DALLAS — Dallas City Council Member Paula Blackmon has requested that the Dallas County District Attorney open an investigation into whether four of her city council colleagues violated the Texas Open Meetings Act.

The four council members were reportedly meeting with folks from the Ashford Hospitality Trust, founded by hotel magnate Monty Bennett, who also spearheaded to the effort behind the controversial city propositions S, T and U, which among other things, require Dallas to hire more police officers.

Blackmon tells us they were discussing a proposal to possibly move The Bridge Homeless Recovery Center out of downtown to a new facility in the southern part of the city at the Dallas Executive Airport.

The problem, according to the District 9 council member, is that the presence of

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