Remarks by Brittney Garcia-Dumas
23 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
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“Hi there. Darren and Josh, thank you so much for coming and for using your voice here tonight. Josh, thank you for coming to my office today and for having a conversation with me. Darren, Josh, Clifton, and your crew, thank you for being artists. Thank you for being artisans in a world that it's very difficult to be an artist. There's a lot telling you not to and I know financially even especially as a nonprofit It's very difficult to do But you guys really lift up the communities that you're in by being artists and doing what you do and holding that commitment to the arts So thank you so…”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Thank you, Marty. My pleasure. I was laughing because I love how much Marty loves economic development. He's the right man for the job. I don't know who this is to, but with Jason's question, that sounds like I would love to see the Innovate Arlington plan with a opportunity zone overlay. Could we see both of those together? Or form-based zoning with the opportunity zone on top? And we talked to John Chapman a little bit about There's so many different layers of the city and different things that apply to one place. I think these opportunity zones would be great to see that laid on top of…”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Does an opportunity zone apply to nonprofits or only for profit development?”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Hi Jennifer. I just want to give hats off to the library and Norma and her team. I mean everything that comes out of there is so fun and engaging the community. It's a free resource to our community and I want to encourage everyone to use the library. I guarantee you 50 percent of the things you do for fun, you could probably do for free at the library. It would help our city by using the library. I love Library Kit of the Month and I also hats off to Culture Pass. That's really exciting. It's engaging so many of our arts and non-profits and city funded organizations. I know that the library…”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“hi chief jones so i was the one who asked for this and you guys can see all of that in the staff report um this came from a report that we had at meadowbrook and so i followed all of it through and asked chief and um and tank who's over the heat team what is arlington's process how do we go about all of this and the things that i learned were just truly incredible and so A tremendous hats off to your team. Just really quick in there, I wanted you guys to know that in Dallas a few years ago, there was a huge investigation that said that there were hundreds of unprocessed rape kits that were…”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Absolutely. And when you compare what Arlington Police Department does and the work that you do, especially with the cities around us, it is head and shoulders above the rest and of how we're taking care of our residents. I wanted to know what happens when children are involved, what happens when it's a resident, what happens when it's sex trafficking versus a rape that happens for the first time. And The city of Arlington provides tremendous services to our residents, should they want them. Not every resident wants them. All of our children are referred to Alliance for Children. They all…”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Could you just very briefly talk about your relationship with Rescue Hill? It's an organization here in downtown.”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“I know that this is a dark subject and we hope to never have to discuss it with anybody that we know. Our crime is down in Arlington and that is all hats off to you guys. But this does still happen in Arlington and we need to be prepared. And my concern was, are we offering any type of resource to our residents who may go through what is the worst day of your entire life? And I was so pleased to know that yes, yes, yes, yes. There were so many resources and robust resources and time that's being put in. So I really appreciate your work and I appreciate your work, Chief Jones. Yes, ma'am.”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Hi, Howard. Hey. Thank you for bringing this to us, and I really appreciate the conversations that you're having with us about this. I don't love, as I call them, the butts of the retail showing to the street as well. And you mentioned Champions Park, but there's also South Lake Town Square. We have examples of it working well. And I know that there's talk about walkability, and I know that that's not the only thing that creates walkability. My concern about this retail space is, one, in this rendering right here, it's not actually all those clouds behind there. It's apartments and office…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thanks, Alex. I love the idea of a rental registration program, especially considering the rentals that we have now and kind of where the market is going. And in consideration of we want less apartments in certain areas, so let's make our rent houses really amenable to people. It also is great protection for renters rights as well I think that people sometimes think that renters come in and they devalue a house But there's only certain things that they have control over with the home and so this rental registration program It helps the neighbors it helps make sure that we have some more eyes…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“So I think just to chime in with that, the rental registration program would be citywide. So they don't have a citywide one in Fort Worth. It's like specialty for TCU and then bad actors. Those are the only two. The rest of it's voluntary. So I think what we're discussing here is a citywide rental registration program. But I will note to Council Member Ware's point that it really ensures that that historical area is It maintains just such a level of beauty over there. And I think what we're saying here is let's do that citywide. That's what makes us special.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Hi, Marty. Hi. I have a question. Asia Town Square, is that what's the new development in Benton? Or what is Asia Town Square?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“I know what Asia Times Square is. I know what it is.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“That's great. That answers that question. Yes, ma'am. And along with Bintan Plaza and Asia Times Square, always looking for what's the next thing in the international corridor as well. Do you have any kind of update or anything on the horizon or any great ideas for the international corridor? Sure.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Do we know about when we'll know when we get those or which opportunity zones we get?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Trey, thank you so much for this. Can you pull up that tax rate continuum? This is something that I had asked Trey to pull together. I think lots of us kind of contributed to needing this. Because I think when the residents see this, $2.2 million is a large number. But when you break it down, what is it actually going to cost the resident? And not even just the resident, but the entire... home as we break it down um i thought that this was just such a more clear look at that rub that's been discussed between raising the taxes and getting services from the city and so i know that i probably…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“And so that, I'm assuming it was, that's a strategically placed fire station, right?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Awesome. I also love that we have this option of, or we have so many options, but one of them presented is to be, as you said, to just do the streets, right? And I think we all hear all the time, fix the streets, fix roads. We have an opportunity to do that. And I say we take it. Because again, if we don't take it now, it will be more costly in the future. And this isn't 30 years down the road future. This is like two years from now future when things are even more expensive. And so I think we've done, and Trey, really, you have done such a great job in laying out what we get for what. And…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Council Member Garcia- Yes, I hear you that in the perfect world, we would not raise taxes and we would be able to have all of these things. I also know that only 13% of our UTA students remain here after they graduate. I also know that we are having difficulty getting people moving to this city and remaining here. I also know that we have a large population of people who are about to experience a property tax freeze. And one of my main missions while here on council is getting younger families to move here and live here and leave their legacy here and stay here for forever. So I hear you…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Yeah, I hear you that we do have a lot of stuff going on here locally. And it is our job to hear from our residents what matters to them. And what we have heard is that this matters to them. That what was originally proposed was a reduction of 45% of polling locations. That's wild. That is... We should never make it harder for someone to use their voice. It is difficult to do. It's an insult to democracy to make it more difficult to vote. And what the residents of District 5 that have weighed in on this have said is that this is very important to them, that this affects them. And they have…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“For the ACTC, there was discussion about creating a board specifically from members of the CVB. Did that get created?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Yeah, there's a community, there's a group of volunteers that regulates the ACTC, and there was discussion from Brent Durab that members from the CVB board would now become a part of that decision-making process.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026