Remarks by Mayor Jim Ross
164 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 7
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“And was I accurate with my understanding of the point difference on the two scenarios there? Yes, sir.”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Was there any way into any side or the other? Because I know one is a local Arlington law firm and one is not. are the one we currently use is not. Is there any weight given to a local business?”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Council, do you all have any questions? Do you want to run it through as is, or do you have any desire to address it differently?”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Okay. That answers my questions. Oh, Council Member Gonzalez.”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Yeah, I was just curious about the selection process, how the committee worked and all that stuff. I'm happy to, if, Council appears to be satisfied with the bid process here. I'm happy to leave it as is as well. All right, thanks guys, appreciate you. Anything else on evening agenda items? Okay, issues relative to City or TxDOT? One of these evenings, somebody's gonna have something on that. We could do that actually. So Trey and I recently had the opportunity to go sit down with the district engineer for TxDOT in the Fort Worth division and talked about the priorities of TxDOT and the Fort…”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Oh, and the last thing was the southeast connector and the tremendous progress that is being made on the southeast connector. If y'all haven't been down there lately, I-20, A-20 area, just tremendous stuff. That is, and Marty will attest to this, that is an economic engine once we get that thing complete. We'll see new businesses coming in there, places that people can go and kick off businesses. That's gonna be phenomenal. They're ahead of schedule down there. They're blowing and going and just making tremendous progress, so you know. Fort Worth Division is starting to get some legs…”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Okay. That's the first time we've ever talked about TxDOT projects. I'm going to take that off my bucket list. That's sad when your bucket list is talking about an agenda item on here. External committee reports, training reports from council will start with National League of Cities Finance, Raul Gonzalez.”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Okay, perfect. I'm gonna handle the North Texas Commission Board board meeting and executive committee meeting. We did this on September 17th of 2026. We had some major new investors that we ratified as board members by the executive committee that include a gentleman from McAdams, someone from the Fort Worth Economic Partnership, someone from Core Construction, the judge or the judge, the mayor from the city of Louisville, city of Denton, and the city of Irving all became major contributors and joined us on that. And Pogue Construction was also a major contributor. We got a legislative…”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Okay. Anybody have questions on that future agenda items? Yes, Council Member Pham.”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“I have a few items for future, yeah. Our neighbor to the south of us just passed a resolution opposing MISD's attempt to create single district representation of all of the MISD kids. we have a lot of MISD kids in Arlington. And I'd like to have discussions regarding a potential resolution opposing single district representation for MISD of our Arlington children.”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Okay. The second issue is I'd like for Gentsy and team to look at what we may need to do to help clarify any future or potential data center inquiries with our UDC. And the third thing is I have a town hall coming up on Thursday, and I've had a lot of discussions regarding the ADO already. I'd like to put the ADO back onto a future agenda to discuss it further about reinstating our anti-discrimination ordinance.”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“We agreed with that, didn't we? it back on the agenda to talk about it again.”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“You can't get into details. Don't start arguing with it now. But we're going to put it on the agenda and we're going to allow council to discuss it. Anybody else on future agenda items? Okay. With that, the afternoon session is adjourned.”
City Council · Sep 29, 2026
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“Well, good evening, everybody. Welcome to the Arlington City Council meeting. It is September 15th, 2026, and it is 6.30 p.m. We're going to go ahead and call the City Council meeting to order, and I'm going to invite Deacon Joe Ramos from St. Maria Goretti Catholic Church to please come forward and lead us with the invocation. Y'all please stand if you can.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. SECRETARY POMPEO, Honor the Texas flag.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you. Consideration of consent agenda, please.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you, ma'am. I have a motion from Council Member Hogg and a second from Council Member Gonzalez. Please cast your vote. The motion passes. We're going to go back to 6.2. I pulled that for separate consideration. Do we have any speakers on 6.2?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Spence, did you want to say something on 6.3? Molly's saying you did, so I'm assuming you did.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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City Council · Sep 15, 2026