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Board approves consent package including mowing contracts, wetlands plan and VMware support agreement
Summary
The board adopted the consent agenda, authorizing multiple contracts and resolutions: right‑of‑way mowing, overhead door repairs, a wetlands management plan, a drainage improvement contract, marathon supplies, a sustainability plan adoption, land transactions for port authority use and an enterprise VMware license agreement.
The City of Little Rock Board of Directors on Sept. 2 approved the consent agenda, authorizing a series of contracts and resolutions covering maintenance services, capital projects and administrative actions.
Items read into the record included authorizations for: overhead door repairs with Royal Overhead Door Inc.; a contract with Hope Lawn Care not to exceed $138,772.20 for Phase 1 right‑of‑way mowing and trimming in Wards 1 and 2; a drainage improvement project for East 30th Street with Redstone Construction Group (amount in the clerk’s reading was unclear in the transcript); a wetlands management plan with Alliance Technical Group for $181,500 for the Four Mile Creek watershed; procurement of finishers’ items for the Little Rock Marathon (amount for vendor listed as $50,984.75 in the record); adoption of a 2025 sustainability action plan; purchase of approximately 75 acres from Kenneth Ray Coker Revocable Trust for Little Rock Port Authority economic recruitment purposes; a conveyance of approximately 100 acres to the Federal Aviation Administration for siting a Voorhe Cone facility (as read in the record); setting a Sept. 16, 2025 hearing on an appeal regarding a conditional‑use permit for manufactured homes in an R‑2 zone; and a five‑year enterprise license agreement with SHI Inc. for VMware service, support and licensing not to exceed $590,362.55 plus taxes and fees.
The clerk concluded the consent reading and the board voted to adopt the consent agenda; the transcript records the vote outcome as "Ayes have it." No separate discussion or requests for removal of consent items were recorded in the public transcript.
Why it matters: the approvals fund and authorize maintenance and capital projects, a wetlands study, small procurement for a city event and a multi‑year software licensing agreement. Some procurement amounts and wording in the clerk’s reading appeared garbled in the transcript and should be confirmed against the official ordinance/resolution documents for exact figures and contract language.
