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    City News Roundup

    Fair Park and DART are hot topics in this week's Dallas city news

    Steve Dickerson
    Nov 18, 2016 | 2:46 pm
    Fair Park with Big Tex in the background
    State Fair of Texas is keeping things under its hat.
    Photo by Jason Hays

    The Dallas city pension fund could break the bank, the State Fair folks are facing sanctions, and the DART board has a vacancy. Here are this week's top stories in Dallas city news:

     

     Pension mess
    A looming emergency over the Dallas Police and Fire Pension Fund could have disastrous implications for the city, including bankruptcy. Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings said as much while meeting with state officials in Austin in early November.

     

    The mayor asked the state to give the city control of the pension fund. Currently pension fund members approve the fund benefits. Rawlings compared it to a "Bernie Madoff scheme."

     

    In order for the state to give the city control of the pension fund, state law will have to be changed.

     

    Earlier in the week, a judge gave the Dallas and Fire Pension more time to prove that its expansion of its board of trustees was legal. The ruling comes after several officers filed a lawsuit against the group. The police and fire fighters filed suit to attempt to stop the trustees from cutting benefits. The suit claims that the board has been operating illegally since it began expanding its members from the original seven-member board.

     

    The lawsuit was filed on the eve of an election of several amendments, meant to rescue the fund from collapse within the next 12 years, according to the Dallas Morning News. Pension officials want a $1 billion taxpayer bailout on top of the benefit cuts in 2018. Rawlings warned that the bailout could be disastrous.

     

    Frontburner dug back to the early roots of the pension mess. In 1992, the board — consisting of council members Charlotte Mayes, Mattie Nash, and Charles Tandy; fire employees Gerald Brown and Charles Luedeker; and police officers Larry Eddington and John Mays — approved a program called the Deferred Retirement Option Plan, or DROP, a risky venture that promised unrealistically high returns.

     

     State Fair slacking
    A court battle is underway to force the State Fair of Texas to turn over records that could reveal secret financial arrangements.

     

    A post on watchdog.org follows Jennifer Riggs, an Austin attorney, who filed an open records request with the State Fair last year. Her request asks for financial records, contracts, and correspondence between executives and Dallas officials. The Fair claimed that it wasn’t a government agency subject to public records laws.

     

    For the next 19 months, Riggs and the State Fair were tied up in court until Judge Staci Williams sided with Riggs. The judge also imposed sanctions on the fair for abusing the court system. Those sanctions were overturned on appeal. The fair dropped its case, but while the case was in court, fair executives were able to avoid giving potentially damaging depositions while a highly publicized plan to privatize the park was underway.

     

    Riggs filed a motion this week asking the court to again impose sanctions on the State Fair.

     

     DART board candidates
    The board that oversees DART has a vacancy, and two candidates were reviewed for the slot by the Dallas City Council's Transportation Committee: Howard Gilberg, an environmental lawyer nominated by committee chairman Lee Kleinman; and Patrick Kennedy, founder of Walkable DFW and an urban planning whiz.

     

    Kennedy is a longtime advocate for better city planning. Gilberg admitted during his interview that he was "not an expert on DART," and knew only what he'd read in the newspaper. But the committee voted to recommend Gilberg.

     

    The appointment still has to be approved by the city council. Committee member Sandy Greyson said she would seek a full council vote on Kennedy instead.

     
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    Exclusive enclaves

    3 affluent Dallas neighbors dominate new list of wealthiest U.S. suburbs

    Amber Heckler
    Jul 17, 2025 | 10:00 am
    3540 Wentwood Drive, University Park home for sale
    Photo courtesy of Estately
    This over-the-top mansion in University Park is on the market for $7.2 million.

    Three well-to-do Dallas-area communities - University Park, Southlake, and Colleyville - are among the wealthiest suburbs in America in 2025, a new report has confirmed.

    The three affluent Dallas neighbors were lauded in GoBankingRates just-released ranking of the 50 wealthiest U.S. suburbs, based on 2022 and 2023 average household income data sourced from the U.S. Census Bureau.

    University Park ranked as the sixth wealthiest suburb for the second consecutive year, while Southlake moved up into the No. 7 spot after earning a No. 13-rank in 2024.

    Meanwhile, Colleyville made its 2025 debut on the list as the 47th wealthiest American suburb.

    Compared to last year's report, the average income for a University Park household has increased by $8,633, to $389,868. The value of the typical home in this affluent Dallas enclave is in the seven-figure range, surpassing $2.45 million in May, which the report noted is 5 percent higher than it was this time last year.

    University Park's prosperity is no secret; it ranked as the fourth wealthiest U.S. suburb in GoBankingRates' 2023 report.

      1737 Tuscan Ridge Circle, Southlake home for sale Southlake also boasts many charming homes for hefty price tags. This home on Tuscan Ridge Circle is for sale for $1.25 million.Photo courtesy of Estately

    Southlake (No. 7) made a substantial climb up the chart from its 2024 rankings, as did its average household income ($382,520 compared to $360,078 last year). The typical home value for a Southlake home in May came out to more than $1.29 million, up from $1.24 million in the 2024 report.

    Earlier this year, Southlake nearly topped a separate list of the best suburbs to live in America, also in part thanks to its residents' high median income.

    Newcomer Colleyville (No. 47) entered the 2025 rankings with an average household income of $265,831 according to GoBankingRates' findings, and a typical home value of $923,032.

    Dallas-Fort Worth was the only metro in Texas to have three entries on this year's list.

    Elsewhere in Texas
    Two Houston-area suburbs, West University Place and Bellaire, were returnees in the 2025 report. West U held on to its top-three spot for the second year in a row, while Bellaire moved up two places and is now the 23rd most affluent American suburb.

    The top 10 wealthiest suburbs in America for 2025 are:

    • No. 1 – Scarsdale, New York (New York City)
    • No. 2 – Rye, New York (New York City)
    • No. 3 – West University Place, Texas (Houston)
    • No. 4 – Los Altos, California (San Jose)
    • No. 5 – Alamo, California (Oakland)
    • No. 6 – University Park, Texas (Dallas)
    • No. 7 – Southlake, Texas (Fort Worth)
    • No. 8 – Hinsdale, Illinois (Chicago)
    • No. 9 – Orinda, California (Oakland)
    • No. 10 – Wellesley, Massachusetts (Boston)
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