Board of Directors - Regular Meeting

Good evening. I would like to call to order the September 1st, 2026 Little Rock City Board of Directors meeting. We would like to welcome those in attendance as well as those watching at home or streaming online. Madam Clerk, would you please call the roll?

Director Miller, Director Richardson, Director Webb, Director Peck, Director Hines, Director Lewis, Director Comperis, Director Phillips, Director Adcock, Vice Mayor Weirich, Mayor Scott.

Present. Let me now recognize Director Phillips for a brief invocation.

Absolutely. If we will humble ourselves. Dear Lord, we come to you recognizing you as the giver of all wisdom. And in your word, it teaches us to ask for wisdom and you shall give it to us. So we ask you to give wisdom to everyone on the city board and everyone who works on behalf of the citizens of Little Rock. so we can do the work that you call for us to do. It's in Jesus' name that I pray. Amen.

Amen. We please stand for a pledge of allegiance. We'll ask our friends from Goodness Village to join me. Members of the board, we want to share a proclamation on behalf of Goodness Village and all the goodness that they share. Whereas Goodness Village has served the community for more than 30 years, and been a place of respite and support to patients seeking medical treatment and their families in Little Rock. And whereas Goodness Village is a place where families can focus on relaxation and recovery during challenging times, offering affordable apartments near medical facilities, reducing the stress and burden associated with medical treatments. And whereas Goodness Village served more than 500 guests from across Arkansas and around the world, providing more than 7,000 nights of lodging and a deep discount for individuals being treated at local hospitals for any type of medical condition. And whereas families can remain together to cook their own meals, do their own laundry, and create a true home away from home in a fully furnished apartment. And whereas Goodness Village is supported by more than 800 dedicated volunteers, including church groups, school groups, businesses and others who help deliver meals, celebrate major events and milestones, and provide encouragement to guests. And whereas at the heart of this effort is a core group of 40 volunteers who regularly offer their time and talents to build meaningful connections with guests and their families. Now, therefore, I, Frank Scott Jr., Mayor of the City of Little Rock, Arkansas, do hereby proclaim September 17, 2026, Day and Evening of Goodness. Let's give them a round of applause.

Thank you so much for allowing us to come and providing this proclamation, a day of proclamation for our day of goodness. And so this is our third year to come and share about our organization. And I think we're making some leeway where we're bringing some awareness about Goodness Village. Little Rock's a big medical hub, as you all know, and we are so fortunate. to be able to join arms with so many people in this community who are helping us make a difference. And so thank you for the opportunity. I want to invite you all to our day and evening of goodness. We've still got a few seats left. I do have an invitation that you can share with your friends. Yes, please share with everybody. But just come in and our day of goodness and we've got tours going on all day. Meet the staff and get a glimpse of what we're doing in our city, but appreciate your support and just really want to join arms with you all and the efforts as the city continues to grow with all the different medical facilities here in Little Rock and across Arkansas. So we're very proud to join arms with the other medical facilities, housing facilities rather, and just making an impact together. And that's what it's all about. It's working together for the benefit of the patient. So thank you so much.

Members of the City Board, we'll have a brief presentation from Director Willie Hinton on the fleet replacing strategy.

Good evening, members of the Board, Mayor, Mr. Manager. A few months ago, Director Comperius asked for this study. And it was timely, timely request. And thank you for asking for it. I think we will get to where you wanted to get to tonight. So without a lot of ado, in the study, there's 1,355 assets that we're concentrating on. In the fleet system, we have 1,700 and 41 assets at this moment. A lot of those assets has been around here since before the mayor was born, literally. And I did not detail them in this study. They have obviously been replaced already. So we're going to concentrate on the stuff that we truly need to be concentrating on replacing over and over again. So that's what I'm going to lead us through. So we did this over a 20 year horizon. The first 10 is front loaded. We have multiple replacement cycles for police vehicles. We have multiple replacement cycles for some refuse vehicles in here so that it will set the stage for where I think he's trying to arrive to. So I did it by the five funds. So if you'll just turn, go to the next slide, please. Oh, boy. You really. High technology here now. I might turn it off. So the next slide you can read without me going through it. All I'll say is this is the methodology in which I used, right? There's a few things I probably shouldn't mention. Like I said earlier, there are vehicles in here, carts in here, trucks in here that we have replaced multiple times in this cycle. For instance, we're adding some vehicles this year. Those vehicles will get replaced in 2033 and in 2039. So that's the basis for that. And then I've already talked about the stuff that is either sitting over there that has not been disposed of and the stuff that people have kept for reserves and we've already replaced them. That's stuff I've taken out of this study. The only other thing I'll point out on that page is fire apparatus still has a very long lead time. So on the next one, I did it right. These are the five funds. Out of that $257 million, the general fund accounts for $127 million of those dollars over the entire 20-year period, right? the general fund actually consumes the most of that $257 million. The waste fund has $84 million sitting in it. The street fund, $41 million. Fleet fund, $3.5 million. And vehicle storage, then, is about a million bucks over the period. The next slide, obviously, is the police department. The police department consumes most of the funds that we use in replacement in the city. They consume 57 million dollars basically out of that 127 million dollars that we were talking about. And you can see what it's consumed on. The SUVs that's listed at the top, 252 of those are patrol vehicles. Those patrol vehicles with communications equipment in it ranges from between $86,000 and $90,000 over the period. We do have some pursuit rated pickups that you'll see on the next line. We have 26 of those actually.

Yeah.

No, we actually have 30. The canines are not represented in here. We left them out for some reason. And then you can see the rest of it. I think this slide is pretty self-explanatory. The one thing that I should say is the 463 assets is the total number of police assets that we're working with. The 805 replacement events is, again, because some vehicles have been replaced multiple times in the study. The next slide is fire. They have 108 assets that we're tracking through the study. And you can see most of their spend is spent on pumpers and ladder trucks. They have basically $43 million over the period. And as you will see, most of their apparatus is back loaded in the second decade. And you can see then the average for a pumper on this is $1 million. The average for a ladder truck is $2 million. Y'all have heard that over and over again. Thought I'd point it out to you again. Solid waste is the next biggest one. 131 assets, 270 replacement events. that we're looking at, they have $84 million over the period. And that's all in the waste fund, obviously. Streets, that has two sections on it because of the way some things are described in our system. But streets actually fund both of these. The way things are set up and faster, vehicles for administration, for signals, and for parking enforcement. It looks like it's in the general fund, but I believe all that's funded out of streets. So all of this belongs together. And you can see what their events are. So it's $40,000. $1 million over the period in there for streets. And all of that's coming out of the street fund. Next slide is parks. Parks has been seriously underfunded for years. But over the whole period, we need about $13.5 million to actually fund parks, trucks, pickups, mowers, vans, and tractors. I think you all got the flow of the slides now. So unless there's something that jumps off the page at you, I'll just move to the next slide. The housing department has 111 assets. He has $7.5 million over the period in this. And you can see the replacement cycles there. And then Zu has 57 assets, 119 replacement events. Her carts and some of the other things she used over there has been replaced three or four times during this period. Some of her carts last five to six years. And that's about the extent of it. Then fleet services, $3.5 million over the period. Vehicle storage. Oh, I'm sorry. I got to move this. So there was fleet. There's vehicle storage. Million dollars over the entire period. And then I put all the other departments on a single slide where you can see where planning is. A million and a half dollars, public works building services, $890 million technically. Some of the pool vehicles and stuff that we keep at City Hall, pickups and trailer, whatever, less than a million. IT, less than a million. And then community services has one vehicle that will be be replaced multiple times during the period. Now, I won't go over the key takeaways because it's just saying what I regurgitated many times. So I'm going to go to this next slide. And then it shows you the breakout of the different departments by the first decade over the period. And there's a couple of things I want to point out here. Under the green banner, that's a near peak event. What that is coming from is the vehicles that we're adding into the police department next year, right? That's what that's coming from, the near peak event. The other one is a peak event, and it's because that particular year is 2033. We have a over a $20 million period. That's a peak event. I can tell you what's happening there is in that particular year, we have in the waste department, those vehicles that we're buying now, the side loaders and rear loaders and some of the other things, will be being replaced again in that year. So that's where that peak event comes from. Also, we will be having a major police replacement cycle in that year, where both the unmarked and the marked vehicles will be being replaced that year. That's where that peak event comes from. So just so that you're aware, that's what that is. And then next slide just details out the next decade. I've loaded most of our information into the first 10 years, with the exception of the ones that had long lead times that fell into the second decade. As we detail out more years beyond 2036, this will fill in more over in the second decade. But the first decade is pretty solid, and where we're going to take our averages from in a minute. So on slide 17, then. you can see by fund, by year for the first decade, what our spend is. And if you take a look at this, under the general fund, you see 2026, a lot of our stuff has already been done. So it's not showing a lot of dollars left. That is for some vehicles that we still have coming in. And then in 2035, We talked about that peak event a while ago. So you can see, if you drop those two out, then our spend over the years is relatively consistent, right around $8 million per year out of the general fund. That's what that represents. And you can also see then, if you drop the high and low out of streets, it's relatively consistent around $2 million. That'll be in another slide in just a minute. Let's talk about waste. So as a general rule, useful life means the useful life of the vehicle. In Little Rock, waste vehicles has a 7 to 10 year lifespan, not a 10 to 12. Little Rock is hilly. Little Rock is hot. And the environment that they use refuse vehicles in is not the cleanest in the world. So he's on the shorter side of that lifespan. But the other thing that you can say about his vehicle is they have a preferred life cycle. They would like to replace their vehicles in three to five years. In three years, his vehicle still have 50% value left in it. In five years, he still will have around 30% value left in it. What that means to him is he don't start going through those maintenance spikes, which we will spend another $200,000 or $300,000 on the vehicle just to fix it. He won't have it because it's in the shop getting fixed. And he won't be able to use that money that's left to actually bring down the cost of the next vehicle that he can get to stay out of those high maintenance cost events, as well as not have downtime in his department. which is where a lot of money is, and that's a calculation me and him made. It just proves this fact that we, in those years then, that you see that we have a million and a half or $2 million in spend. If we get rid of some of those other vehicles a little earlier, we can spread out that spend, and this average would come out to being around $5 million a year.

out of the waste fund.

So the last thing I'll say is the reason why I put this slide in here, the last one, was something that we did in the private sector. We like smoothing things out and levelizing it so that over the years, we don't have all these peaks. We loved it when we didn't spend a lot of money. But when we had spent $25 million versus spending $15 million, Somebody had to go in there and explain that. And it's simply because we weren't planning far enough ahead to keep these peaks smoothed out. So at the end of the day, y'all can read this slide as well as I can. The $15 million is what we need between all the funds to be spent on fleet replacements. I'll take questions. Director Contreras.

Willie, thank you. I'm going to have to study this a lot more now. We've got a lot of information out here. But you think we are in sound footing in replacing everything we need to do at $15 million a year?

I do, as long as we remember we have to smooth those peaks and do things like what I just talked about. Yes, I do.

Going back to, I don't know which slide, for fiscal year 2027 was one of the peaks, and the waste and police you said were additions to it. That's the reason they're going to be so high.

That's right. So we have been talking about 2027 for a while now. We're adding some additional pursuit rated vehicles in 2027. That's what's going to bring the near peak to where it's going to be.

Okay. So when we start the budget process, do we have to plan on an extra $6 million, or has the money already been put away?

It has not been put away. That's something that we're working on. We're talking about leasing those vehicles, by the way. You're talking about what? Leasing those vehicles so that we can actually get them into service.

But if we bought the vehicles, we'd have to find $6 million in our budget.

That is correct. Yes, sir.

And then the police cars you talked about, Before, where are they right now? Before. The extra police cars that we were going to purchase or lease earlier?

They are being, some of them are at the dealership. Some of them are moving to the upfitters at this very moment.

Okay.

And when are they going to be on the street?

If I have my way, they'll be on the street in the next four to five days. It'll be the fastest we've ever gotten an outfit done.

By the end of the year. Okay. Let's not put hopes up just because things happen. But the fact of the matter is they're ordered, they're en route, things take time. We had to wait for it. Manufacturer, transportation, so I don't want to set up a false expectation, even though I know you're going to work under promise and over deliver. That's true. All right. Thank you, sir. Director Hines.

Willie, thanks. I know we've had some discussions about this offline. So I think the big question in everyone's minds, because this all rolled back to our single-use police fleet, back to last year's budgeting in November and December, what's the date that we get to single-use fleet in police departments?

So we have to add those other vehicles at 27. Once we add those vehicles at 27 and And some conversation between me and Nick we we plan to have those here in the second quarter It'll take us a quarter to get them rolled out, right?

So next year we should achieve signal use okay, and I think the dissonance with a lot of us is that when we had conversations and That we thought we had more and more vehicles coming in and coming in faster And I think that's the frustration on the PD's depart parks With the Reagan file guys I'm talking to, I think we all thought when the mayor committed we'd have the funds that we'd be much further along this year than going into next year. And I appreciate that. How long has this been ready to present to us? Because I thought we were supposed to get it earlier in the year.

That came off the presses yesterday. What I did earlier in the year was did a state around police vehicles. Okay. Right. So, and we can talk, have that conversation anytime we want. But Director Compeers asked for this a few months ago, and we had some data that I had to clean up before I would present this thing because I'm not going to come in here and present something and have to come back and say, I was only kidding.

And I want to be clear, we can roll back the tape. I think I even made the comment at that board meeting that made that commitment subject to the manufacturer and all those intricacies that happened and so I'm glad that my word was bond still subject to those individuals so Director Phillips Thank you mayor Thank You director hidden for this Excuse me, I think director compares and director has asked most of my questions, but I just want to get some clarity on

about the single use vehicles. The idea behind that is once we go single use, that extends the life and lowers the cost. Is that a fair summation or am I misremembering?

That is a fair summation. You will extend the life of the vehicle from two and a half to three years. Just because we keep them for 10 years don't mean they're using them. They're out there with us multiple times to be fixed. A pursuit rated vehicle We have some in the fleet at this very moment with 200,000 miles on it. That's the miles. They have 30,000 hours on them. Those hours is equal to 33 miles for every one of those hours. That's the reason why they stay in the shop all the time, right? So we get to single use. We spread the life of five to six. In some cases, seven years, depending on which precinct it's rolling around in. That saves you tons of money in maintenance alone. And one of the other things that we did, we're going to a full hybrid fleet. Those hybrid vehicles, 2025 models and forward, saves us 800 gallons of petrochemical per vehicle per year. That's a lot of money. So that's going to help us actually pay some of this stuff just by saving fuel. But we will save a ton of money on maintenance alone, right? And the other thing is they will have enough vehicles not to have two people messing them up.

Okay, thank you for that. And I think I have two more questions. You just raised one. So is there, I know you're talking about hybrid, and I know the city has a I don't know how many, but a handful of electric vehicles. Is that part of the calculation when we think about this?

So I have to tell you this. I didn't calculate any electric vehicles in here, but you would be surprised of the people that pushed back the hardest on electric vehicles until they got some. So part of our plan for SROs, right? Man, Chief Miller had this conversation. SROs and electric vehicles but charges at schools so that there ain't no excuse for not putting those in there and that again saves just tons of gas and it keeps people one of the things men Chief Miller totally agree about agree upon and so does he patrol cars are for patrolmen they are not for show they're not to set somewhere to influence somebody they are to be only patrolmen, because that's what they bought for. And they cost almost $90,000. So yeah, we are still moving forward with our electric vehicle plan.

We have not got off of that. And the police is part of that. But that's not included in here. So theoretically, and I'm thinking very big picture, if we added more electric vehicles, some of these numbers may be lower in the future. Yes, very generally speaking.

Very well could be. And the acceptance in that department is totally different than what it used to be. We gave them, I believe, 10? I think they have seven electric vehicles, and they swear they want one. And now every time I talk to one of them, they want one. We need to get some more. I said, well, we're working on it. So the acceptance is there.

And my last question, the calculations, I guess these are based on today's prices, right? So in theory, when we buy something in 2030, it could cost more than what we expect it to cost today.

So I put a half percent per year inflation factor on the stuff that's in this plan. OK. So that's there. What I wanted to do and I couldn't do because we haven't kept the inflation factors in faster, and we haven't kept the useful life figures right, and we haven't kept the salvage values right. You can't figure depreciation correctly without that. So I'm going to fix that, and then I'll be able to answer you better about what those factors are. But I did put a half percent per year in there for inflation factor in this play.

And I said that was my last question, but true lawyer fashion, I have one more last question. If I understand Director Comperis' question correctly and your answer, we're going to need more money than we've been spending to have the appropriate amount of fleet that we need going forward. Oh, yes, sir. Oh, absolutely.

Now, let me qualify that. I'll say this. I think you ain't spending the money, but we buy a whole lot of parts that we wouldn't have to buy if we did this. And We spent a whole lot of money on gas that we wouldn't have to do if we do the other thing and if we actually manage that process a little bit better. There's a lot of money that would be had. And the other thing that's not here, and we've done this, so when we get rid of unmarked police vehicles, we get 20%, 25%, 30% back for the vehicle that we're getting rid of. You ain't gonna get that for the patrol vehicles, but you can get that for the unmarked stuff and for Kevin's stuff and for some of Leland's and Some of his right you can get some return you ain't gonna get on fire truck, but that Salvage figure it's important. That's the reason why I mentioned it a while ago so and We did a lease replacement cycle this past couple years We got a million dollars back on those vehicles. And we applied it to the next set that we got. And we'll do that over and over again. So that's why we need to manage replacing the fleet on time.

I understand. Thank you, Director Hinton. Looks like you did a lot of work to get to this point to present to us today. So I appreciate your work and the presentation. That's all I have, Mayor.

And so thank you, Director Phillips. Again, board members, I want to remind you, as we shared at the last budget meeting, there is a true need to have a true replacement uh, fleet replacement fund, uh, that we have not had that's sustainable. Um, even though director hitting the share with you, we'll get to a single use fleet in 27. We got the, we already got the cars available. They're coming right now. That's through 27. Eventually those vehicles are going to get, uh, used and we got to have those funding. So when you go back to that number 15, that's a Delta of about $7 million, give or take $67 million, uh, each year that's not in the budget right now. And the question is, where can we get that from? Well, remember, there are many times that we have different things that the city board prioritizes. And that's the reason why we had a true fleet replacement fund in the sales tax initiative as well. And so just know that to truly get to that, we got to have that sustainable funding somewhere. Vice Mayor White.

Thank you. Thank you, Willie, for this report. I have a lot of questions, but I'll have to digest this a little bit more. Okay. How many vehicles for the police department are coming, you said in four or five days, the mayor said by the end of the year. How many vehicles?

So we have 36 vehicles, either already at the dealership, some of them are delivering to the upstair, and some of them are still on the railhead. But that's 36 vehicles. Okay.

And of those, how many of them are hybrid?

All of them.

Okay, so these 36 are not going to patrol?

They are. Why wouldn't they go to patrol?

Because you said you were going to put the hybrids with the SROs.

No, electric. Electric and hybrid is two different things. A hybrid is an electric and gas unit.

Okay, okay. So all of these that are coming in are hybrid vehicles?

Yes, ma'am.

And are other police departments around the United States going to hybrid cars for police cars?

All over the nation.

All over the nation?

It's Ford's preferred vehicle. That's what they make the most of now. That's what they sell the most of.

OK. The other question I have is, in 2027, where you show that 6.6 million in the red, how many vehicles does that represent?

For the police for the place 80 there's 80 and 58 of them or additions 22 of them are to replace some of the 18 models that we have here 58 or additions and how many replacements 22 22 Okay, and are those hybrids? Yes, ma'am.

Okay All right Okay, I was glad to hear about the inflation factor. Not sure if that's going to be enough in today's world or not. I think you're right about that. Yeah, at least you've got something in there. Okay, that's what I need to know. Thank you. Appreciate you.

You're welcome. Director Peck.

Thanks, Willie. You mentioned leasing. Could you go into detail about that? What kind of a savings factor? What's? Tell me about what type of things we'll be leasing.

So leasing won't necessarily produce a savings force. What leasing will do is let us pay for the vehicles as we go versus upfronting $6.6 million or whatever the case may be for that period. So instead of using an enterprise-type lease, which is an equity lease, this time we're using a... What do we call it? Just equipment finance lease so that we can better control what the interest and what the fees are inside of that. Sometimes when you go to enterprise somewhere like that on an equity lease, you pay a tremendous number of fees. We've been able to negotiate a good part of that. But in this thing, there's not a lot of fees associated. The interest rate is pretty much what it is. So that's what we'll be using for the 80.

So basically, so we don't have to come up with all the money.

That's right. And at the end of the day, if you can't pay as you go, if you can't pay up front, you pay as you go. That's basically what a lease is for. And this particular one, we're using this away because there's simply no value left in a patrol car once we're done with it. We are going to get our value out of it, I promise you. Same thing with a fire truck. I wouldn't lease a fire truck, by the way, but... patrol cars, lightweight vehicles, that's an opportunity for us to do that because we can pay as we go.

Thank you.

Director Contreras? One more question, and this will be one you may have to go back and research. The increase from 26 to 27 is basically police vehicles and waste, right?

Restate that for me, Doctor.

As you look at your numbers, the reason these have gone up is waste and police, right? The numbers?

Yes, sir.

Okay. So when we get to the point where we can't deliver on picking up garbage, then we go back and do what we need to do, and we get more vehicles so we can get the garbage picked up and that sort of thing. If you look at the other departments that you've analyzed for us, how many are just getting by but really need more to do their task? And you singled out parks before.

Parks.

I'm constantly complaining to the chief in Leland that these people call me and tell me they can't play the golf course because we can't cut it and we don't have any equipment to cut it. So how many departments do we really have that we're shorting them the vehicles or the equipment to adequately do their job to the level that we want to have done for the citizens of our city. And that's something I'd go back and look. I know we're short, but go back and just send me a thing saying, X department, if I had a money tree growing outside that I could get on Broadway. how much more would they need to really adequately get the equipment that people need to take care of it? And send it to the chief or he can send it to the board, whatever you want to do. That's not a question you need to answer today.

Okay, I can do that.

But that's really, as I look at this, we're the squeaky wheel board. We need some police cars, so we get police cars, and we should. We need, you know, ways we can do it. But where else do we need to look for maybe another squeaky wheel that we need to fix? Okay?

Yes, sir.

Thank you.

Director Hines.

So, well, I just want to point this out to everybody. This is a lot of information. So if I flip back to the number, next slide, the annual spend by fund. So the real number for us is really the general fund spend. Because waste, street, fleet, and vehicle storage are all enterprise funds, correct? They generate their own revenues to buy their own equipment through trash rates, state turn back funds on fuel, correct? So really that's our concentration as a board going into budgeting time. I can tell you from a board member, and you and I have had this conversation, One of the things, it's great to have nice new equipment, but if you don't take care of it, it doesn't last long. And I think that, to me, seems to be something that we can't ignore going forward. Do you have any plans to stand up any type of, I guess, standard, I don't know if you call it a standard operating procedure, but requirements by our frontline employees to do pre-trip, post-trip? to maintain their equipment. I know when you go to single use on police vehicles, it gets maintained a lot better because they're not hot seating it. But I know we've had discussions. I think that's got to be something. Us as a board, if you need help from us, making sure that gets done, working with the mayor's office and setting some standards by how we take care of the assets we've got. Because I think at some point in time, that gets ignored and we end up in a very vicious cycle.

So right, we do have in our system that we're loading right now a operators checklist, right? And it's not the technicians checklist, it's the operators checklist. And it was produced so that you can do pre and post, right? And how I used that before is when the drivers didn't do it, the operators didn't do it, their supervisors had to do it, but they actually had to have it every day, right? These guys are working on making sure that their drivers start. We pay a lot of money for that equipment, and it's new. So they're working on multiple ways of making sure that they get those pre and post done. And then there's other departments we just got to roll out. Our biggest concern is for that $500,000 million equipment But it's the same thing for $100,000 police cruiser, right? So we do have the operator's checklist in there, and we're going to stand that up. Thanks.

All right.

Thank you, Director Hinn. Mayor, I'd like to make a motion. We had a zoning vote on August 2nd meeting the applicant. was not present, and I move to expunge our vote and set a new hearing on that item for September 15th, and I'll rely on Tom to get us the exact numbers and figures for the item.

There's a motion. Is there a second? Second. All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

All those opposed say nay. Ayes have it. Madam Clerk, if you would please read the... We have modifications.

We're going to get some motions to... M1, M2, M3 to the consent agenda, and M4 to the group guidance.

Is there a second?

Second.

All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. All those opposed, say nay. Ayes have it. Member Clark?

A resolution authorized a city manager to enter into a one-year advance purchase order contract renewal with Rex White Plumbing LLC in an amount not to exceed $400,000 annually to provide on-call plumbing repair services for city facilities on an as-needed hourly basis at a rate of $75 per hour for a master plumber, $75 per hour for a journeyman plumber. and $45 per hour for an apprentice plumber and for other purposes. A resolution authorizes a city manager to enter into a contract amendment with Professional Health Services for the administration of 2026 firefighter cancer screenings and for other purposes. A resolution authorizes a city manager to enter into a contract with ALLR LLC for the purchase of certain real property located at 10702 Breckenridge Drive, also known as Lot 99, Walnut Valley, in addition to the City of Little Rock, Arkansas, for the purpose of developing affordable housing to authorize the use of community development block grant disaster funds for the purchase and for other purposes. A resolution authorizes the City Manager to enter into a contract with ALLR LLC for the purchase of certain real property located at 1509 Breckenridge Drive, also known as Lot 132, Colony West, first addition to the City of Little Rock, Arkansas, for the purpose of developing affordable housing to authorize the use of community development block grant disaster funds for the purchase and for other purposes. A resolution authorizes the city manager to enter into a contract with ALLR LLC for the purchase of certain real property located at 17 Buttermilk Road, also known as lot 176, Sturbridge subdivision phase three to the city of Little Rock, Arkansas for the purpose of developing affordable housing to authorize the use of community development block grant disaster funds for the purchase and for other purposes. A resolution authorizes a city manager to enter into a contract with ALLRLC for the purchase of certain real property located at 1216 Shackleford Road, also known as Lot 193, Walnut Valley, in addition to the City of Little Rock, Arkansas, for the purpose of developing affordable housing to authorize the use of community development block grant disaster funds for the purchase and for other purposes. A resolution authorizes a city manager to enter into a contract with Redstone Construction Group, LLC, in an amount not to exceed $97,925 for construction services to repave and widen Cadence Park Loop Trail to improve park amenity accessibility for park visitors and to be reimbursed by the Arkansas Department of Transportation for 80% of eligible expenses per the terms of the December 26, 2024 TAP 22S Fund Agreement of understanding for the Little Rock Canis Park Loop job number 061776 and for other purposes. A resolution authorizes the city manager to enter into a contract with Belfort Property Restoration in an amount not to exceed $172,171.51 for restoration and remediation services at Little Rock Fire Station 2 and for other purposes. A resolution authorizes the city manager to execute any necessary grant application and award administration documents with the NEA Foundation for improvement of education to ratify the city's application and acceptance of $275,000 in Southern Regional Alliance for community school program funding for the continuation of community schools model initiative across eight Little Rock School District school campuses and for other purposes. That concludes your consent agenda.

There's a motion, is there a second? All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed say nay. Ayes have it. Madam Clerk, will you please read the grouped items.

An ordinance to declare it impractical and unfeasible to bid to authorize a city manager to enter into a sole source contract with Leeds Online LLC in an amount not to exceed $73,345 plus applicable taxes and fees for a one-year renewal of the Leeds Suite Investigation System, formerly Real-Time Crime Investigation System, a unified law enforcement investigate intelligence record management system utilized by LRPD's Major Crimes Division. to declare an emergency. A resolution authorizes a city manager to enter into a sole source contract with Little Rock Repair Shop for phase two restoration services of the historic over the jumps carousel at the Little Rock Zoo to provide for the payment of funds in an amount not to exceed $150,000 plus applicable taxes and fees to declare an emergency. An ordinance to amend, repeal, and reconcile prior municipal legislation to comply with state statutes as to improvement districts in relation to the Pecan Lake Recreational Improvement District Number 4 to declare an emergency. First reading.

Is there a second? Second. All those in favor please say aye. Aye. All those opposed say nay. Ayes have it. Second reading.

An ordinance to declare it impractical and unfeasible to bid to authorize this city manager to enter into a sole source contract with Leeds Online LLC in an amount not to exceed $73,345 plus applicable taxes and fees for a one-year renewal of Leeds Suite Investigation System, formerly Real-Time Crime Investigation System, a unified law enforcement investigate intelligent record management system utilized by LRPD's Major Crimes Division to declare an emergency. Oh, I have the wrong one.

Sorry. OK.

Ordinance to authorize the city manager to enter into a sole source contract with the Little Rock Repair Shop for Phase 2 restoration services of the historic over-the-jumps carousel at the Little Rock Zoo to provide for the payment of funds in an amount not to exceed $150,000 plus applicable taxes and fees to declare an emergency. An ordinance to amend, repeal, or reconcile prior municipal legislation to comply with state statutes to improvement districts in relation to the Pecan Lake Recreational Improvement District Number 4 to declare an emergency. Second reading.

Second.

This is a motion. Second. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. All those opposed say nay. Ayes have it. Final reading.

An ordinance to declare it impractical and unfeasible to bid to authorize a city manager to enter into a sole source contract with Leeds Online LLC in an amount not to exceed $73,345 plus applicable taxes and fees for a one-year renewal of the Leeds Suite Investigation System, formerly Real-Time Crime Investigation System, a unified law enforcement investigate intelligence record management system utilized by LRPD's Major Crime Division to declare an emergency order. An ordinance to authorize the city manager to enter into a sole source contract with the Little Rock Repair Shop for Phase 2 restoration services of the historic Over the Jumps Carousel at the Little Rock Zoo to provide for the payment of funds in the amount not to exceed $150,000 plus applicable taxes and fees to declare an emergency. An ordinance to amend, repeal, and reconcile prior municipal legislation to comply with state statutes as to improvement districts in relation to the Pecan Lake Recreational Improvement District No. 4 To declare an emergency, third and final reading.

Members of the board, we've had three readings. Are there any questions? Are there any questions? All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. All those opposed, say nay. Ayes have it. We have an emergency clause on items 7 and 8 in M4. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. All those opposed, say nay. Ayes have it. Do we have a motion?

Let the record reflect that the vote on the emergency clauses was unanimous.

Do we have a motion to go to executive session? So moved. There's a motion to second. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. I was supposed to say I said I'm going to read this for executive session. We'll be back. Members of the board, we're back from our executive session where we discussed the appointments to the Historic District Commission, as well as Little Rock Parks and Recreation Commission and Little Rock Port Authority Board. Historic District Commission, Ryan Stevens and Thomas DeGraff III. All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

All those opposed, say nay. Ayes have it. Little Rock Parks and Recreation Commission, Ron Pruitt. All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

All those opposed, say nay. Ayes have it. Little Rock Port Authority Board, Chad Causey. All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

All those opposed, say nay. Ayes have it. Is there a motion to adjourn? So moved. There's a motion to second. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. All those opposed, say nay. Ayes have it. Meeting adjourned.