Four Dallas City Council members on the Housing and Homelessness Solutions committee met with an outside group Tuesday morning without posting a public notice. Now, two other council members allege they violated the Texas Open Meetings Act.
Council members Cara Mendelsohn, Zarin Gracey, Lorie Blair, and Mayor Pro Tem Jesse Moreno met with a group of philanthropists who wanted to pitch an idea for homelessness services, Mendelsohn told KERA.
The meeting started at 10:23 a.m. with introductions lasting until 10:45 a.m, when Council Members Adam Bazaldua and Paula Blackmon entered the room, Mendelsohn said.
Mendelsohn, Gracey, Blair, Moreno, and Bazaldua are all on the Housing and Homelessness Solutions committee. Because four of the seven council members on the same committee were meeting at once, Bazaldua and Blackmon said in a joint statement that it constituted a quorum…