Remarks by Dr. Jason Shelton
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City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“I don't have a question for him. I just want to make a point.”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Great presentations. Thank you all very much. I got a fun question. So I always think about what's next. Is it feasible that could we actually host the Olympics? I know we can't do it ourselves here in Arlington, but can we do this in light of hosting such an internationally focused event? Can we do something like that here? Is that the next thing here, or is that a bridge too far?”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“I don't see what's next after. I mean, that's got to be the next logical step.”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Sir, thanks for the presentation. I sort of have a love-hate relationship with Opportunity Zones. They're great, don't get me wrong. My hate is that back home in Ohio, our family business was taken through one through eminent domain years and years ago. Good Lord, it was 25 years ago. But I have to be honest and say, the city's vision for that property still exists today, and it's thriving in downtown Cleveland. So my point here is that I think this is great for our city, that we have this, but we've gotta be purposeful about where we want this to what we want in these particular locations as…”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“I don't have any questions, but I do want to revisit a spirited conversation we had during our last meeting about the issue of voting precincts here in Arlington. All of us got an email recently from Molly and her team. I asked them for some maps of the city and I want to give a shout out to Molly and her team for that great maps. Basically what they did is they asked for two sets of maps. One set of maps that looked at, imagine a map of the city of Arlington and the census tracts color coded by race and ethnicity, the majority of the racial group that lived in that census tract. And where…”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Is that a big difference per your scale? Four doesn't sound like a large number, but is the scale out of eight? Is the scale out of six?”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Out of 100. So the numbers are fairly close?”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Thank you. I did have a conversation with Trey about this this morning. And Trey, I think it would be helpful if you could share some of the points you shared with me this morning, sir.”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Yeah, I'm like the mayor and Tom. I'm pretty much going to vote for this. But what raised the red flag for me with respect to retail, and I live in South Arlington, so I have some friends in Verde, and I'm not up there very often. But I know that they want retail up there. But what raised the flag for me is, and please explain, a dentist, you know, a doctor's office, I feel like people, that's not the retail that I think Tom and I are sort of expecting is that I guess when I go hang out with my friends up there, I want to go eat. I want to go do a little shopping. I want to walk around. I…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Alex, thanks for the presentation, Alex. Clearly, this is an important issue of figuring out there's about 10 or 12 of those houses here so far that we know of that have all those bedrooms. I'm in favor of a little bit of all of those different options. But what I really want to get at is how do we, the 10 or 12 houses that we know of and the more that are probably out there that don't have the permits, how do we especially the 10 or 12 we have that have the permits. How do we go back and sort of dismantle those? How do we figure that out? Do we have to establish some new policy, some new…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Right. And that sounds like it's under that third option.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Trey, thanks a lot. Appreciate the presentation, sir. Forgive me, I've been here since 9 o'clock, and my brain is starting to get a little tired. But I think I heard you say something that I wanted to go back on. Did you say, sir, per that same slide that Brittany, excuse me, Council Member Dumas asked you to bring up, did you say that... that the average resident of our city might see taxes declined by $5? Did I hear you say that? Yes. You did? I heard that?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“OK. So let me also translate this, because again, I'm getting tired. Layman's terms, I remember in the last meeting we had, and Spencer was here, And I asked, what does all of this translate to overall? And at the time, you all were kind of theorizing and saying that it might cost us on a monthly base, the average household, about $15 a year. Right. And then now you've done the math, and you estimated it might have been $1.30 something, and now we're at $1.29. So, per Councilmember Garcia-Dumas' point, if this is true, Trey, I would love to encourage our colleagues here to consider this…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“But compared to Saturday, that's not a significant fall. In other words, if we were to bring it back, if we were able to have this program run on Sunday, in other words, people will be using the program significantly on Sunday as well, correct, ma'am?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Yes, ma'am. I'm off my horse, but I just want my colleagues to think about the importance of this in a city this size where people can't get to church on Sunday. And I know that's really important to a lot of us. Thank you very much.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Thank you. Councilmember Shelton. I just want to ask a final question, and I'm a player for Angel's Advocate, and that is, I swear I heard Trey say that the average local resident is going to experience a $5 decrease. So I hear y'all, but I mean, I kind of, I need to hear where, and I know that I'm outnumbered in the room, but I mean, can somebody tell me where the, if average person's gonna get the decrease?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“All of us experience and hear from our constituents about their perceptions of crime in the city and not feeling safe, regardless of how safe I feel in this city. And here we have an opportunity to bring back a program that's gonna help the APD and do a number of things that's gonna help the APD. So I think that a vast, a strong majority, of course you ain't gonna satisfy everybody, but a strong majority of people in this city are gonna be like, yo, you brought back the real time crime center? Yo, you got gas masks? You got these things to help people, help our APD? I just think that what…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“All right. So I appreciate you raising this issue. I'm on board with, of course I would love to see what the actual language would be, but definitely on board with a resolution that emphasizes that we wanna make it easy for people to vote in the great city of Arlington, Texas. And just for the sake of it, sir, I'm gonna fundamentally disagree with you about, I can tell you for certain at UT Arlington, my students, my staff members, faculty members, people I've known at the university for decades, talking about how hard it was to go figure out what to do now after they have relied on UTA as a…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026