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Residents press city for ditch maintenance and Hyman Park master plan; city workers ask board to review pay
Summary
Public commenters at the Oct. 6 Little Rock board meeting urged the city to address long-standing ditch maintenance and flooding hazards, asked that Hyman Park’s master plan preserve existing facilities, and a city employee described findings of an independent compensation study that city workers are underpaid.
During citizens communications at the Oct. 6 meeting, several residents and an employee raised maintenance, park planning and compensation issues.
Marie Walker and Valerie Smith Marks described persistent problems with an unmaintained ditch behind homes on Independence Lane and Valley Drive. Walker said she has submitted repeated 311 requests since 2016 without sustained maintenance, reported sightings of snakes (including copperheads), erosion and debris blocking waterways, and said the…
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