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Patterson was a caseworker for the Dallas County Department of Public Welfare for fifteen years. [1] In 1963 she was promoted to supervisor of casework services. In 1968, she was the first African American woman to serve as Director of the Inter-Agency Project of the Community Council of Greater Dallas, heading the work done to coordinate resources in the Crossroads Community Center.
The Dallas City Council serves as the legislative body in the City of Dallas. It consists of 14 members. City council members are chosen by plurality elections in each of fourteen districts. The city operates under a council-manager system of local governance.
The government in Dallas, Texas is primarily vested in the Dallas City Council, Mayor, and City Manager. There is also the Dallas Police Department, Dallas Fire-Rescue, and the Dallas municipal courts. In the 2006–2007 fiscal year, the city's total budget was $2.3 billion.
The 2021 Dallas City Council election will determine all 14 city council members in Dallas, Texas. [1] The election occurred on May 1, 2021. [2] By law, Dallas municipal elections are nonpartisan. [3] In races where no candidate took a majority of over 50% of the total vote, the two top vote-earners advanced to a runoff election.
Albert Louis "Al" Lipscomb (15 June 1925 – 18 June 2011) was a seven-term Dallas City Council member and a longtime advocate for civil rights.He was the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit in the 1970s that successfully challenged Dallas' system of electing every council member citywide, forcing the city to change to a mostly single-member district system.
Oak Cliff is represented by four members of the Dallas City Council, out of a total of fourteen council members for the city as a whole. Using the boundaries described above, two of the council districts fall completely in Oak Cliff (Districts 1 and 4), while two others partially represent Oak Cliff (Districts 3 and 8).
Dallas Housing Authority (DHA) is the public housing authority of Dallas, Texas. The Mayor of Dallas appoints the DHA's five-member governing board, and the board selects the DHA's president. [ 1 ]
Adlene Nathanson Harrison (November 19, 1923 – February 19, 2022) was an American politician who served on the Dallas City Council from 1973 to 1977, [1] and was acting mayor of Dallas in 1976. [2] [3] Harrison was elected as city councilwoman three times. [4]