The race for Dallas City Council District 5 has been heating up. See what each of the candidates have to say about one another.
The same three candidates in District 5 ran in the last Dallas City Council race in 2021.City Council member Jaime Resendez has represented District 5 since 2019. He’s running for a third term against two opponents: Terrance L. Perkins, a pastor, and Yolanda Faye Williams, a paralegal and substitute teacher.
Before he was elected to the DISD school board, Resendez said he felt as though the district was being neglected. “We haven’t had the same type of attention and resources put into our area as other parts of the city,” he said. “That’s always been at the forefront of my mind as an elected official.” He said working in local government has shown him the importance of infrastructure and housing, but he’s been working to resist additional low-income housing tax credit projects in the district. He thinks the district has its fair share of projects built with the help of federal tax credits.“When I got on the council, the only developers that would reach out to me were people that wanted to utilize low-income tax credits to build more multi-family developments,” he said.
He’s also looking for more ways that the district could take advantage of the city’s upcoming LOOP Trail project, 50-mile citywide urban trail. “I think that creates a huge opportunity for southeast Dallas,” he said. Perkins had a similar criticism for Resendez. “The current council person is not accessible to the constituents in southeast Dallas,” he said. “A lot of people in the community feel left out, feel abandoned by the current councilman. The response time from his office is just not there, and it’s not cutting the mustard.”
Williams disputed this, saying she has no problem bringing people together. If elected, Perkins said he’d do a better job of getting the community involved by attending local crimewatch and homeowners’ association meetings.
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