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Fayetteville staff preview franchise-fee fund to secure homelessness funding, authorize contract for five tiny homes
Summary
At an agenda session, staff previewed a resolution to create a franchise‑fee special revenue fund and a linked allocation contingent on a Salvation Army ESG award, and introduced a proposed $150,000 contract (plus $15,000 contingency) with New Beginnings to add five tiny-home shelters.
Fayetteville officials at an agenda session previewed measures designed to protect and allocate franchise‑fee revenue for homelessness initiatives and to authorize funding for a nonprofit to expand tiny-home shelter capacity.
City staff proposed creating a franchise‑fee special revenue fund so payments from utilities and other franchise holders would be segregated from the general fund. Kent, the city attorney, told the council the distinction matters for legal protection: “I recommended you do a franchise fee because the constitutional amendment ... treats franchise fees differently and, therefore,…
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