Dallas city manager brochure displays Houston skyline

Catch up quick: City Manager TC Broadnax resigned earlier this year, after seven tumultuous years in the position. He was the city's highest paid public official.

• Kimberly Bizor Tolbert from Broadnax's office was appointed as interim city manager. Broadnax is now Austin's city manager.

State of play: Dallas is paying national consultant Baker Tilly up to $134,375 to oversee the hiring of its city manager. The consulting firm's clients include Amarillo, El Paso and Sugar Land.

• The brochure draft created by Baker Tilly shows the city of Dallas logo over a photo of the Houston skyline, followed by seven pages about the city and its city manager role.
• The photo doesn't even show Reunion Tower, which has appeared in shows and has its own X account.

The intrigue: City Council members reviewing the brochure on Monday said it needs a lot more work, but didn't notice the main photo isn't Dallas.

• "I hate this photo. I don't think it's representative of Dallas, and I had to look at it for quite a few minutes before I realized it actually was the city," Council Member Cara Mendelsohn said during the meeting.
• She later learned that the skyline was actually Houston's. "That's kind of disturbing," she told NBC5.

What's next: Baker Tilly plans to revise the document by Wednesday. A Dallas City Council committee will review it before it's published next week.

The bottom (sky)line: Dallas' skyline is iconic. Houston's … is not.