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Votes and key details

- Resolution 25I29 — Appointment: Dwight Harshaw to the Pulaski County Board of Equalization, three‑year term to expire May 2028. Motion moved by Justice Massey. Vote: 15 ayes, 0 nays. Outcome: approved.

- Ordinance 25I30 — Amend 2025 annual budget to appropriate grant funds for the 8th and 10th Division Circuit Courts (AOC court improvement program, CIP grants). Motion moved by Justice Person. Vote: 15 ayes, 0 nays. Outcome: approved.

- Ordinance 25I31 — Amend 2025 annual budget to recognize and appropriate AOC Justice Assistance Grant funds for the 8th and 10th Division Circuit Courts. Motion moved by Justice Massey. Vote: 15 ayes, 0 nays. Outcome: approved.

- Ordinance 25I32 — Amend 2025 annual budget to appropriate contingency funds (Fund 18‑07) for one‑time expenses in the prosecuting attorney’s office. Motion moved by Justice Stowers. Vote: 15 ayes, 0 nays. Outcome: approved.

- Ordinance 25I33 — Technical corrections to Pulaski County personnel policy for applicant tracking system vacancy announcements. Motion moved by Justice Robinson. Vote: 15 ayes, 0 nays. Outcome: approved.

- Ordinance 25I34 — Amend 2025 annual budget to recognize and appropriate reimbursement funds for the crisis stabilization unit. Motion moved by Justice Robinson. Vote: 15 ayes, 0 nays. Outcome: approved.

- Ordinance 25I35 — Amend 2025 annual budget to recognize and appropriate Act 442911 rule enhancement grant funds for the Office of Emergency Management. Motion moved by Justice Davis. Vote: 15 ayes, 0 nays. Outcome: approved.

- Ordinance 25I36 — Amend personnel policy to create exemptions for hiring critical public‑safety positions. Motion moved by Justice Blackwood. Vote: 14 ayes, 1 abstention. Outcome: approved (one abstention recorded by Justice Robinson).

- Ordinance 25I37 — Amend 2025 annual budget to appropriate contingency funds (Fund 18‑07) for one‑time expenses for the sheriff’s detention and enforcement departments. Motion moved by Justice Massey. Vote: 14 ayes, 1 abstention. Outcome: approved.

- Ordinance 25I38 — Similar appropriation for sheriff’s detention and enforcement departments (separate ordinance). Motion moved by Justice Massey. Vote: 14 ayes, 1 abstention. Outcome: approved.

- Late filing approval — The court accepted a late filing (item not specified in transcript). Motion to approve the late filing passed by roll call: 10 ayes, 4 nays, 1 abstention. Outcome: approved.

- Resolution 25I40 — Authorize Pulaski County Judge to submit application to Arkansas Economic Development Commission for an Arkansas Community Assistance grant; if awarded, the county would provide $300,000 in matching funds. Motion moved by Justice Keith. Vote: 15 ayes, 0 nays. Outcome: approved.

Items with separate coverage

- Ordinance 24I60B — Adoption of countywide land‑use study and plan for unincorporated Pulaski County. Vote: 9 ayes, 6 nays (see separate article).

- Ordinance 25I39 (as amended) — Require a conditional‑use permit before construction or operation of a firing range or other shooting facility in unincorporated Pulaski County. Vote: 13 ayes, 1 no, 1 abstention (see separate article reporting extended debate and public comment).

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The ordinance, introduced by Justice Young Baker and amended on the floor, will require anyone building or operating an outdoor firing range in unincorporated Pulaski County to seek a conditional‑use permit from the county planning body and accept conditions the court or planning board imposes before the facility may operate.

Supporters, including Sherwood Police Chief Jeff Hager, told the court the facility was intended for department training. “This is not something that’s gonna be open to the public. This is going to be for police department use only,” Chief Jeff Hager said, describing annual qualifications and limited weekly hours for Sheriff’s Office and partner training.

Opponents, including residents from the nearby Brushy Island neighborhood and speakers identifying themselves as representing more than 280 households, urged the court to block or delay the project while studies and outreach occur. “If your kids had to hear gunfire every week … you’d feel angry, frustrated, and scared,” said Christina Gully, a Brushy Island resident who addressed the court during public comment.

The ordinance debate focused on two tensions: public‑safety training needs asserted by Sherwood officials and health, noise and environmental concerns raised by neighbors. Arguments for controls referenced the county planning process and the desire to set operating conditions (hours, notice, sound mitigation) through the conditional‑use process. Opponents cited the lack of a sound‑attenuation study, concerns about standing water and wetlands on the site, and potential effects on residents with PTSD and on property values.

Court members also considered process questions. Justice Stowers moved to send the item back to the court’s agenda committee to allow more review; that referral motion failed, 5 ayes to 10 nays. The court earlier adopted the amendment to 25I39 by roll call, 13 ayes, 1 nay and 1 present. After public comment and additional discussion by justices, the court called the question and adopted 25I39 as amended, 13 ayes, 1 no, 1 abstention.

Participants described planning and mitigation measures that have been incorporated or proposed: the range’s firing berm has been constructed to about 30–35 feet tall (described by project representatives as larger than berms used in other municipal ranges), the range is oriented away from the nearest houses toward a former dump, and Sherwood officials said they plan limited weekly day hours for normal use and a single annual night qualification (they described night qualification as typically ending by about 8–9 p.m.). Project representatives said the city purchased the property “a couple of years ago” and that the facility was included in permit plans submitted earlier in the process.

The court’s action does not, by its text, retroactively alter existing building permits; instead, it requires a conditional‑use review before operation of new firing ranges or shooting facilities in the unincorporated county. County counsel confirmed on the record that construction already underway would not be automatically halted by the ordinance; rather, the conditional‑use process will govern operation and operating conditions going forward.

Next steps: the ordinance takes effect according to the county’s normal ordinance rules; it will require affected parties to pursue a conditional‑use permit and any associated planning board process before an outdoor firing range may operate in unincorporated Pulaski County.

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The ordinance, presented for a third and final reading, endorses the land‑use study and plan for the county’s unincorporated areas. Supporters said the plan provides countywide findings and a framework for managing residential development and growth in unincorporated areas.

Justice Stowers, representing District 13, spoke at length in opposition. “The majority of District 13 … choose to live out in the country … in order to have more freedom, not less, particularly as it relates to what they can and they can’t do with the property,” Stowers said, reading and quoting language from the land‑use study noting resistance to additional regulation in the county’s north quadrant. He said his vote reflected the consensus he heard from roughly 27,000 constituents in his district.

Other justices voiced support for the plan’s role in addressing residential growth and in guiding future decisions. The court then called the roll; the clerk recorded 9 ayes and 6 nays. The adoption formalizes the study’s findings for the county but does not itself create new regulatory penalties; it signals the court’s policy direction for future planning work.

The item drew particular attention because it affects unincorporated, largely rural areas where some property owners objected to what they described as government planning of private property. The land‑use study itself, cited in debate, acknowledged resistance in parts of the county to additional regulations.

Following the vote, the court moved on to other business on the agenda.

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