DALLAS — The problems at Dallas’ City Hall are extensive and expensive.
“I would say that it is right now on life support. And it needs a lot to come back to the health that it needs to be a functional City Hall where we can conduct business in a proper environment without mold, without leaking parking garages that, literally, have waterfalls of water coming down every time it rains and to avoid the continued pipe bursts that we see in the building,” District 1 Council Member Chad West told us on Inside Texas Politics .
And that doesn’t even include the $500 million needed for deferred maintenance, which would be considered the basics just to keep the building open, never mind upgrades.
Chad West is the chair of the new Finance Committee, which will take up this issue in a couple o