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Irving City Council candidates outline plans on trash pickup, police pay, housing and transparency at League forum
Summary
At a League of Women Voters forum, Irving City Council candidates pressed for return to twice-weekly trash pickup, higher police pay and faster infrastructure repairs; they debated housing strategies, parks and pools, and fiscal transparency including a $125 million city-hall consideration cited by a candidate.
At a League of Women Voters candidate forum in Irving, candidates for the Irving City Council detailed competing priorities that centered on sanitation, public safety, housing and questions about budget transparency.
"We need to return to twice a week trash pickup," said Matt Varble, a candidate who said he has been pressing the issue since October 2022 and who noted endorsement by the Irving Police Association. Varble also called for higher pay to recruit and retain police officers, saying Irving compensation is "only in the 65th percentile of all of Dallas–Fort Worth."
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