City Council - Regular Meeting

Oh yeah. 5:30 committee meeting. We are having some technical difficulties. For those of you watching at home, it it will be a little different tonight. We only our top screen is working. The council will be able to view this screen here on the podium. We have uh Dr. Houston Davis from University of Central Arkansas and his staff here tonight to talk about a project uh at the at UCA. President Davis,

thank you very much, Mayor and Council members. Thank you for giving us a few minutes. And we'll do that. Let me certainly reference uh colleagues that are here. uh Kevin Carter, who's our associate uh VP for facilities um at UCA, well known to many of you, and then Amy Whitehead, chief of staff at UCA, I know known as well. Um tonight, and I apologize for the people behind me in the audience, you'll see the top third of these slides, but I know our council members can see the full slide on the monitor that's in front. Um to cut to the chase of what we're here to do conceptually uh to talk about that we want to begin the process of receiving approval for the closure of a segment of Bruce Street from Ferris on the west to Western on the east. If you can wrap your brain around that statement. Um this is going to allow us to design do the final design uh process as well as the construction for the new multi-purpose arena to be built immediately north of Estus Stadium. And I'll show you some visuals of this. Um, this will allow us to close that to vehicular traffic, but still have access for emergency vehicles as well as university vehicles. Um, and will allow that to be much more pedestrian friendly, not just for UCA, but we'll talk about here in a few minutes how it also relates to the Connect Conway initiative and allowing that to be very special as those trails come through. Um, the drivers of this particular project, I'll share with you just a little bit about the arena. Um we see it uh not only as as an opportunity for us uh to certainly um drive the the uh opportunities for the university to provide a facility that has a lot more utility not only to UCA uh but to the ent entire city in the region. This is going to be a campus and community asset. Something that will allow our university to truly do a lot more than we can do with the current facility, the Ferris Center, which is now 54 years old and has some wellocumented challenges and renovations that we would have to do to it. We want to future proof. We want to set this up to be a a special

facility uh for women's basketball, men's basketball, UCA, and then make certain that it's something that's got a lot of flexibility and function for the entire campus. Um this is just big picture uh analysis of the site that's just there north. The next slide is actually the site and the massing of how the building would be laid out just to the north again of Ferris uh stadium. So this would be built basically in that space that's right between where the north end zone is um and where we think about the beginning of the opening of of the Ferris Center, the front doors of the Ferris Center. Now excited about the possibilities that exist. Um just a visual for you again. It is um my apologies again to my colleagues um and friends behind me. Um this as you can see on the map um is that segment of Bruce Street from Ferris Center um out on the west side and through Bruce to Western um there on the east. You can see Donnagy on the far side of this and Augusta and Western Avenue would still have access um as through streets through that part of our neighborhood, the university and the hospital district. Um during the initial feasibility phase um of this particular project, the initial traffic study um showed no adverse effects on traffic operations. Um if we uh go into it with that closure assumed and there's sign sufficient reserve capacity at surrounding intersections to accommodate traffic volumes projected to be diverted because of that move. I mentioned uh the connectway project earlier. We also were excited about this is going to provide us the opportunity if you and the way this this rendering is. Let me zoom in a little bit. The segment of Bruce Street is considered a secondary um access point on the connectway project. That red line is really that segment um of that uh east west uh the way that the path will come through the campus. this can allow us to really design that pathway and what you're trying to

achieve through that project into the north part of the north third of campus. We really see that um as a great um outcome of this. The reason being this particular view, this is looking if you were at Buffalo Alumni Hall looking back to the west down Bruce Street, we really are going to be creating almost a park-like plaza area um that will be on the north side um of the arena. It will in many ways be a park on that connect Conway artery. Uh very excited again. Um I like to think of our campus as being a little like Conway Central Park. Uh we see it all the time. People come and congregate. Families come through there. We know that we're a hub and spoke for a lot of major pedestrian and and and just fun family activities. This is only going to put that. Um this again a rendering of going into the lobby area off of that grand entrance uh for the new arena. a little bit of what that would look like um in the bowl um for the the the court. And then looking out, you can see on the far side of that view that those are the boxes that overlook the football stadium in the north end zone. Um a little bit of a building section cutout of what that looks like. again making certain that this building is a Swiss Army knife that allows us to do a lot of different functions and the stage for those functions because this is not just about playing basketball in this arena and practice and and athletic operations. Um commencements will be held here, graduation uh for for high schools will be held here, concerts um uh certainly we know their chamber events, city events, the duck derby, an event that Conway Regional Health System puts on every year. Um and then big uh events that we have like laurels and stripes coming up here in just a few weeks. We'd love to see you guys attend that and state high school competitions that on the regular are needing facilities like this and some sense about what a setup uh for events like that. Dinners um what it would look like for commencement um and then a sense of what that would look like from those

club views overlooking the court and then also looking out into the football stadium. um very excited about the fact that the way we're designing this facility, it gives us a tremendous amount of utility. Um this gives you some sense from down on the football field level uh from the home sideline. Again, there's going to be a football operations as well as the locker room facilities that will be on that knuckle um as it comes around the northwest corner of the project. A little bit of a view of what that would look like from the home stands. Um and then looking from the visitors um side and the current boxes that are on top of um Bear Hall uh at what that would look like from that particular direction. Uh upshot to all that is just so you'll kind of have this for fun facts be 116,000 square feet um of facility. Uh the the it's being designed to be able to sit 2450 for regular basketball seats and then another 200 premium seating. So uh just short of 2,700 seats. And then we've got those sky boxes as well. For commencement, it will be a 30,000 seat facility. And then for concerts, we'll be able to accommodate up to 3,600. And we anticipate for events like duck derby and chamber events and the like, that is a 1,200 seat accommodation with tables because of the collapsed bleachers that we'll put and looking at uh $75.5 million total in the project. We're still as we completed that feasibility study now we're into the process of really getting into the design as well as working on um the uh financials around the project as well as the fundraising around the project and that falls to me and our team to get that done. But we're to the point um where with the feasibility study being done in December um when we decide to move forward um this is a rough timeline schematic design 3 to four months design development 3 to four months and then we'll get into construction documents. Uh but we're looking at probably 34 to 41 months total from whenever we push the go button uh being able to get the

facility completed. Um before you ask the question, the more than likely uh we would be looking at January of 2027 um would be the date that we would know that we would need to actually have Bruce Street closed off. Um because that's roughly our estimated time for when we would need to begin to do the utilities work um and move forward with the project. So with that, um, I know that your time is very precious and I know you've got your meeting, but I thought you might like to see the context of what we're talking about doing, but ultimately this is that segment of Bruce from Ferris up through Western. Uh, and again, uh, for any of you that have come to tailgates, come to graduations, come to anything else, it's the part of Bruce that we close off regularly right now. Uh, and we want to leave Western and Augusta going north south that those streets would still remain open. that be glad to entertain any questions and so thankful that Kevin and Amy are here in case I need to phone my friends

and council Jacob and uh Kurt were involved in that initial meeting and they they had no problems with the closing of Bruce Street. Nor do I. I think it all looks great. We're really excited about it. It will be a transformational project for campus period but that part of campus for sure and we know it's going to be a great asset for the community. So I just got one question. How how long are we going to wait before we come to this a time a date that we need to have this closed by before?

I would assume that I'm not when construction started. But yeah, that's u what we're hoping to do. If I remember correctly, the timeline we need to there's a procedural vote that you have to take to be able to post the the formal hearing of this item. I think that would be February the 24th if I remember correctly from talking earlier. And we would hope to come back at your March 10th meeting for approval of that because um that Councilman Jump that allows um us to go ahead and move forward with the design work knowing that Bruce Street being closed can be a part of that. we wouldn't actually have to close off the street. Um that'd be until January. It' be about seven to eight months after that particular.

I just didn't want us to ride by us not knowing what date we needed to have it done by. That's I'm just trying to figure out. We're we're on we're on a great timeline right now. Yeah. If we if we hit that March 10th or anytime around that, that's perfectly fine for our particular purposes.

I have a next steps. I'll get I'll get the council a copy of it. Uh, I do want to coun I'd like for you to think about this. I met with uh President Davis and and his folks. I also visited Mike Winter about the possibility of partnering with UCA and actually having a fire station on campus there in that facility. Uh the the main question that has to be answered would be from an ISO standpoint. You get so many points for road miles on fire station distance between one another and the responding engines and trucks in those areas. So my first thought would be to station 4 was built in 1977. Mark, is that right? Is possibly, of course, it' be this council's decision closing station 4 and moving those personnel, those apparatus to the uh to the new new facility, which they do have a number of responses daily uh at the University of Central Arkansas. Most of them are medical, but still quite a few responses, and it would put them uh it would leave them in their district they're in now. Again, I've asked the fire chief to address that and he will come back and address that with you guys at a further date if you're interested in it.

That's something that would be only positive for UCA as well. So, another great partnership of the community if that comes about. Which one is for Mayor Salem Road? Salem. Okay. Thank you, President Davis. That's the route that I drive to work every day on. But for something like this, I think I can find a new route. [laughter] Council, any questions for Dr. D? Probably kept me from running over somebody.

Well, it's I tell you, it's it's getting it's getting harder and harder at certain hours of the day to drive through, and that's a good problem. the the the students are very courteous though. I mean, they go to their crosswalks and they and they do what they're supposed to do. It's the drivers sometimes who are not paying the attention that they need to. We we all coexist. It's great. Appreciate it. Thank you, President Davis. Excellent. Thank you. Thanks, Houston. Council will bring this back to you at the next council meeting in two weeks. We will adjourn until we got about 13 minutes.

Would you bow? God the Almighty. We'll lift up our meeting of the United States of America and to the republic stands nation indivisible and justice for all. Now call this meeting to order. Missurd, would you call the role, please?

Mr. Hawkins here. Mr. Grime, here. Mr. Spurs here. Miss Mill here. Mr. Lead Better here. Mr. Hawks here. Mr. Jones here. Missby here. You should have received copies of the minutes from the January 13th, 2026 council meeting. Any corrections, changes, or comments? Make a motion for approval as submitted. Second. Have a motion and a second to approve the minutes as submitted. Any further discussion? All in favor say I. I.

Any oppose? Passes eight to zero. I'd like to recognize our street department tonight. Uh we we uh C do DOT did an amazing job and uh I want you guys to know that it didn't go unnoticed. Our sanitation department was extremely busy after they reopened up and uh they were able to get everybody caught up fairly quickly. Physical plant, they were out clearing sidewalks and streets in our downtown business and parks hosted the winter warming center for 16 days and they served they served over 180 people. And I'd like to specifically thank the Conway ministry center and the Conway community. Uh, you know, Conway, the people of Conway always show up when you ask and when the call went out that we needed snacks and food and blankets, things like that, the people of Conway showed up. So, not only do we have uh tremendous employees in those departments, but we have a tremendous community. So, thank you all.

Yes.

Before we uh move to the agenda, got something I'd like to do. Jim Baker, I know you're out there. Uh, we Mark Led Better has been uh working some time and and getting something to honor you, Jim, for how good you were to Conway. I know that you paved Hogan. I know that you built the cut through there uh at at Highway 25. But I know that you built the roundabout there at Salem and College and your contributions to Conway have not gone unnoticed, but uh I think you know here everyone here holds you in high regard, but I don't know that anybody holds you any higher regard than Mark Led better. And so, uh, we're gonna we're going to pass a resolution or asked to pass a resolution tonight renaming the, uh, dairy, it's not the dairy barn, it's the where they show the cattle out at the Expo Center after after you. And Mark is going to read something. And I know that your friend Bill Lewis is here. Uh, Bill Lewis, the Lewis name and the Jim Baker name just kind of run together. Bill, the judge will tell you that he's an old bullshipper. I said that right, didn't I? He just

he's an old bull shipper. I did. I did. But uh but he worked with Tommy and he worked with Bill and he worked with Major. And Bill, while you're here, man, thank you to you and your family for the tremendous contribution you guys have made. Conway. Part of a huge part of our ongoing success is is the investment of of the Lewis family. But Judge Baker, come on up. Mr. Lead Better is going to meet you up there halfway.

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Uh few weeks back I asked Judge Baker to kind of jot me down some notes about his history with 4. I'm gonna read these notes to you real quick. Beth man 1952 he joined for These county first public office was 1956 elected song leader for the club. [laughter] 1960 Bethl club merged into the Glenwood School 4 and he was elected president and carried the role to 1964 his senior year of high school. In three he was elected southwest district president vice president of Arkansas 4 for two years. Same year he was show citizenship course him better what better about what was being a citizen of the United great times in his life. those days being involved in the 4H helped him Southern State College, study agriculture and business. Fall of 64, he attended four years, walk on the football, walked on the football team, got a full scholarship at semester, captain of the team, a mule, [laughter] but he's also a bear. Took me 30 years to learn.

He moved to Conway in July of 68 to work for Central Arkansas Production Credit Association. Lloyd Westbrook asked him to help the 4H program for Faulner County. There was three in the county. Was a county agent. 196, sorry, 1986, Faulner County started the Faulner County 4H foundation to raise funds for became one of the leading fundraising. I was selected charter board member and vice president still today a member of that board and we have largest county in Arkansas served better than 500 kids in Faulner County. 1994 he went to Washington DC to be hacker yard by President Bill Clinton visited the 4 center often and and conducted visit office often when they were always told them his story and what GISA about marketplace 2002 he was 4 years seek has helped has helped me set a road map for my life. It really has helped me open doors across this state and the country. help me be better communicies by coming. Monica and Jason were involved heavily

in Faulner County 4 and both of them. I will say this too that not familiar with livestock every baker some years ago other folks came up way that works at the end of the end of the show kids will bring up there and they on these cattle Whatever that brings, those kids get the money. They get to keep their animal. I would say that over that thousands of dollars raised for kids here in county. Thank you. Yes, sir. He comes up with a good one every once in a while. [laughter] Let's see. building all engineered and figure out where they're going to put it

in Pike County. Pike count in Pike County. Pike County Fairground is named after Bob. Is that right? That's my dad. Hello, baby. I'm so appreciative. This is a race. Make sure you get my belly in.

This is your official.

Congratulations. Next up, we have a resolution naming the the pavilion located at Conway Expo and Event Center after former Faulner County Judge Jim Baker and for other purposes. Whereas Jim Baker served as Faulner County Judge from 2014 through 2022 and during his tenure worked closely and collaborative collaboratively stuffing for me with the city of Conway on numerous projects of mutual benefit. Whereas Judge Baker was instrumental in the development of the Conway Expo and Event Center and in the relocation of the county fair to its current site, providing leadership, coordination, and long-term vision that helped bring the project to fruition. And whereas Jud Judge Baker has dedicated his life to public service, agriculture, and youth development, including decades of leadership was in the Arkansas agriculture, service on the Arkansas uh Arkansas Livestock and Poultry Commission, appointment by President Bill Clinton to the US Department of Agriculture, and induction in the Arkansas Agriculture Hall of Fame. Whereas the Conway Expo and Event Center includes a pavilion structure that serves the public, agricultural community and fair related activities, making it appropriate and meaningful facility to honor Judge Baker's lasting contributions to the city of Conway, Faulner County, and state of Arkansas. And whereas the city council of the city of Conway desires to formally recognize Judge Baker's service, leadership, and legacy by naming this pavilion as his honor. Therefore, be it resolved by the city council of the city of Conway, Arkansas, that the mayor and council do hereby honor former Faulner County Judge Jim Baker for his significant contributions uh to the city of Conway and the Conway Expo and Event Center. And council, with that, I'll take a motion to adopt this resolution.

So moved. We have a motion, a second to adopt this resolution. Any further discussion? Mr. Led, you got anything else you want to say? Judge, you got anything you want to say? [laughter] We really appreciate I appreciate your friendship, Jim. And I don't know if you've ever been on a trip with Jim, but old Ibbits had to hide all the candy cane candy because Jim, he likes that candy cane stuff. He he'd get him a big pocket full. Miss her, take the vote, please. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Passes eight to zero. Thank you.

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Okay, first up on the agenda is we have a public hearing to discuss the adoption of e- scooters and e- scooter shared programs for the city of Conway. Now declare this public meeting open and I think Mr. Rice, Troy Rice has a short presentation. Evening council. This mic around here. Good evening, council.

Uh, you were shown um this information, I believe, in the January 13th city council meeting and looked at it briefly. And since that time, we've kind of taken a deeper dive into uh this particular area and and uh so what we have for you tonight is just kind of a a deeper look at some of this and going to want some feedback and some ideas from you. And I know you've got some questions about this. Uh, as we mentioned to uh the folks that are in the room, the display at the front of the house is not working properly. Uh, if you want to go to the live feed of the meeting tonight, you should be able to see everything that uh is on the screen and council, you should be able to see everything uh right here. So, anyone in the audience that wants to go to the live feed, you'll be able to to take a look at this as well. So, what we're talking about is motorized escooters and scooter share program. As I mentioned, since the meeting on January the 13th, uh we had a committee that wanted to take a look at um the municipal code, kind of compare it to other municipalities that are already in a scooter share program. Um look at their um requirements, that type of thing, and and just uh try to formulate as best we can um a good plan going forward. committee members, uh, Felicia Rogers, myself, uh, and Tucker as director of planning, Kurt Jones with engineering, Jacob Reynolds, streets, and Dakota Rogers, who's with our Conway Fire Department, joined us, but more so he, um, has been employed uh, in the past by one of the major scooter providers in metropolitan cities. So, his insight with us was very, very helpful to kind of get the day in and day out look at what what this uh, looks like for a city. Uh as um printed uh the purpose of this chapter is to promote safe, orderly and accessible use of electric scooters, to preserve pedestrian movement in the public rideway, and to establish permitting and operational regulations for scooter

share systems operating within the city. The state has passed and you see it there, the electric motorized scooter act, but within that they do give cities leeway in regard to uh establishing their own regulations. So, some of the regulations that we have have formulated into ours are a part of what the state requires, that type of thing. But then there are some others that due to the uh given us some some leeway as to uh what we're able to do and and I've I've given you that that quotation from the motorized scooter act um right there. So, step one in this and um we'll talk a little bit about some questions that you might have as we go through, but step one in this is defining actually what a scooter is. Um because one of the first questions we had as we looked at pictures of of these things is what's a scooter, what's a bicycle, uh that type of thing. And I know the city has some experience in the past with the bicycle program that that we had. uh some of the experiences with that were good, some of them were not so good. But so we wanted to clarify for sure what a scooter is. And you see the images are actually from a major company called VO that does supply uh cities. And the actual definition is it is a device weighing no more than 100 pounds having two or three wheels, handlebars, and a standing deck powered in whole or in part by an electric motor and is intended for use by a single rider. So based on that definition, the two scooters that are list shown there for you qualify as a scooter. There are some companies that deal only in the standup type, some that deal in both, that type of thing. But as far as a definition of what a scooter is, both of these meet that particular definition. So any questions so far?

So, let's talk about rider requirements. When we talk about riders of scooters, we are referring only to those riders who are riding scooters provided by a scooter share program. This does not apply to little Johnny who's gotten a scooter for Christmas and he's out riding it in the neighborhood or even on the street or on a trail or whatever. those scooters will will find applicable laws from the traffic and all that for them. But when we refer to rider requirements, we're only we're only talking about those that are riding scooters provided by a scooter share program. So riders are required to be 16 years or older. Strongly recommended that all riders, regardless of age, uh be wearing helmets. Riders must comply with all traffic laws applicable to bicycle users and operation on any private property without permission from the owner is prohibited. So that's the general. Once a provider comes into town, they may have more strict requirements than that, but we tried I think it was Mr. Grimes in our first uh meeting said, "Hey, let's not try to overregulate this. We're only trying to regulate what we feel like we can enforce." And so that's why that's why we we've landed here. So rider requirements, where can they ride? They can ride on designated bicycle lanes. They can ride on streets that are posted uh 35 miles an hour or less. They can use multi-use pedestrian bicycle facilities. So yes, that does apply to Kinley Trail. They will be permitted on Kinley Trail because it is a multi-use uh facility. They can also ride on sidewalks, any sidewalk measuring 8 feet or greater in width. However, they are prohibited from riding on any sidewalk that abuts a building. So, that first and foremost, we'll talk a little bit more about it in a minute, but first and foremost, that would pretty much declare them unavailable to ride on sidewalks in the

downtown area because those sidewalks all but a building. They can ride in the street there, but not on the sidewalk. Speed limitations. Any streets a multi-use path 15 miles an hour. Sidewalks 10 miles an hour. We'll talk a little bit more about that and and how we can govern that in a few minutes. The scooters themselves must be equipped with a break and a bell. And then for night operation, they must have uh lights as well. Far as parking and storage, scooters will shall be parked upright. They shall not obstruct pedestrians, block ADA required ramps, interfere with building entrances or driveways, be parked on city streets, parked on private property without permission, parked within 5 ft of a crosswalk or a curb ramp, and on multi-use trails, scooters may only be parked at trail heads. So unlike the bicycle provider where most of those um rides are kind of a roundtrip ride or riding from one docking station to another docking station. It's our understanding that most of these trips on these scooters are going to be they're going to they're going to rent time on that and so they're going to ride to a particular location. Their ride is going to be over. They're going to park that scooter there. somebody else at some point can come go into the system, get that scooter, ride it to another location. We know that they're probably going to be left in some places. That's just the nature of of this business, but they will not find a necessary docking station throughout the city of Conway where they can leave it and it be docked overnight or whatever the case may be. So, that's why you see a little bit of the parking and storage arranged the way that it is. Yes, ma'am.

One one quick question. So, I just want to make sure I'm understanding about the parking part. So, over in Gatlin Park where the McKinley Trail starts, right there off Tyler, if somebody's on a scooter, they're whipping down around there and stop at the you know, they've got the little ramp. You you know, for mountain biking, you know, not really mountain biking. So, if they pull off and park next to that, that's not acceptable. they would have to go to a trail head or a parking lot to leave it. And then there will be designate we will have some designating parking areas, but it will be impossible for us to designate every space available as as parking.

I just want to make sure I'm understanding the intent is you just don't want them laying around everywhere. That That's correct. and we will and we will lean on the operator then they will have a requirement to pick those scooters up within a specified amount of time or they will be fined for that. So, so more than likely on the responsibility of the rider it will not be on more so on their responsibility but more so on the provider to make sure and to educate their riders as to where they're to be a parked. Yes, ma'am. Other questions so far? Did I hear you say there will not be designated charging ports, corrals, etc., etc.

Right. It's our understanding that the companies themselves will pick them up and take them to their own charging facility, take the batteries, charge them. They will actually have mo multiple batteries that they can put in and out and and we talked a little bit about the charging stations for that purpose. But as far as a docking station where it pulls in, it gets plugged in or whatever throughout the city, no, that will not be the case. Okay. So, who in the city will be I may be jumping ahead here. Jumping ahead just a little bit. I probably am jumping. That's okay. No, no, I can wait. That's okay. I know you've got lots of questions. I know. I'm happy to wait. Go ahead.

Yeah. Okay. Any other questions about writer responsibilities? where they can be ridden, parking, any of any of those questions that we need to kind of talk through. Sure. This may also be jumping ahead, but it says parking, so it feels relevant. So, if there aren't going to be hubs or, you know, corral for these, does this mean that the operator can just choose to spread them out wherever they'd like? Sorry, spread them out wherever they'd like in town,

they would they would be able to deploy them. Um, that's a that's a good question. As far as the initial deployment, I don't know that we've addressed that, but we may need to kind of go back and think through that because I'm not I'm not exactly sure how the the company itself works from that standpoint from their initial deployment. But they will have they will have a location a specific location business location and um that they will operate out of. So whether or not that is a deployment center or or once you go online where you can rent, you know, where you can actually rent it from, um, we'll we'll need to we'll need to address that. Has a contract been signed? No. These people to come in town yet?

No, actually, and I know there's kind of been word of a particular provider that's wanting to come in. That provider is not an actual scooter share provider. What they are is they are a self-contained company that goes and they will set up at a particular location and they will do things such as birthday parties, scavenger hunts, things along those lines. And so those those scooters would then be self-contained. They will ride out, they will come back, they will gather them up, trailer them away or or whatever. So they are not a scooter share program. I think we've had some interest from some scooter share programs in the past, but we do not have a current vendor who is asking about our regulations at this point.

So, at this point in time, what we're doing is preemptive. Yes, sir. Thank you. Yes, sir. So, that company would have to follow these same rules.

That company would not f have to follow the scooter share rules because of them being a self-contained. I mean, they basically could could start a business today because there'd be no permit required for that particular business just like any other birthday party provider, whether it's inflatables or or whatever the case may be. Now, obviously, the scooters themselves in writing, they would be applicable laws that that pertain to that. And we would hope that they would educate their riders that they would have to be a certain age and all that, but as far as a scooter share program, they do not meet this this requirement. other questions before we move on.

Before we go, sorry.

Oh, okay. So, let's talk about uh the actual scooter share permit and the the providers. We'll move to the area of the providers now. So, if you're going to be a scooter share provider in the city of Conway, uh you must obtain a permit that will be valid for 12 months. It will not authorize operation on any private property, college, university, unless prior approval is obtained by the owner of the said property. So, it will be a permitted business um for 12 months. We talk about enforcement and what we're able to do uh just a little bit later. As an operator, here are your requirements. You must provide a business location, street address for correspondence, compliance, and enforcement purposes. And the address must be a local address. We're not going to let them necessarily operate out of Little Rock in a satellite type thing here. They'll provide a local address. They must provide a designated contact person. They must maintain liability insurance. And the amounts that you see here, a million dollars per occurrence, $2 million aggregate, the name of the city of Conway as an additional insured. They must make sure their scooters are safe, functional, and compliant with manufacturer specifications. They must remove damaged or improperly parked scooters within two hours of notification. So that is going to be a requirement and we are going to track that their time in uh response. They must provide monthly data reports including trip counts, response time to complaints and safety incidents. They're going to have to provide safety and parking instructions on each scooter and through any associated mobile application. The scooters must clearly display the operator's emblem, customer support information, a unique ID visible from 5t away. They're going to have to clearly and understandably communicate rates to customers before use. Here's a big one. They're going to need

to educate users via the website or app about compliance with all general operation, parking, safety rules. Each unit must have an onboard GPS or equivalent system for location tracking, recovery, data collection, speed control, and incident investigation. They must have the ability to implement no ride zones, slow ride zones, and to invoice in to enforce city designated no parking zones. Let me stop right here and just say we think this is a big part of what they should be able to do. In other words, if we have a designated area in the city and we say downtown Conway is a slow ride zone, they should be able to make those scooters only go 10 miles an hour or whatever the mile per hour we we set for them. All of that should be GPS oriented. They should be able if we have a no ride zone, they should be able to get us to a point where if you're riding and you come to a no- ride zone, that scooter shuts down right there. That is and we and it's our understanding that most of the national providers this is standard for them that they that they do provide this.

I have a question before we get too far on the permits. Do you have an estimated cost what that annual permits going to Yeah, we'll get to that in just a second. Sure will. Absolutely.

Okay. Uh must have processes in place for maintenance and safety. Respond to certain categories of public complaints obstructions within a oneh hour time frame. must have a battery recycling disposable program that is compliant with federal hazardous waste regulations. And any battery charging facilities must comply with the Arkansas Fire Prevention Code and be approved by Conway Fire Department fire marshal based on our conversation with uh Dakota from the fire department. uh this was one of the areas that he was heavily involved in and he said at times they would have hundreds of lithium batteries and he said literally the company that he was working with at that particular time just basically had some warehouse space that they were all hooked up in and he said it was not very safe. So we have we have indicated here hey if we're going to be talking about that much hazardous waste hazardous batteries we're going to make sure that it that it that particular area gets approved. Okay. So, back again to the requirements of the operator. Other questions that you have here? Well, that's a lot to kind of run through and I know you have the handout in front of you that you can refer to. Any other questions there? Okay. So fees for the provider annual permit fee for the scooter share operations shall be established by resolution of the city council rate of a non-refundable fee of $150 plus $20 per shared scooter. And that is an annual renewal. $150 plus $20 per sca uh per shared scooter. Okay. Enforcement and penalties. Mayor or designate may impose any of the following enforcement actions at any

time. Issuance of written notice of or administrative citation, reduction of permitted fleet size, temporary suspension of operations, or the relocation of the permit. And again, they have some specific tasks that they have to follow in regard to notifications, picking up scooters that are lying around, those types of things. We're going to monitor that. They're going to be required to give us monthly data back as far as the number of trips, all of those things. And if we find that there's some violations, here's the enforcement and penalties that can go forward. Administrative administrative penalties may include $50 per improper improperly parked scooter, $100 per unsafe operation or verified service failure, up to $500 per day for unpermitted deployment, and we may impound any unpermitted or hazardous scooters.

So, do you know who within the city is going to issue those? Yes, we'll talk about that in just a second. [laughter] Okay. Sure will. That's okay. Hey, I like your thinking. I didn't see that here. So, for sure. Okay. So, questions about enforcement and penalties. Anything there? You envision these penalties being levied against the company or the uh or the citizen who is breaking the rules.

It would be against the provider. Yes, it would be against the provider. And again, we think more onus would be on them then to make sure their riders are educated as to where they can be parked, you know, that that type of thing. So, yes, it will be on the on the provider themselves. Okay. How are we going to administrate administer this? Any application and permitting will come through the office of business services coordinator, which is my office. They will be required to provide all the information and the and the things that are listed. When it comes to evaluation, enforcement and penalties, it'll be mayor or his designate, chief of staff, business services coordinator. Collectively, we'll look at those enforcement um uh penalties and and the information that we have and make those decisions there. And then as far as our contact person with the city parking enforcement officer, Marco, who's currently serving there, he will be the person that gains those calls. So if a call comes in from a business owner and says, "Hey, there's been a scooter parked out here for the last two weeks." That call will be funneled to Marcus who would then have the contact to the company itself. He will make the contact with the company and say, "We've got this issue." and then the clock starts ticking and they should respond within an hour and they should have the the scooter picked up within two hours or again we start living penalties on them for that

and after normal business hours. Yes. So it's 8:00 at night and we'll try to maintain that as best we can. Yes. A lot for one person. That's where I'm headed as well. So and is isn't this person mostly downtown right now? Yes. And are we expecting them to have to go to where these issues show up or literally just play traffic cop on the phone and call the company?

I think in general most of the the complaints will probably be phone driven, but that's not to say we we may not choose for him to go where where yeah, if need be, he he might need to make a trip out to verify something that needs to be verified or or something along those lines. And this may just be a starting point for us as far as a contact person and see how that works out for that office. But Sure. But but we feel like we need someone that that everyone in the city knows that that call goes to that person at this point.

Would there be a way for the company to have an online report form that a citizen could just say, "Hey, y'all left this here. Come pick it up." And that would trigger the time and will citizen be able to contact the company directly. There should be there will be information on the scooter itself. There will be information company information, phone number and that type. I'm just thinking it it could potentially be really overwhelming for one person. And so if I here I am. I'm on my bike and I'm out there on the Kinley trail and I see three scooters [laughter] laying on the side. You you know

I can assure you you're probably going to see them. Yeah. It's just gonna happen. So if there was just an easy online form that the company has but then they have to report that to you. Okay. I think that might be a additional way and that would kind of cover some of the after hours stuff too. Okay. Because the timeline would start when that got submitted. Correct. Correct. Okay. Other questions, thoughts, snide remarks? Oh, I've got some. [laughter] Let's not go there. Anything else? Yes. Well, Mr. Grime,

I think you said this, but I want to clarify. You said currently the only entity you've heard from wanting to do something like this is the birthday party example where they do that. It wouldn't be. And so none of this applies to them. That's correct. Okay. We agree with that, Felicia. Is that correct? That's where we arrived. It does not apply to them at all. Got it. So, do we need to do anything as a city for privately owned scooters and companies like the one you described?

No. I mean, my point was going to be I know this is standard stuff, but seems like a lot of rules, but any company that comes in, they know what they're doing, and if they do it elsewhere, they I'm sure they're used to it. But um anyway, these um everything that we have here falls really closely in line to Little Rock as well as Fagatville. Those were two that we kind of that we kind of Perfect uh anchored this to as well. Thank you.

And and then like I said, I can't say enough about Dakota and his insight that he gave us on the just the daily operations and and he's the one that basically said, get used to it. You're going to see them laying around. You're going to see them in places, you know. Um but at this point um whether they come or not, we really don't feel like we can keep them from coming. We're just hoping to provide some kind of guard rails and some kind of um regulations that we feel like we can at least to some degree enforce and do the best job that we can in in in doing. I would agree 100%. Thank you.

And Troy, just for our friends watching at home, you said something. You said we don't really feel like we can pre prevent them from coming. My understanding is we know that we cannot, right? The state has told us that that's correct. You cannot forbid these. That's correct. And so from what I heard you say, we're not entertaining an agreement with a particular company at this point. We're laying the groundwork for when someone approaches and says, "Hey, we want to do this here." We say, "Great. Here are the rules." That's right. Okay. That's exactly right. Yes. Okay. I'm done. Thank you, Troy. Thank you. Thank you.

Okay. Would anyone else like to speak for or against or have any comments concerning the ebikes?

I have two comments. Um, so one thing we can do if we want to be proactive about them docking them somewhere, we can always add that we can add docking stations in our parks. And so just a common place like we will do it at the trail heads. Maybe we can add them in the parks again to be proactive about where we would like for you to park the like we could do Simon Park downtown. We could do Rogers Plaza again giving them a location to where they can go. So maybe that will help with them being scattered all over. And so we could do that. And then we can also look at I know we can look at a time. So, we can say these can only operate from, you know, 6:00 a.m. to 700 p.m. and we can put a time on it so that we can maybe kind of um control them that way, too.

So, we could we could look at that, too. But, Felicia, if we did a docking station, it would be different than what it looked like when the bike share program was here some time ago because we had one provider and that was where theirs could be stored to charge, etc. This would essentially just be a designated parking space again where anybody who was operating could drop a scooter there just so that again if there's a docking station in downtown maybe they're more likely to say let me put it in Simon Park instead of just leaving it on the side. This is our this is our cart corral at the grocery store and we hope that people have the moral fiber to return their cart pulling and put a quarter in and get another quarter out when you need.

Would anyone else like to speak for or against? Yes, ma'am. Could you please state your name and address for the record? Megan Willis. Um, I'm actually the company that is wanting to come in for the scooters, for the rentals, for like birthday parties and people to come out and rent them. Um, we are not a scooter share program. We are just a small business privately owned. Um, these scooters are going to be rented from us at a certain time, day. Um, we both work um our own schedules for work purposes ourselves. Um, but this we're wanting to do this for the city, for kids, families, things people have. Sorry, I'm nervous talking in front of people. [laughter]

Sorry. But, um, we're wanting to bring something for people to have in Conway to do because there's not, this is not here yet. And we know we're not a big program for people to leave these everywhere, but we are just a little privately small business that we want to just have something for people to have to do. Um, we do rent them out for birthday parties, things like that. These are not going to be left around town. These are something you rent from us. You have a time limit. You bring them back to us. So, this is not something that is going to be left around town. Ours isn't anyway. Um, we do have we know there are rules to follow for these um as long as they're being rented out. and we do plan on following those rules. We go by all of that. So, we just wanted to kind of put our name out there and just let you guys know that we are not the scooter share program, but we are the small one that we are just kind of wanting to give people a chance to have around town. So,

what are some of the locations that you would have a birthday party like this? I'm just curious. Um just if people wanted to rent them for their birthday parties like we can deliver them, you know, for them to run around town house or if they had them like at a park and they were allowed to have them at a park or just wherever they're available to be used. So small privately owned businesses are the backbone of America. I like them. Yeah. Just a clarifying understanding question for my part. What we're talking about here would not apply to her company. So these are separate. Got it. Yeah. Thank you so much. Thank you. Anyone else like to speak for or against?

Now declare this public hearing closed. Troy, thank you and to your group that worked on this. A good presentation. All right. Up next is the community development committee or community development, I'm sorry. Mr. Hawkins, it's all you, sir. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And we have already done uh Judge Jim Baker. Uh, so that resolution number was what? 04. 04. Thank you. R 2604. And we'll skip to the next item on the agenda, which is consideration to approve waving the readings for ordinances on tonight's agenda. And I'll take a motion for that. So moved. Second. I

have a motion, a second to approve the waving of three readings of of the five ordinance on the February 10th, 2026 council agenda. Any further discussion? Missurd. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Passes eight to zero. Mr. Hawkins. Next item, Mr. Mayor's consideration to remove and dispose of equipment for the Conway Transportation Department. Tell us something good. Good evening. Uh, so this is this is equipment that has lived its life. Oh, something bad. [laughter]

Yeah, that's the best way to put it. It it doesn't have any use anymore. Most of it doesn't run. There are a few items like the dump truck that that does still run but not worth a lot. Yeah, it does dump but but don't go far in it. U so we're just asking that you we remove those from our asset list so we can sell them on gov deals. I move that we uh grant this request. Second. Have a motion and a second to approve this request to dispose of equipment for Conway Transportation Department. Any further discussion? Missurd. All in favor say I. I. All oppose.

Passes eight to zero. Mr. Hawkins. Next item, Mr. Mayor, is an ordinance appropriating funds for additional 2026 paving projects for the Conway Transportation Department. Round two. Yeah. So, this is a couple years ago, 18 months or 24 months, somewhere in there, we approved a street cut permit with a fee associated with it. And so this is the collection of that so far and we're just asking that we remove it from or move it from a revenue account to an expenditure account to be able to pave with it. Questions? Make a motion to approve. Second.

I have a motion a second to approve this ordinance appropriating funds for additional 2026 paving projects for Conway Transportation. And Jacob, I've really hated not being able to talk to you and Kurt this week. I mean, it was just like my [laughter] Daily thing gets visit you guys. I kind of miss y'all. Ordinance number Missurd is 02604. Thank you Missurd. Mr. Spurgers. Hi. Mr. Hawkins. Yes. Miss me? I. Mr. Jones. Yes. Mr. Hawks. Yes. Missy. Yes. Mr. Lead Better. Yes. Mr. Grimes. That passes 8 to zero. Mr. Hawkins.

Next item, Mr. Mayor is a resolution to approve the bid agreement for the earthwork project for the Conway transportation department. Jacob,

so this one for 40, 50 years, however long that we've had a street department, we've had that property behind the community center to to get our shell, build dirt, whatnot. Well, two things. It's it's expired. It's dug out and we don't have access to it anymore. So, what this is is an agreement with a couple contractors to provide those materials to us as as needed for these would be like for our city job or we do in-house jobs. Um, it wouldn't be for our big contract jobs or anything, just for our in-house work. Uh, and it's just to have a couple options. If the low bid is is busy and can't get to it, it gives us a second option to get those materials in hauling.

Questions? Jacob, I've got one. Do we have some shale availability over near the uh uh new facility, the new Conway Community Center? That's where this that's where we've got it forever. I don't I don't know of any most of that. You know, I think Snap-on owns the southern portion of it and the northern portion of it it's dug out. We don't own any more then over there. Thank you. Motion for the adoption of the resolution. Second. Have a motion, a second to approve this resolution. Any further discussion? Resolution 05. Five. Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. Yes, sir. Missurd. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed?

That passes eight to zero. Mr. Hawkins. Next item, Mr. Mayor's an ordinance appropriating grant funds for the Conway connect project for reimbursement for the Conway transportation department. Jacob. So this is for the engineering services from 25 u the design so far and this is u reimbursement that we've received from the federal highways US department of transportation and we're just asking to to move it from the grants account to their uh engineering services account which will close out 2025.

Questions? It's accounting for the most part. Make a motion for the adoption of the ordinance 02605. Second. Have a motion and seconds to adopt this ordinance appropriating grant funds for comic connect project for reimbursement of the transportation department. Any further discussion? Missurd. Mr. Grimes. Hi. Mr. Jones. Yes. Miss Mill. Hi. Miss Lead Better. Mr. Lead Better. Mr. Spurgers. Hi. Mr. Hawks. Yes. Miss Zby. Yes. Mr. Hawkins. Yes.

That passes eight to zero. Mr. Hawkins. Next item. Mr. mayors, an ordinance to accept and adopt chapter 8.82 of the municipal code regarding the use and operation of motorized ecooters and scooters share programs within the city of Conway. Troy so eloquently brought that to us a little earlier and he's coming back up. Wants to tell us something else. Have anything else to say? I was just instructed to come up. I thought you had something else. Nothing else to say. All right. Very good. We have an ordinance to read. It's ordinance 02606. I'll take a motion. So moved. Second.

I have a motion and a second to approve this ordinance for the adoption of e scooters and scooter share programs for the city of Conway. Any further discussion? It's heard. Mr. Lead Better. Yes. Mr. Grimes. Mr. Hawkins. Yes. Mr. Jones. Yes. Miss Mill. Hi. Missy. Yes. Mr. Hawks. Mr. Spurs. Hi. That passes eight to zero. Thank you, Troy. Mr. Hawkins. Next item. Mr. Mayor is an ordinance to reszone property at 3910 and 3920 Tyler Street. It presently is zoned A1. The requested zoning is R2. This was held in committee at our meeting on January 13th of this year. And uh Hi Ann. Hi.

You're going to show your new stuff that you've got tonight with you. Well, I was going to I brought visual aids and everything and it's not working. So, man, I'm just going to have to talk, I and and had a $149 pointer that you got from Dollar General and show it off tonight. I was going to point at things with it. I appreciate you using money. Yeah,

maybe next time. So, this is You guys heard this at your last meeting. Um, Mr. Germaine Orur is wanting to reszone property located at 3910 and 3920 Tyler Street. And um there's not a whole lot to say about it unless Mr. Orura wants to come up and I'll be happy to answer any questions. Um I think that I had to clarify for Mr. Lead Better after the last one. I said that um Penny Street was going to terminate. Penny Street is not going to terminate. They're going to do a little bridge at where it terminates now and extend it on into the development. council. Any questions of the uh owner of the property or Miss Tucker? You can come on. You can come on up and introduce yourself. I I know you, but you can introduce yourself to everybody else. [laughter] Our city of Conway live in Conway, Arkansas. Uh just looking for reszoning of 3920 uh Tyler and 3910 to uh from A1 to R2 to to develop single family homes. [clears throat] Max lot's looking like we're trying to get eight but probably going to get seven out of it but we're just trying to get the redevelopment and pass in the early commission. Just trying to get it going here.

Re this is just a resone. We we're going to replat and everything. Make a motion for adoption of the ordinance. Second. Have a motion and a second to adopt this ordinance. uh to reszone property located at 3910 and 3920 Title Street from A1 to R2. Any further discussion? Missurd? Mr. Hawks? Yes. Mr. Jones? Yes. Miss Mill? Hi. Mr. Hawkins. Yes. Mr. Grimes. Hi. Mr. Sturggers. Hi. Mr. Led Better. Yes. Miss Isby. Yes. That passes 8 to zero. Mr. Hawkins.

Next item. Mr. Mayor's an ordinance to reszone property at 2125 College Avenue that presently is zoned 03. The requested zoning is a C2, Miss Tucker. And how'd that conversation go with the planning commission?

The conversation went perfectly at the planning commission. There was no opposition to it. Um it passed unanimously. And um again, I wish I had my visuals here because I could be pointing at stuff. Um, but I'm I'm sure you guys drive by it every day and it it is zoned 03 right now. But, um, the applicant came to us and sort of we we have some different ideas about what might could go there. As you know, it's right in the middle of all the fraternity and sorority houses. So, we're thinking coffee shop, of course, and um possibly his lawn. They're not entirely sure, but they wanted to open it up um to more possibilities to be attractive to to leis.

Would a C2 house a convenience store or is that going to be a little more a drive-thru would have to have a conditional use? And and again, if they if they put something in there that requires a conditional use, that's a whole separate thing that we'd have to bring before you. But um but it it does open it up for a lot more by right than 03 does. That's um very good. Thank you. Any questions for Miss Tucker? Ordinance number is 02608. I'll take a motion. So moved. Second.

Have a motion and a second to resone property located at 2125 College Avenue from 03 to C2. Any further discussion? Missurd. Mr. Hawkins. Yes. Mr. Lead Better. He stepped away. Mr. Jones. Yes. Mr. Grimes. Hi. Mr. Spurs. Hi. Mr. Hawks. Yes. Missby? Yes. Miss Mill? Hi. That passes seven to zero. Mr. Hawkins. Last item here, Mr. Mayor, is an ordinance to reszone property at 51 Sutherland Road. It currently is A1 and the requested zoning is an R1. And M. Tucker, what can you tell us about this one at the planning commission level?

Well, I can tell you a whole lot. There was there was a lot of neighbors that were against this. You know, the natural progression progression of reszoning A1 is to R1. Um that is a unique area in that it and if you don't know where Southerntherland Road is, if you if you go to the uh Dave Ward Drive and East German Lane, I always get south and east. [laughter] East German Lane,

Southerntherland is that little road that that sort of cuts through there. And there is a proposed roundabout to be there that will encompass the entrance to Southerntherland as well. So that roundabout is going to encompass all those streets that kind of come there together. Um there are houses down it um nice houses and big lots. The applicant is with the acreage that is there. The math says that he can have something like 180 parcels, 6,000 square foot lots for R1. The topography, the drainage, the all the things that that go into it, he's likely not going to get more than 96. So he's it they won't be as large a lots as the neighbors out there would like for them to be, but they will be probably larger than a standard R1.

This is about a 30 acre piece of propert. Yes, sir. And we're still working on the the layout because we have to accommodate the drainage and all that kind of stuff. and that is running in SDR kind of as not concurrent with this, but it's already in the works. We just don't have it defined. It's due to go to the planning commission on the 17th. Were the neighbors on across the street across Middle Road? Were they the ones that were complaining?

It was mostly people that live on Southerntherland, but there there were some that were just kind of in the outlying areas. But you that there is such a mix of of uh zones out there. There's even some industrial. There's MF2. I I can tell you exactly. There's it on the map. Yeah. Yes. There's there's intermediate industrial, multif family, agricultural, single. There's even a PUB out there. So, there's there's quite a mix. And I mean, the natural progression, like I said, is usually A1. So, we normally don't turn down R1 request. Not typically.

Not typically. And I I understand they're concerned that they all have houses on large tracks of land, but that's not not everybody can do that. Not everybody can afford that to have a twoacre track. Yeah. And that's an old area there that's going to be redeveloped as well. And Ann, you Miss Tucker, you mentioned a roundabout somewhere in there. And so will we have to pay for the roundabout or will they pay for the roundabout?

No, it it has nothing to do with this development. I was just kind of throwing that out there. I think this is an ARDOT thing that Kurt could probably talk about more than I could. I just know that there's one proposed for like it's Mayor Lane South German. Yeah. The other end. No, where Dave Dave wor where it turns to go to Com. It is a weird area and there is a No, I was thinking you were Yeah. No, I think I think this is that's going to be more of an AROT issue and y'all voted seven to nothing to approve it to approve it. There was there was but there was some conversation

conversation about it, but they did ultimately approve it. Wait, you they persuaded y'all to vote this way or you persuaded them to vote this way? I didn't say a word. [laughter] No, there was I there I would say that there was probably five people that that spoke against it and they were mostly all neighbors or people that had a stake in what was going on out that way. Any other questions? We have a motion yet, Missurd. N we don't have a motion yet. I'd take one if Anybody else want to speak? I was going to say I was going to ask is anyone

is anyone out there that would like to I know the applicant is here. Is there anyone here that would like to speak for or against this before it comes back to council? Mr. Hawkins, back to you. I don't see anybody, Mr. Mayor. Make a motion. Second. Have a motion and a second to adopt this. Ordinance is a resone property located at 51 Southerntherland Road from A1 to R1. Any further discussion? 02609. Miss Mel. Hi. Mr. Le Better. Yes. Mr. Grimes. Hi. Mr. Hawks. Yes. Mr. Spurs. Hi. Mr. Hawkins. Yes. Mr. Jones. Yes.

Missy. Yes, that passes 8 to zero. Thank you, Miss Tutter. Or did I skip one? No, no, it should be 09. Must have been sleeping. Yeah. Thank you, Mr. Tucker. Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. Thank you. You're welcome. Next up, we have public safety. We have the police chief here to consideration to approve the removal and disposal of inventory it for the Conway Police Department, Chief Harris. Hey, so good evening. We're just asking to remove the attached IT equipment from our inventory. Um, it's either outdated or broken equipment. I'll make a motion to approve. Second.

Have a motion and a second to approve this request for Conway Police Department to remove and dispose of inventory. Any further discussion? Can any of this be sold? Yes, sir. Just the ones that are just outdated, but the other ones. Thank you. Missurd. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? That passes eight to zero. Next is consideration to approve the removal and disposal of inventory SWAT weapons. You can just drop those off at my house uh for the Conway Police Department.

Oh, we can't. So, some most of these are are three of the boltaction rifles. They're they're just several that are just aging and unreliable. We've had them out of service now for about seven plus years. Um, and the last one, the last rifle, it's just having problems and it's we've had that for since about 2015. But if approved, we'll uh got into a agreement with Greybeard Ammo that will take this. They'll give us a credit and then we can get one or two new rifles and it doesn't cost the city anything. Yeah. Council, back to you. Make a motion for approval. Second.

Have a motion and a second to approve uh the removal and disposal of inventory SWAT weapons for the Conway Police Department. Any further discussion? Missurd. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Passes eight to zero. And I think this is the last item. Nope. Got two more. Couple more. Uh ordinance appropriating reimbursement funds from various entities for the Conway Police Department. Chief. Yes. We're just requesting that these funds be reallocated to their appropriate accounts. So most of it is extra duty services. [snorts and clears throat] 10. Missurd. Yes. Yes. Number 10. Make a motion for the adoption of ordinance 025-10. Second. Second. I

have a motion in a second to adopt this ordinance appropriating reimbursement funds from various entities for the Conway Police Department. Any further discussion? Missurd. Missby? Yes. Mr. Le Better. Mr. Jones. Yes. Miss Mill. Hi. Mr. Hawks. Yes. Mr. Grimes. Mr. Spurs. Hi. Mr. Hawkins. Yes. That passes 8 to zero. Finally, uh finally last item is ordinance appropriating asset for forfeite funds for the Conway Police Department chief.

So on this item, the request to use appropriate to appropriate asset forfeite funds just for two purposes. One, our multi-purpose room. Um we need to update the audiovisisual equipment. It was first installed when we built the police department. So it's time to update that and and get that up to speed. And the second one is to uh for our taser equipment and service contract. Um this is this is on us. Usually this is a budgeted item, but it got overlooked. And so instead of coming back to the the city and asking for that money, we'll just use asset forfeite to get that covered. It's okay to go and say go ahead and say I cut it. I'm you know that's just it just happened. No, this one wasn't on you.

All right. Make a motion for the adoption of the ordinance 02611. Second. Have an ordinance. I'm sorry. Motion and a second to adopt this ordinance appropriating asset porch for fund forfeiture funds for the Conway Police Department. Any further discussion? [clears throat] Missurd. Mr. Jones. Yes. Miss Mill. I. Mr. Hawkins. Yes. Mr. Grimes. Hi. Mr. Spurgers. Hi. Missby. Yes. Mr. Lead Better. Yes. Mr. Hawks.

That passes eight to zero. Council, that's all we have tonight. I do have a couple of announcements. Um, with the recent passage of the sales tax, I have asked Chief Led Better, or I'm sorry, Councilman Led Better to serve uh on uh as a re representative from the city council to work with the fire department to help them establish timelines and goals. And I've asked Mr. Jones to do the same with with the police department. uh because there are some timelines are going to have to be established uh on these timelines and goals for what? Police and fire expend equipment and cap capital outlay. Thank you.

Yeah, capital outlay. Uh and I know I know this is going to excite uh Kurt and Jacob, but I'm I'm going to keep police I'm going to keep street departments. I couldn't I couldn't let you guys think I was just throwing you aside. So anyway, I wanted I appreciate you two gentlemen agreeing to serve on that council. That's all we have. Uh, we do have a committee meeting February 24th. It will be the state of the city. Uh, we'll plan on starting at 5:30. If we need a little more time, we we'll change that. But I meant to do this back in January, but we got snowed out. So, but with that, I will take a motion to adjurnn. So, move. Yes, ma'am. Oh.