Remarks by Mayor Jim Ross
164 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 7
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“Mayor, I got a quick question. Go ahead, Council Member Shelton.”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“I know that with me having an opportunity to meet everybody from the prime minister of Spain to the king of Jordan to all the council generals, they were floored by Arlington and they all knew where they were. there was no doubt about them being in Arlington, Texas. And in spite of everything else with Dallas being plastered on the stadium and all of that, they all knew that they were in Arlington, Texas. And it just speaks volumes for what our staff here in Arlington is capable of doing. So I appreciate y'all. Anybody, anything else? Council Member Gonzales.”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Okay, thank you. We're going to move on down from all the wonderful stuff at FIFA to talk about erosion policy at 3.2. Amy, you've got quite an act to follow now.”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Questions or comments from council? Council Member Galante. No, I've already called you. Go on. I want to get you over with.”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Thank you. Thank you for that, sir. Thank you. Council Member Pham.”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Let Amy address that. She's the engineer.”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“No, not what can we do. The argument that over the last 40 years, Arlington has grown so much that now we have more parking lots, we have more businesses, and we're causing The runoff into these private creeks that's doing the erosion is that the catalyst for this? Or what is causing the erosion over the years?”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“On a PID, you're going to have to have a buy-in from all the people affected by it as well.”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Which is a whole other... ball of wax. Here's my concern is we have a stormwater utility fee that all of us homeowners pay into. We can't realistically look at creating a creek erosion fee because when we do that, that's another form of taxation on our citizens, and we all pay into that, and then we're going to get a couple of issues that come up where A, I'm not having a creek or any erosion issues on my property, but I'm paying into it, which is much different than the storm water utility fee, and B, let's say we're able to get five to 10 million a year on a fee. Well, that doesn't begin to…”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“I think that's what we, we can look and, I think what we need to do, and that's not a job for Amy's team or anything like that, it's more of a job for our legislation, our legislative team, to say, listen, is there a way that we can get and it'd probably be best to wait till after November to see what happens and let things shake out, get to a point where we can leverage some of our representatives or senators, either at a state or federal level, to help communities, because this issue isn't unique to Arlington. It's happening all across our state, all across our country, and I think that…”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Okay? All right, thank you, Amy, I appreciate you. Okay, we're going to go on down to 3.3, Marty Weider, Opportunity Zones.”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“3.4, council priority, Jennifer Wickman.”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Council Member Gonzalez. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Jennifer. I didn't have a...”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Any other questions? Council Member Garcia-Dumont.”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Any other questions? Thank you, Jennifer.”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“We're going to move on and talk about our informal staff reports. Everybody's received the written reports in order to keep things moving along here since it's already almost five o'clock. We'll address any questions or concerns or comments you may have on a particular report. So let me first ask on 4.1, 2027 neighborhood matching grant call for projects. Any questions or comments for Cynthia? Seeing none, look at you, you got off easy today. Perfect. 4.2, update on efforts to combat human trafficking in Arlington. Questions or comments for Chief Jones? Okay, is Chief out there in the hallway…”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“It's okay, Chief. I'm taking full credit. laughter”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Any other questions or comments? Thank y'all. Appreciate you. We'll move on down to 4.3, questions or comments on data center background information. So, Jensi, I have one question. It sounds like we have a little bit of a gap on our UDC and how we address data centers on there. It looks like that could be something for a future agenda item for y'all to look at how we can better address data centers. We've sort of been lucky that we don't have a ton of them knocking on our door and saying we want to put them everywhere because we really don't have any way to specifically guide them through…”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Okay. I'll bring that up in the future agenda items then as one of my requests. So thank you.”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“All right, we're gonna move on down 4.4, Arlington Film Incentive Program. Any questions for Marty Weider? Seeing none, 4.5, Economic Development, Councilmember Mauricio Galante.”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Thank you. Councilmember Hunter, Arlington Housing Finance Corp.”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Okay, thank you. Evening agenda items. Anybody have questions on evening agenda items? Councilmember Shelton.”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Thank you, sir. I appreciate that. Anybody else on the evening agenda items? I have one issue. I don't know if anybody else has been contacted about this, but I have, and it's agenda 7.22 and 7.23 regarding our renewing of the contract for our tax collection and, oh, my mind just went blank. Court fees, thank you, Trey, I appreciate it. Who can answer some questions on that, Trey, who is it? Spencer?”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Perfect. I just need some clarification because we have really only two competing law firms in this scenario here, and I want to know how we came to the conclusion that we did with the, I think a four point difference on the court stuff and a 15 point difference on the tax issue and how that came about. And then I'll open it up to council to see if y'all want to. My understanding, we can either grant it the way it is or we could split it or do whatever y'all want to do with that.”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026