Dallas City Council delays vote on City Hall repairs

Though a vote to redevelop Dallas City Hall was blocked by a judge Dallas City Council voted to delay approval of repairs on the structure on Wednesday.Nearly 200 people showed up to the city council meeting to voice their opinion on what the city should do with the I.M. Pei-designed structure.Dallas City Council voted to pause approval of a $770 million repair strategy for Dallas City Hall.Councilman Chad West raised the motion as a means to determine the cost of repairs against the cost of a new building.City council asked Kim Tolber, the Dallas City Manager, to explore options for disposing of the current city hall site and come back to the council in August.Before that vote took place, council members spent four hours in closed session debating whether the city should lease two new properties.The first would be for relocating the city's 911 and 311 centers, while the second would house other City Hall facilities and functions."July 7 ambush, next to impossible. Snow and ice, FIFA,