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  Join the MCBA Dallas City Council Engagement Initiative meeting
Wednesdays at 8:00am, contactAndrew
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**A Healthy Metroplex has Opportunity for All and Growth to Fuel It**

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**Our Community's Kids Deserve Better School**

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**Building and Zoning Codes Should be Clear and Objective**

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**MCBA's Capital Bond Transparency Recommendations**

On Friday, March 8, MCBA President and CEO Louis Darrouzet submitted an
official letter containing seven recommendations for transparency and
expenditure as a response to the city's proposed $1.25 billion Capital
Bond. The city council's proposal should deeply concern the business
community and all Dallas taxpayers, as it will place the city in an
unsustainable financial position for years to come. Read the MCBA letter
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**Apply for a Business Grant**

Our member companies are leaders in the DFW Metroplex because they've
invested in the community. Now, that investment just became easier
through Adopt-A-Block's new

**Cleanup Grant-**funding that will offset the material costs of
sponsorship and trash pickup.

Fill out a grant inquiry form
to get started.

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**Our Community's Kids Deserve Better Schools**

Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Stephanie Elizalde
has been laying the groundwork for a district realignment for months,
and some staff started feeling its effects this week. "We're not
going to have additional funds coming in," a district spokesperson
said. "This is a challenge that every district is facing."

Part of this realignment involves reassigning some staff and teachers.
The spokesperson said less than 1% of 12,000 campus-based staff and 0.5%
of all teachers in the district are being affected. "What we're
trying to do is relocate or try to find them a placement still within
the district," the spokesperson said. The teachers and staff were
notified this week that their positions would be affected.

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**Building and Zoning Codes Should be Clear and Objective**

In Dallas, the city's new office building for the department that
handles building permits is closed, due to building issues.

City employees were ordered out of the building at 7800 N. Stemmons
Freeway this week because of what a city spokesperson described in an
email to NBC 5 as a need for, "additional facility improvements."

The spokesperson told

**NBC 5 Investigates** the remaining improvements include work on the
building's fire suppression system along with elevator work and,
"other key tenant improvements".

The city would not answer more detailed questions Thursday about exactly
what is wrong with the fire suppression system.

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**Metroplex Civic and Business Association (MCBA)**

** **is a non-partisan, non-profit organization founded to ensure the
continued success and prosperity of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.
MCBA helps DFW businesses Educate, Empower, and Mobilize their
workforces through charitable and civic engagement.

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