Southern Dallas Task Force: It's time for City Hall to put up

From: Dallas Morning News
BY: Rudolph Bush // September 24, 2009

Before the passage of yesterday's budget, leaders of Mayor Tom Leppert's Southern Dallas Task Force penned him a pretty pointed letter.

The message: There's been a lot of talk at City Hall about making Southern Dallas development happen. Now where's the money?

It wasn't as blunt as that. In fact it was very polite.

"As you might expect, the projects and goals promulgated by the various Areas and Committees of the Task Force will require a certain level of funding in order for them to be realized," the letter reads.

"Our goal, in seeking an allocation of capital from the City Fund, is simply to create a pool of resources that is dedicated to the projects being promoted by the Task Force, and that may be leveraged with private sector and/or public sector dollars."

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