a new small-business assistance measure: “we will have on our agenda this week…
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