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Irving council reviews compromise DART governance plan, urged to back legislative change
Summary
City staff presented a modified governance framework for the Dallas Area Rapid Transit board that would expand seats to 22, give Irving two full seats and preserve proportional voting while Dallas would hold a 45% minimum share; council debated finance trade-offs and whether redistributed sales-tax dollars should be tied to contributions or population.
City staff asked Irving’s council on Feb. 12 to consider a resolution supporting a negotiated change to the Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) governance model and to pursue the change at the next legislative session.
The working-group proposal would expand the DART board from 15 to 22 seats and give Irving two full seats in the new makeup, while retaining a proportional voting approach tied to population and sales-tax contributions. Staff said the modified framework responds to concerns from Dallas and other member cities and aims to prevent any single city from holding a board majority.
"I believe it addresses the core issues that we felt relative to our concerns about how the current DART board makeup is," a staff presenter said…
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