With 11 seats instead of nine, Fort Worth residents have many candidates seeking to represent them on the city council.
Fort Worth adopted a registration requirement and regulations for legally operating short-term rentals within specific zoning areas of the city.
Fort Worth will use taxpayer money to lobby for expanded broadband, early childhood education, and laws protecting people based on their sexual orientation.
Texas’ fifth-largest city may adopt a citizen advisory board that reviews “policies, procedures, and practices” of the Fort Worth Police Department.
Fort Worth plans to adopt new public comment rules that further limit the time citizens may speak at its business meetings.
State law allows citizens to record public meetings, but several governmental bodies in Tarrant County have removed Manuel Mata for doing so.
Fort Worth’s police oversight monitor received a grant from the Fund to Advance Racial Equity to establish a restorative justice program.
Fort Worth will begin a small, pilot Bitcoin mining operation with three machines donated by the Texas Blockchain Council.
The city council changed its meeting format, creating two public comment meetings each month, but some citizens feel it inconveniences them and inhibits participation.
Fort Worth is part of a competitive nationwide selection process to persuade Rivian electric vehicle manufacturing to come to the city.
As part of the effort to increase civilian oversight of the FWPD as recommended by the Task Force on Race and Culture, the city is moving toward creating a board known as a "mutual accountability group."
Trinity Metro, which operates TEXRail, is asking the City of Fort Worth for $86 million, most of which will be used to build a two-mile extension into the Medical District.
