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Board approves consent agenda, multiple zoning developments and schedules budget presentation
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Summary
The Little Rock City Board approved the consent agenda of contracts and property actions, advanced and adopted several planned zoning developments (PCD/PDR), and confirmed a budget presentation next week with department directors available for questions.
At its Nov. 18 meeting the Little Rock City Board approved a multi-item consent agenda and advanced several zoning and procurement ordinances through readings.
The consent agenda included: acceptance of a property donation at 16 Mansfield Drive for neighborhood revitalization; transfer of title to Latasha Stanback; an amended agreement with Jackson Brown, Pollock Architects increasing design services by $284,765 to a total of $441,740; contract renewals and purchases including Promos LLC ($368,541) for firewall support; Landscape Structures Inc. ($96,775.65 plus an 18.8% contingency) for playground equipment at Southside Park; Houston Casualty Company ($80,000) for cyber liability insurance; Shea International ($65,433.50) for BeyondTrust subscription renewal; Infotech Research Group ($284,904.93) for IT research and advisory services; and a one-year Pure Storage 100-terabyte data storage purchase ($77,524.75).
The board also moved grouped ordinances for planned developments including Hunsicker PCD (600 North Tyler Street), Wyatt PDR (2802 and 2804 Marshall Street), A and S Rental Properties PDC (2910 Broadway Street), Chaney PDC (1919 West 21st Street), and Parish Jewelry Store PDC (8505 Gower/Grier Springs Road). Item 17 (Ray's PCD at 9200 Chico Road) was advanced through first, second and third readings and adopted during the meeting.
City Manager and staff told directors the upcoming budget presentation (next Tuesday) will be a staff presentation by the CFO with department directors available; the city is not providing an ordinance for a budget vote at that meeting but will present numbers for review as part of the process.
Votes: The consent agenda and the listed ordinance readings passed; emergency clause for the Clinton Pedestrian Bridge sole-source contract was adopted during the meeting.
Next steps: Staff will present the budget proposal for review in the scheduled presentation; adopted contracts and ordinances will move to implementation steps described in contract documents.
