{"id":402309,"date":"2026-08-10T04:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T04:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/402309\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T04:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T04:56:12","slug":"dallas-awaits-convention-costs-and-how-much-government-might-reimburse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/402309\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas awaits convention costs and how much government might reimburse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas officials expect to seek federal reimbursement for city resources used during President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/projects\/2026\/dallas-republican-midterm-convention-trump\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump\u2019s Republican midterm convention<\/a>, but they do not yet know the event\u2019s cost or how much the federal government would cover.<\/p>\n<p>City Manager Kimberly Bizor Tolbert, asked about the potential cost to taxpayers of the Sept. 9\u201310 gathering at the American Airlines Center, said she was awaiting more details about what the convention might require of the city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m hoping to hear more because I keep asking, when are we gonna know what they\u2019re doing?\u201d she said Friday after\u00a0speaking to The Dallas Morning News editorial board.<\/p>\n<p>Tolbert said that if the convention creates additional costs, the city would typically establish a separate pay code for officers to record the extra hours they work. That would allow Dallas to calculate its expenses and submit them for possible reimbursement, as it did for the FIFA World Cup events.<\/p>\n<p>She said federal reimbursement is common when an event requires the city to commit additional resources, but she did not know how much would be covered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGenerally, that\u2019s what happens if they\u2019re going to require us to pull a certain number of our resources to support it,\u201d Tolbert said. \u201cThen there\u2019s typically a federal government reimbursement. I just don\u2019t know what the level is going to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Public Safety Chief Dominique Artis said after The News meeting that detailed planning is only beginning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re just starting now to really get into how this thing is gonna roll out with the White House,\u201d Artis said. \u201cThey\u2019re taking the lead, and so as we go through the planning phase, we\u2019ll start understanding costs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tolbert said Dallas has the public safety network needed to support the Republican convention.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe good thing is that we have the infrastructure,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019ve got the public safety ecosystem that\u2019s important. They\u2019re kind of just controlling everything right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Eric Johnson spoke Tuesday at a media reception where he promoted Dallas as the convention\u2019s host city but made no mention of what the event could cost or whether city expenses would be fully reimbursed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas officials expect to seek federal reimbursement for city resources used during President Donald Trump\u2019s Republican midterm convention,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-402309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}