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Hot Springs city manager announces hires, retirement, neighborhood clean sweep and community events
Summary
City Manager Bill Burrow announced two new hires, the retirement of Hot Springs Police Captain Lisa King, a citywide Operation Clean Sweep Oct. 6–24 covering about 530 addresses, and several community events including an employee banquet and a Tykes, Trikes & Trails event.
City Manager Bill Burrow used his Sept. 16 report to announce personnel changes, neighborhood cleanup operations and upcoming community events in Hot Springs.
Burrow said Ezekiel Gonzalez has joined utilities water production as a plant operator and Kaysha (Kasia) Ganske will begin as assistant finance director on Sept. 22. He also announced that Hot Springs Police Department Captain Lisa King will retire Sept. 30; a retirement reception is planned Sept. 26 at the Hot Springs Police Department.
Burrow described Operation Clean Sweep — a final 2025 cleanup — scheduled for Monday, Oct. 6 through Friday, Oct. 24. He said the program will cover about 530 addresses between Summer Street and the airport property, from the railroad tracks south to Emory. Burrow outlined the three-week schedule: neighborhood services will do door-to-door outreach the first week and leave information if homeowners are absent; the second week crews will collect curbside items free of charge using large equipment; the third week neighborhood inspection teams will revisit to check for compliance. The Hot Springs Police Department will increase patrols focused on drug activity in the area, and animal services and the street department will assist with animal issues and street sweeping.
Burrow also announced an employee appreciation banquet on Sept. 23 at 5:30 p.m. at 132 Abbott Place to honor service milestones, an outdoor classroom dedication at the Hot Springs Creek Trail near Hollywood Park (which Burrow said included support from Civitan and Arvest), and a fall Tykes, Trikes & Trails event on Saturday, Sept. 27 from 10 a.m. to noon at Velocity Park, 325 Valley Street. He asked residents to donate candy for the police department’s annual Boo with a Badge event on Oct. 31 and provided contact information for Officer First Class Omar Cervantes for donations.
Burrow also updated projects at Hot Springs Memorial Airport — Taxiway A, B and C shift Phase 1 and Runway 5-23 rehabilitation are underway — and described a Square 1 Enterprises contract to replace a 1,400-foot, 16-inch cast-iron pipe on Exchange Street that will require brief parking-deck closures during a tie-in. He said the 2025 pay paving project is about 92% complete, with 14.96 miles finished and a few longer streets still to be done. Burrow noted the new water treatment building — the "water barn" — is on schedule and expected to be operational around the end of the year or early January.
All items were presented as informational in the city manager’s report; no formal board action was taken at the meeting on these announcements.
