The state of emergency declared by Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson last week will last through April 29, at least, the city council voted in a special called meeting that lasted from 10 a.m. to just before 7 p.m. and was punctuated by a few technical malfunctions thanks to a new need to have every member video conference.
Matt Goodman and Shawn Shinneman at our sister publication, D Magazine, covered the day-long meeting and wrote:
“The Dallas City Council on Wednesday extended its declaration of a state of emergency through April 29 at 11:59 p.m., deciding to give business owners a date they can point to — albeit a very, very precarious one — in which this might all be over. The vote passed 8-7, with the other Council members favoring an indefinite end point that would’ve granted Mayor Eric Johnson the ability to wipe the emergency declaration when he saw fit.”
