Subject: Government Services Committee

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  September 12, 2007

• How Vonciel Jones Hill Will Spend Valentine's Day

  February 12, 2008

• I'm Not Sellin' Anything To You

  February 25, 2008

• The Whore Truth About Tomorrow's City Council Meeting

  February 26, 2008

• If Nothing Else, It'd Mean Downtown Dallas Will Be Much, Much Brighter

  March 24, 2008

• City to Consider "Goodbye, Kitty" Ordinance

  April 28, 2008

• Love the Love Field Master Plan? Take a Look for Yourself.

  April 28, 2008

• A Music and Arts Education For All DISD Kids? Why, That's Elementary.

  June 9, 2008

• Keeping Tabs on the Garbage Man

  June 23, 2008

• Wanna Smoke in Dallas? Don’t Plan on Leaving the House.

  November 3, 2008

• Angela Hunt on City's Budget Crisis: "We're Cutting Muscle; We're Cutting Bone."

  Hey, at least Dallas doesn't have budget problems like Conan is facing out West. So we've got that going for us, which is nice.As we mentioned yesterday, the city council's Quality of Life & Government Services Committee got a look-see Monday afternoon at some of the proposed budget cuts before the full council is updated in a June 17 briefing. To close the $190 million deficit, City Manager Mary Suhm is recommending significant reductions in funds set aside for public libraries, swimming pools

  June 9, 2009

• With Clock About to Start Ticking on Federal Homeless Dough, Dallas City Council Spreads $5.3 Million Among 14 Nonprofits

  Hal SamplesLearn more about The Bridge, the city's homeless assistance center, in this week's Observer.The city council this morning approved three-year contracts totaling $5.3 million with 14 area nonprofit groups -- including The Salvation Army and Central Dallas Ministries -- to provide assistance to those on the verge of becoming homeless and folks recently finding themselves homeless. The council's Quality of Life & Government Services Committee received a briefing yesterday afternoon fro

  August 26, 2009