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Mayor Kopenhaver asks committee to form task force to study 911 center and police services location
Summary
Mayor Kopenhaver asked the Public Safety Council Committee to form a multi-committee task force to study possible sites for a consolidated 911 center and future police services, assigning Councilman Emmerson to lead and asking Mayor Pro Tem Chris Moore to participate.
Mayor Kopenhaver told the Jonesboro Public Safety Council Committee that the city should form a task force to study where to locate future police services and a consolidated 911 center and asked that committee chairs from finance, public safety, public services and public works participate in the review.
Kopenhaver said he has asked Councilman Emmerson to lead the task force and asked Mayor Pro Tem Chris Moore to serve with the administration. The mayor said he favors a transparent, cross-committee review and recommended involving economic-development experts, engineers and public-safety professionals. He listed multiple site options that staff and committee members should study, including Caraway Road and downtown, and said an expedited timeline was needed to reach a recommendation.
Councilman Emmerson responded that the task force plans to set a meeting within the next two weeks to meet the mayor's expedited request. The mayor characterized the need for a 911 center as "simply inarguable," but no formal site decision was made; the item was presented as a request to form a study task force, not as a council action adopting a location.
The committee did not take a formal vote to create the task force during this meeting; the record shows the mayor asking for the study and naming members and a timeline, and committee leaders agreeing to convene.
